SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20070, 6 October 1928, Page 13

SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

THEORY OF EVOLUTION. VIEW OF DEANI INGE. SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH. ADDRESSES TO CHURCHMEN. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received October 5, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 4. In tho course of a speech at the Church Congress the Dean ol! St. Paul's, Dr. W. It. Inge, said: "1 see nothing in evolution which conflicts with a belief in creation. Wo must not defy the principle of evolution. There are those who think time alone will bring in the Golden Age, but (he devil replies: 'I am evolving too.' " The idea of the evolution of the whole universe is contradicted by what wo know of astronomy. I belief that tho chief revelation which God has granted this generation has been through the natural sciences. If we denounce science we do so at tho peril of . grieving the spirit of truth. " Evolution is only a mothod by which God carries out Ilis purpose in the world." The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. E. W. Barnes, followed Dr. Inge. He said: Owing to humanity's ancestral history there is a tendency to attach an exaggerated importance to tho so-called laws of Nature. Personally, I findi plain evidence of purpose in the prolonged development of lifo upon tho earth, which culminated in the creation of man. A'belief in the survival of human personality after bodily death is bound up in our conception of the nature of God. If we accept Christ's view we cannot believo that God will allow anything, of value in the universe to be destroyed. " But we cannot' say how man's spirit and personality will be preserved. We must be content with St. Paul s confident hope ihat God will give it a body."