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true Anyhow - Sc non vero. e ben
> trOyato. For nearly nineteen hun
= dred years it has been pet occupa
ton of the Son of the carpenter t,
| prepare collins for those who tried t
destroy his work. For, CHRIST live
: and His Church stands safe and i'm
movable on the rock He built it on.
That stoutest of all conservatives
. Plus X, fatty refuses to initiate Ia
mehameha's high priest, and to max,
bonfire Of the DEGREES of his prede
| Cessors, the acts of the oecumenica
Councils and to throw the Bible in t.
boot. The old Teaetionary he is!
What reasonable man can condemn
him. Why should he give in2 Ha:
he been worsted in the conflict be
tween Religion and Sciences Was
there ever any conflict between these
two branches of knowledge? Never
indeed How could there be any? The
ultimate object, Truth, they have in
common, it is true; but supernatural
truth is Religion s, natural truth
Science S direct object.
The Catholic Church has nothing to
fear of scientific progress; but much
to gain.
But Evolution and Higher Criticism,
did they not clearly demonstrate the
j falsity Of that groundwork Of all re-
| Hgion: the creation of man by God ?
Did the latter Of the two not show
that the Bible is not God s word.
| Everybody talks about evolution );
| the carconductor, the newspaperman,
| the teacher, the sensational minister.
| the drummer, principally the drummer.
| But who of them knows any more
| about the matter than the fact that
some one who is an evolutionist says
| that man is descended from a monkey /?
| Evolution teaches that all the higher
| forms of life, animal and vegetable.
have been derived from the lower
forms by the interaction of natural
! causes; and that the lowest and first
forms of organic life were produced
by the action Of the forces of nature
on inorganic matter. EVOLUTION IS
| NOT SCIENCE. For science is knowl,
edge; science is something that can
be proved. But evolution is a theory;
evolution is guess. "Pela paha;
oale paha.
And the old white Man Of the Vati-
can should give up the dogmas which
Christ has entrusted to his care, which
nineteen centuries have venerated, be-
cause of that guess, entitled: FEThe
Origin of Species. F."
A theory is a means of attaining
knowledge. a theory may become
science. So, f. i. we read in the Sun
day Advertiser of February 21st under
the heading: "Seeing the INVISIBLE
~ An astronomer has expressed the be-
lief that beyond the orbit of the
furthest planet, there is another mem
Der of the solar system. He has not
yet discovered it, Behold scienti-
fic guess, theory. Now the astron-
omer sits down to work; makes white
note paper black with formulas, tries
to get subsidies if his observatory is
lacking them, and has some famous
optician making him a telescope that
beats the Yerkes gigantic looking
tube. He now sees new star, about
in the spot he guessed his planet
ought to Re; he observes that star. its
motion shows it to be a planet. Now
his theory is proven: one more point is
acquired to science
Was the theory of Evolution ever
proven? Astronomers, biologists and
biologists tried their very best to do |
So Haeckel found his protoplasm
somewhere on the bottom of the sea. |
gave it an uncomfortable name and t
laughingstock of himself. !
Lately German Jesuit. Father Wass- /
mann, pretended to have ascertained |
the transmutation of one species into
another: | sincerely hope that the dav
will come that evolution can be proven
In the meantime it remains a coniec
ture.
Let us suppose that this day has
come. Will then Religion s deathbell
ring? viii it not then be proven that
the Book of Genesis is a mere legend?
Not at all. Catholics hold that the
Bible does not teach science, but re-
llglous truth. However if we want to
find by all means scientific cosmogonv
IN IFS first chapters, then it is rather
evolution we shall find there F'Let
the earth bring forth the green herb
80. Let the waters bring forth
the creeping creature having life'' are
commands which rather imply pass
age from inorganic into organic mat
ter.
If the Bible does not oppose evolu-
ton, even less the Church. To teach
tie Gospel she was sent, not to teach
science; she likes however to study the
works of her Master and encourages
her children to do So
But for her, modern science won1d
not be much above the level of that
Of the Asiatie and African nations
Catholics are free to search the secrets
Of nature and to hold whatever scien-
tlfe opinion they feel like.
Just a word on Higher Criticism
which is said to render the old theory
OF inspiration more and more unten-
able Harnaek, than whom there is no
greater authority among Catholic
higher Critics, admits the authenticitv
Of the four Gospels The new LIGHT
which yearly is thrown by modern re-
search on their source and structure. is
heartily welcomed by all those who
love God s written Word. But as
long as no ''errors' are found in the
thus far none were-it
IS impossible to prove that they were