EVOLUTION IN SCHOOLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 142, 18 June 1929, Page 6

EVOLUTION IN SCHOOLS.

I must again repudiate Mr. E. S. Dukes' assertion that I have "admitted" that evolution is not Darwinism. I know that evolution is not Darwinism and have said so more than once. The Churches as a whole have 110 antipathy to evolution or to Darwinism, hut the Fundamentalists are irreconcilably hostile to Darwinism and to every other theory of evolution. Why does Mr. Dukes persist in stating that Mr. McCabe is not an atheist? Mr. McCabe is an avowed atheist. For years he has been waging war both against Christianity and Theism. He makes 110 attempt to conceal the fact that he stands for the atheistic interpretation of evolution. He would laugh at Mr. Dukes' assertion that "to talk of evolution necessitates the idea of a Creator." He holds that evolution removes the necessity for a Creator. As I have already asserted, I personally have 110 objection to the teaching of evolution in our State schools provided that such teaching is not given an anti-Christian bias, but I still state that to force the teaching of evolution on the children of Fundamentalists and to tax Fundamentalists for the propagation of a doctrine which contradicts an essential article of their creed, violates the principle that the State ought to be neutral iu religious matters. NORMAN' BURTON".