ORIGIN OF MAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16876, 25 October 1920, Page 6

ORIGIN OF MAN.

DIVINE END STILL AHEAD. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, Oct. 23. Canon Baines, in a paper read before the Church Congress at .Southend, declared that systematic scientific observation had practically proved that man was :°ot created by God. “Man,” says Canon Barnes, “is the end of a vast evolutionary process of Divine design. Man is cousin to the apes, his ancestry going hack through the amphibians to fish Such a discovery gives all our speculations a vastly different background to that of the theologians who elaborated the doctrine of the Trinity. Like them we seek to explain God and His redemptive work through Christ, hut we view man as something in the making, not as a once innocent being now marred. Man is struggling not to regain a lost perfection, but to realise a divinely appointed end of the whole terrestrial process. Wo affirm that God is still making man, and still shaping man’s consciousness, which some day will be the image of God himself.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.