Utah Enquirer | 1889-07-02 | Page 4 | The Divine Plan of Creation

the divine to me individually it has always appeared that a false issue is raised when opponents of darwinism make their appeal to tho odium theolog icum for although it is quite true that the theory of natural selection is incompatible with that of supernatural design in those cruder forms which it necessarily presented under a belief in special creation I 1 do not see that such is the case with regard to any hypothesis of teleology tete which deserves to be regarded as in any way worthy of those higher conceptions of theism which the growth of natural science in all its parts has been the means of engendering it is true are now required enormously to widen their ideas touching the nature and the method of superhuman design in the realm of organic nature just as was the case when astronomy first revealed the utter inadequacy of previous ideas touching the realm of inorganic nature but I 1 cannot see that in the former any more than in the latter case those who on other grounds chave accepted the theory of theism should find any reasonable cause for alarm in being required to extend immeasurably their conceptions of the divinity and I 1 am quite sure that they would be committing the gravest of possible mistakes if they were to adopt the advice which appears to be given them in the words with which I 1 will conclude no wonder that darwin was reviled by men who had the cause of religion at heart for his theory tended not only to repudiate creation but to discredit design aud so practically to enthrone unreason as lord of the universe trot geo eo manes in the july forum