THE ETHICS OF EVOLUTION.

Northland Age, Volume II, Issue 36, 10 September 1930, Page 2

THE ETHICS OF EVOLUTION.

(Contributed.) “The ethics of the Bible and Christianity, the ethics of the Love and Fatherhood of God, the ethics which -produce the urge in the human breast for a higher and holier life, and beget in mankind those noble aspirations, the attainment of which brings him into fellowship with the Divine—-these are the principles which are countered and destroyed by the theory of evolution, with its representation of that ignoble origin of man in the jungle among the wild beasts of prey, rising to his present greatness upon the mutilated carcases of his fellows, by the application of those ethics enunciated by Darwin in the words, ‘Let the strongest live and the weakest die.”

The foregoing is from the address of Evangelist Anderson in the Library Hall on Sunday night' of last week. The evangelist dealt only with the ethical aspect of evolution, and did not concern himself to prove his propositions from a scientific standpoint, reserving that as he said, for a future discourse. It was better, he said, to look up than to look down. In climbing to a great height it was most dangerous to look down. The Bible account of the origin of man, teaching us that our present condition was the result ot a disastrous “fall”, and holding before us the ladder of progress back to God, constituted an upward look, but the whole view of the origin of man in evolution was downward only. “It evolution be true,” said Mr. Anderson, “there has never been a fall, sin is not a heinous crime, but rather an uplifting influence, and the Son of God therefore came to remove that upon which the elevation of humanity depends.” The ethical effect of evolution was summed up in the words Romanes, “When at times I think of the hallowed glory of that creed that once was mine, and the lonely mystery of existence as now I find it —at such times I shall ever feel it impossible to avoid the sharpest pang of which my nature is susceptible.”