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Show 'SCIENTIFIC THEORIES ! Catholic Church Encourages Science Anti - Christian Theories Condemned Darwin's Unverified Hyothesis No j New Species Developed Physicists Oppose Geologists as to the Age of the Universe Proof Lord Kelvin on Age of Sun Agnes M. Clerke's on Composition Compo-sition of Sun A Globe Riddled by Convection Con-vection Currents Earthquakes. Ogden. Utah, June 27, 190S. JViit'ir Imermountain Catholic: Sir It is often said that as science advances and mysteries of nature are unraveled, belief in ihe Christian teachings will be impossible, and for ihi reason the Catholic church is opposed to s'ienco. fearing its results. And while it is common com-mon to meet men acquainted with the writings of Parwin. Spencer. Huxley and others who have expounded ex-pounded tin1 doctrine of evolution, few are met v;h have read such authors asMax Muller, not to sn'i;tinn the numerous Catholic theologians. Indeed, it seems to be little known that the fatli'dio church has greatly encouraged the advancement ad-vancement of science, and that some of the most impnrt:uit discoveries ' were made by her clergy, and today the work carried on at Stonyhurst colter. col-ter. England: Georgetown university, Washington, Washing-ton, find the Vatican, Rome, can be favorably com-' wd with that of any similar institution. So it not the investigation of science that is-condemned, hut the arriving at hasty conclusions, espe-I espe-I ciislly when they seek to make man the product of f ev"luti"n from a monkey, and strike at her very I inundation. I Darwin's theory seems to have found favor with . a great many, and they seem to have accepted it as I a veritable fact, and not as the speculation of a I treat man. who was liable to be mistaken. And v-hile it true that many scientific men like Spen-i Spen-i o;r, Huxley. Henry Drummond and others have Fhared his views, there are others as great in the i TrnrM ef fame who have rejected it, and hold views I diametrically opposed to his, among them Professor Jax duller of Oxford "university and Mr. Alfred I Russell Wallace, the co-discoverer with Darwin of the doctrine of natural selection, who remarks in Li' work. "EMail's Flace in the Universe," that dur-w.s dur-w.s th.j whole human period, while manv species have become extinct, no new species have ap-pearetl. ap-pearetl. The ceologist and palaeontologist in making 'heir calculations arrive at the conclusion that the sur of ;he earth is several hundreds of millions of pari. Xow physicists say that this is impossible, V'rthe life of the sun is not more than from thirty to forty million years, a period said to be inade-;uate inade-;uate for ihe slow process of evolution. And the "te Lord Kelvin, the greatest mathematician and Kiui-t that has ever lived, after .the most care-raleuhitions. care-raleuhitions. said it would be rash to assume the ape of a sun is more than from twenty-five '" uve;;Ty-six million years. And this seems rea-' rea-' f.lle. according to the description of the con-:'u'!.n con-:'u'!.n r.f iho sun given by the late Miss Agnes . Clerk in her work, '"Problems in Astrophy-The Astrophy-The sun is a huge sphere 807,000 miles in '"'"'r. its density is 1.4 times that of water, it iif.-lior olid nor liquid, it is mainly, perhaps en-i.-c.'y.. cr.eotis; but its gaseity is of the "critical'' dun io ihe combination of intense heat with 't'r'rmous pressure. The thermal supplies needed 1!' r-ifr i'- vast emissive expenditure must be con-jjiiually con-jjiiually rapidlv brought from the central parts "' the surfHce. and this can only be accomplished h 'in- ru-tuul transport of the heated materials "nniitne processes being much too slow to meet ijo rXirr, ,,,.lf. f)f tJtuation. It is then a globe i'j'.ln ,J ,,,- rTinvection-currents. the photosphere .!n? thi- -liining cloud-shell limit, where the heat-pi'nn heat-pi'nn r. deliver their cargo of radiative energy, and Mari- again for the unimaginable furnace be-'w. be-'w. avA ;; gravity suffers no waste, the great P oi,f. e(i; T; am each one of its constituent 1o'":ci ij.!js ("iav JV day nearer to the center, so i''it the 1 .-,,. rnISf arrive, when through vicosity, i we urrom: will cease to flow, and its sunlike ae i.-mn.ate. Kv ir.;;iiy astronomers the sun and its planetary ;'l,,ni regarded as unique, for although there rrr' Hi;M:y Mars 0f the same type, only one is re-Ccrlt; re-Ccrlt; i,y sir Davifi Gill as its replica, the brighter I rnpi.tj.-1,1 f,f a Centauri. but this star being a i -n;iry. cxr-ludes it from the possibility of having a .i!f.iary system. Indeed, so impressed is Profes-J1 Profes-J1 ai!i,l,f. (,f the Lick observatorv with this fact in;;! .... rit0!; jn tno Astrophisical Journal: "The i'ovi!, , xi-tonfe of so large a number of stellar ., s--.riri iiffering so widely in structure from the " ar yst-m. gives rise to a suspicion, at least, that "v";ni is not of the prevailing type of stellar (;U The late Miss Agnes M. Clerke was also 1' iiio c;miP opinion, so also Mr. Alfred Russell 'Oiae, whose works on this subject are well known. . Ihii ic, indeed, an age of wonderful progress, j" v'h.fh many an ancient theory has been upset investigation, and therefore a ten-j..n ten-j..n V ' ''iS(Tedit antiquity anH to welcome in the m' progress new theories advanced before they lv'T "r-en thoroughly tested. p,.h'r '-enturies the theories of Plato, Aristotle, ;Vfl!lv Strabo WTre accepted, that earthquakes I Pari faus0 a'r an water penetrating into the I ii'r 1 'rr,u.cn fissures 'and crevices, thus develop-I develop-I ,ir vapor in the heated interior, a part of which is expelled from volcanoes, and that earthquakes are due to the pressure of elastic vapors seeking to diffuse themselves into the atmosphere, whether these vapors break through and form eruptions, or remain hidden in the earth. Then came the theory of the contraction of the earth's crust through cooling, cool-ing, which was readily accepted, and displaced the older theory. Now the eminent Professor T. J. J. Lee in his contribution to the American Philosophy ical society, says that the ancient theories are in their main substance in complete accord with the results of modem scientific investigation. If then there are such contradictions and disagreements dis-agreements among scientific men, is it not wise to be cautious and 'accept only what is proven to be beyond a doubt a fact? for in doing so we will never lose faith, but. on the contrary, be strengthened strength-ened in the truth of our holy religion. TERENCE FARRELLY. |