Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-15
EVOLUTION or MAN.

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is reported to have said
echrlstlan theology has had for its
chief cornerstone the idea that man
was ereated sinless and by his iall III
Adam involved the whole race Ia moral
rain. But SCIENCE has proved that
such a theory has no more basis III
fact than the widest tale of the Arab
ian Nights.
thirty years new field of investiga-
ton and discovery has been opened
and explored by men of science. II Is
the field of anthropology, of the habits
and thoughts OF the mind OF man as
II began to awaken to self-conscions-
ness I'm this world Slowly and with
Infinite pains that field has been ana
Is being cultivated. And we are md
ing that no single element In the make
up of man was given him ready made.
All is the product Of environment and
heredity and the selection which these
forces have exercised
Now, what Mr.. Brown hero maintains
Is a matter of opinion. II cannot cor
rectIy be said that science has DEM
onstrated as facts any Of the things
he mentions The most that can be
said, with accuracy and candor, is
that science has Indicated that some
contends are. possibly, true.
Certainly there is as much scientific
reason to suppose that the savage and
barbarous races or peoples. whether of
ancient or of modern times were fallen.
rather than merely immature races. It
is sin rather than Innocence that char
acterlzes many OF their courses OF con-
duct
The statement that every attribute
manifested by man today lis the pro-
duct OF environment and heredIty, and
the selection which these forces have
exercised naturally suggests: "a that
before any selection Is made there
must be some one, some power, some
intellect, capable of doing the select
ing; and % that all the faculties that
man now possesses must have been his
before they began TO be improved by
environment and selection That
something Mr.. Brown seems to include
In the word "heredity," But IL we
understand this word Alright. It's use
comedies all that the believer In the
Bible would need IN order TO mega
tive the implication of the Unitarian
minister's argument.
For II IL be true that mans body
was prepared as O building for the soul
TO dwell IN, and even II we go to the
extreme of accepting for the moment
that the Advise Creator took for tho
process of mans creation the devel-
opment of his body from certain lower
forms, still it remains true that man
IS the goal to which natures entire Of
fort from the beginning has been d.
rected. Indeed the evolutionary SUD-
position OF the creation" OF mans
body causes us 10 perceive that IL IL
Is true. then all nature before man
appeared had been striving with might
and main to produce man, and that
Il is therefore impossible on this earth,
given tho present and past living forms
out of which mans body may be sup
posed To have ovolved-it Is impossi-
bic, we say, to suppose that any be-
Ing zoologlcally distinct from man
could have been or ever could be
evolved. II follows that no form OF
body distinct from and superior Ia
mans could now be created and Tint
The Improvement of man himself Is the
only course left open to nature. Not
any oraiurc, then. higher than man
OF No1i2gleallS dfrerent from him can
now be produced without beginning the
entire creation anew ana starting with
other forms and possibilities. This ain,
--the perfection of man himself--is az
much the conclusion OF evolution as Il
Is the object of religion and the ain
OF the seriptural plan of redemption.
According, then TO both evolution
and revelation, ever since the dawn
Ing of life on this globe. the whole ere
alton has been grooming and travail
Ing (see Romans. s: d-29) to bring fortl
that last consummate specimen of God
handiwork-man.
God created man out OF the dust O
the earth. How He did this has no
been revealed II is possible even a,
the evolutionist believes, though n
cannot prove II as yet, that this crea
ton WAS effected by means OF a serle
Of evolu;ions and improvements of ia
animal body, until at last one 40
pesrcd, from which, with oertaIl
changes tho true human body nigh
be fashioned or evolved, However tina
may b'f anu Htltnct ~ sun Bruuinl
and trying TO feel ~ way Just here
the next act was the important on,
After God had created man (by wha
means We are not todd, the Create
"breathed into his nostrlls the breat
OF life, ana man became a living soul.
Here was a work OF God distinct fror
creation--a work we may call inearna
tlon. Physical man may DO simply
creation evolutionary or otherwise "
the spirit or soul OF man is not N
creature. but the child Of God who
thus the father OF the spirits OF a
men a John 3; 2, 81.
No doubt The Improvement OF men
20 go on TN Il eliminates IN this man
Hesitation as the sons OF God Tn
Is undoubtedly the GOAL TO which a
nature history and human eXperien,
are tending-the gradual creation Z
man In the image OF God. The mas
OF God IN man is being gradually mad
plain. Nan may well believe himse
70 !. IN the image OF God upon III
very theory urged by The eyolutionist'
that he Is the object for whom N
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