EVOLUTION OF THE WORLD.
LECTURE BY SIR- OLIVER. LODGE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Dec 3, 1.15 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 3. Sir Oliver Lodge, lecturing on the evolution of the world, said that to regard the first chapters of Genesis as a scientific fact, or even an attempt at a scientific fact, was an unlettered and illiterate blunder. We must regard them as poetry, or dig out the inner meaning by getting below the superficial skeleton on which they were framed. Some people declared that the process of evolution did not require mind or plan, but they were in opposition to the inspired writing and were not rational in going beyond anything they knew. Things did not come into existence instantaneously, for as a tree grows from the seed and the flower unfolds from the hud, so the process of evolution was gradual and not sudden. Science did not deal with origins, and even poetry had to close its eyes and could only murmur the words: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 December 1925, Page 7
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