EVOLUTION AND RELIGION

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1928, Page 13

EVOLUTION AND RELIGION

COMING OF GOLDEN AGE "THE DEVIL EVOLVES ALSO” DISCUSSION BY CHURCHMEN By Telegraph—Tress Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. Received October 5, 7.5 p.m. London, Oct. 4. ‘SI see nothing in evolution which conflicts with' belief in creation,” said Dean Inge at the einureh congress. “We must not defy the principle of evolution. There are- those who think time alone will bring the'golden age but the devil replies: ‘I am evolving too.’ “The idea of the evolution of the whole Universe is contradicted by what we know -of astronomy,” continued the dean. “I believe the chief revelation God has granted this generation has. been through natural sciences. If we denounce science we do so at the peril of grieving the spirit of truth. Evolution is the Only method whereby God carries Ont hie purpose in the world.” Bishop' Barnes followed. lie said: “Owing to humanity’s ancestral history there is a tendency to attach exaggerated importance to the so-called laws of nature. 1 Personally, I find plain evidence of purpose in the prolonged development of life upon the earth which culminated in the creation of man. Belief in the survival of the human personality after bodily death is bound up in our conception of the . nature of God.

“If We accept Christ's view we cannot believe 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 Saint Paul’s confident hope, that God will give them a body.”