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Show Science and Revelation Darwin's Theories Exploded No Conflict between Science j and Religion Nature, Rightly Interpreted. Harmon-I Harmon-I izes with the Scriptures. j The harmony between religion and I science, which theorizers from time j to time try to disturb, becomes more i evident when certain theories, palmed j j on a credulous age as science, are re-j re-j futed. Between true religion and sci- J ! ence there can be no conflict, as both I enienate from God. There have been j in the past, as well as at the present, j times When the order of creation as J given in Genesis was not only denied, but declared to be impossible. The theories, advanced to disprove that simple narrative.- were received with great enthusiasm and sound of trumpets. trum-pets. Darwin, borne up by Haeckel. claimed that man was the natural descendant de-scendant of the ape. He spent a lifetime life-time in trying to find the missing link. His theory was not only popular but generally accepted by European scientists. scien-tists. It meant progress, and to" oppose progress even when the works of the Creator were to be sacrificed on the altar of. enlightenment, meant superstition super-stition or religious intolerance. When all efforts to find the missing link between be-tween man and thp monkey failed, another an-other generation of scientists had entered en-tered the' field of investigation. The effervescence caused by Darwin's new theories of human life had vanished, and learned men and profound scholars schol-ars examining them on their merits, found that they were not only unten- j able but absolutely absurd. The firt distinguished scholar and scientist, to oppose Darwin's theories waj Professor Virchow. The professor, who was considered con-sidered abreast. of -the timg, iagltt.i-,. entitle questions, and was the leading spirit in all international conventions of European scientists, was for a time, severely censured and criticized because be-cause he would not accept Darwin for his master. With the usual German tenacity, he persevered in his opposition to the end. Now that he is dead European Euro-pean scientists have given him the first place of honor, whilst Darwin and his thsories have been relegated to the domain do-main of unverified and unverifiab'e theories. Dr. E. Dennert, who ranks highest among European natural scientists in an article recently written by him and entitled "At the Deathbed of Darwinism," Darwin-ism," says: ' "Some twenty years ago it was perfectly per-fectly justifiable to . identity the idc;;s of Darwinism and the doc trine of the descent of man, for at that time Darwinism-was the only theory of descent extant.' The few who wculd not accept this could easily be numbered. Oniy occasionally a scholar, such a Wigand, Kolliker, Nageli and a few o:hv. s, dared to raise their voices in protest. No-.v all this has. been changed. Practically all-naturalists now make a sharp distinction dis-tinction between Darwinism and th"; doctrine of descent. A survey of tho field shows that Darwinism in its old form is becoming a matter of history and that we are actually witntsshig- its death-sfruggle "A "fair" c'xamiratioif of th" leading naturalists of the continent justifies the claim -that the dos-ivhie of de-cent or evolution is new generally accepted a demonstrated theory by marly all scientists. ' But, on -the othr hand.' ic cannot be denied that Darwinism, i.i the sense of natural selection by r;!t.-;;r.:--of the struggle for existence, is h; ring crowded to the wall all along the- line. The bulk of modern scientists no long. r recognizes it, and those who have not yet discarded it at any rate regard it as of subordinate importance. In place of this older views have again come into acceptance, which do not deny development,, de-velopment,, but. maintain that this was not a purely mechanical process." Pasteur, who has acquired an enviable envia-ble reputation among the. .medical fra-ternity,-and whose researches have benefited ben-efited humanity, found in all the working work-ing of nature, and the old Biblical account ac-count of .creation the most perfect har- mony. To him the theories of modern materialistic philosophers were so absurd ab-surd that he predicted for them the same fate that has befallen Darwin. Here is how the great b.ictei iologist expresses ex-presses his views of the class referred to. "Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of the modern nuuerialistio philosophers. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the works of the ('teator. I pray while I am engaged en-gaged in my work in the laboratory." It is no objection to Pasteur that he was a Catholic. He was a profound reasoner and practical experimentalist. Professor Virchow, a i ready referred to, did not profess to be a Christian, yet he maintained that Darwin's theories, the-ories, once so popular, were exploded. He found no change ir. man for "..ijiiq years that would justify one to hold that he was evolved from the ape or tadpole. At a convention held at Vienna Vi-enna a short time before his d"ath, when Darwin's theory of extreme evolution evo-lution was discussed, he said: "The attempt to find the transition from animal to man has ended in a total failure. The middle link has not been found and will not be found. Man is not descended from the ape. It has been proved beyond a doubt that during dur-ing the past 5.000 years there has been no noticeable change in mankind." Whatever the future may develop, it is certain that the past has failed to : find any discrepancy between science land rtvelation. Those who come with fa-ffouV-ish .aid" Mdim'to 'h'ave'nia'de'Voiiiir""'' A ' I discovery conflicting with revelation, as a rule see their theories, advanced ' in the name of science, exploded before they (authors) have time to indulge their conceit and vanity. They teli in advance that no door is too sacred for modern investigation, but all investigation investi-gation so far consists in an attempt to j put revelation on the defense by ask- I ing its votaries to harmonize its teach- ing with their supposed new discover- j ies. Revelation is in possession, and I when a supposed coniiict exists, the I burden cf proof rests or. the theorizers, who are sailing under the pinions of ! science. j The discovery that the world was ! more than 6.0'JO years old gave an im- petus to infidel write is,; who vainly j boasted that the account of creation i given in Genesis was erroneous: that ! Kevehuirn was wrong, and '.bat all re-I re-I ligion founded on the Bible was a su-! su-! perstition. The innovators assumed I for themselves the sole right of inter-! inter-! pre ting the scriptures, in measuring ! titv." they gave the- length of the six days which Omnipotence spt .it in crc-I crc-I atio:i its normal rhr:r.-:ogk-ul va!u-j. ; They played with the credulity of the t public and .with natural sciences, as ' Profess. ..r Uutenicyer, the famous zo-! zo-! o'oglst. said of I lac .!. h-.-- answer-i answer-i ing his defense of Darwin. The closer and more profound be-. be-. comes the study of -nature. th more i p-f feet seems the harmony existing be-jtwee'n be-jtwee'n n end the t-'uered iYriptures. No o: -tuestions the proiVur.d scholarship i of a Tyndall oi a Hu:'t-: and many ! ' 'thers if the same ye ..' oi. or denies -to i Darwin many new. important and in- foresting discoveries in natural .S'-i-jence; but their .-on.-lnsions which make i a conflict, w here there was n me be-! be-! fore, must be proven. The presumj-I presumj-I tion is that the secrets of nature, when j correctly interpreted, cannot fail tu i harmonize with the Scriptures. The ' ",' i higher criticism, of which we read so much, is bringing this fact to light mere and more every day. ( 'id I he-ones are becoming obsolete; tlvir authors, like "the fool who said in his heart ther-j is no God." are shifting their position every year, showing their inconsistency inconsist-ency and insignificance when warring against God. |