CHURCH AND EVOLUTION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9

CHURCH AND EVOLUTION

BELIEF IN CREATION NOTHING CONFLICTING SAYS DEAN INGE { By Telegraph— Per Press Assn. —Copyright ] \ { Australian Pre. a Assn. 1 Received Oct. 5, 10 p.m. * . LONDON, Oct. 4. 4 ‘l see nothing in evolution, which conflicts with the belief in creation,” said Dean Inge at the Church Congress. “We must not defy the principles of evolution. There are those who think that time alone will bring tiie golden age, but the devil replies.”

“The klea of evolution of the whole universe is contradicted by what we know of astronomy. I believe that the chief revelation which God has granted this generation has been through the natural sciences. If we denounce science we do so at the peril of grieving the spirit of truth. Evolution is only the method whereby God carries out his purposes in the world. ’’

Bishop Barnes followed. He said: ‘ 1 Owing to humanity’s ancestral history. there is a tendency to attach exaggerated importance to the so-called laws of nature. Personally I find plain evidence of purpose in the prolonged development of life upon the earth which culminated in the creation of oian.

“The belief of the survival of auman personality after bodily death, is bound up in our conception of the nature of God. If we accept Christ’s view we cannit believe that God will allow anything of value in the universe to be destroyed, but we cannot say how man’s >pirit and personality will *be preserved. We must be content with Saint Paul’s confident hope that God will give it body.”