PUBLIC LECTURE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 20 August 1932, Page 19

PUBLIC LECTURE.

+ MR L. W. ItOGERS ON DARWIN. That Darwin's theory of natural selection was not verified by the facts was claimed by Mr L. AY. Rogers, an I American lecturer, who is giving free public lectures under tho auspices of the Christchurch Tlieosdphical Society, when speaking on "Man, a God in,the Making," at the Theosophienl Hall on Thursday evening. i *'Darwin was about half right aua half wrong in his theories, and the fundamentalist is altogether wrong, said the lecturer. "Wo do inherit physical characteristics, but not mental and moral ones. The human being has an animal ancestry on tho material side but a Divine origin on , : the sou' side, and tho lowest type of savages on tho earth will evolve into geniuses in the far spaces of time/' Defining the difference between the fundamentalist and the scientific views, Mr Rogers said : "Ihe one view is that things were originally created what they are now. and that they will thus remain; that a bird, an animal, Cnd a. man have always been what they now are and will Dover be anything different. The other view is that an evolutionary creation has Keen going on for ages; that forms slowly change and life evolves; that the. whole of tho bird creation has evolved from the reptiles; that if our prehistoric past could be known on the form side it would run far back of a humanity without a vestige of civilisation." Mr Rogers will lecture this evening 011 "Self Development and Power,'' and on Sunday evening 011 "Masters of Wisdom and Power."