The Catholic bulletin., 1922-09-16

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TloN SHOWN TO BE uNTENl
BILE FROM VIEWPOINT or OF
/ lGiN OF SPECIES AND Of
/ NATURAL sELEcnoN-cHAF
/ AcTERisTlcs or SPECIES EvEl
| REMAIN SAME.
| Written for The Catholic Bulletin b.
Dr.. William L. J. Griffin.)
The Theory of Evolution is not
new theory. 1t has occupied th
minds of scientific men for genera
| tiOns; from the time of Darwin i
| seems to have taken on new life.
| The celebrated zoologist Owen
states that there is a manifest prog
ress in the succession of beings or
/ the face of the earth. This progress.
consists in an increasing similarity tc
the living fauna, and among the yer
tebrates, especially in their increas
ing resemblance to man. But this
connection is not the consequence oil
a direct lineage between the fauna
OF different ages. The fishes of the
palaeozoic age are in no respect the
ancestors of the reptiles OF the sec
|ondary age, nor does man descend
from the mammals which preceded
him in the tertiary age. The link by
which they are connected is Of a
higher and immaterial nature; and
/ their connection is to be sought in
the plan of the Creator Himself
Lamarck, the distinguished French
biologist, traced back all animal forms
to one primitive form, the product of
a primary act of generation. Hilaire
held that all living animals sprang
from antediluvian ancestors and that
they were fundamentally identical in
structure under infinite external diff
ferences.
Creation of Man.
of the dust of the earth in His own
image and likeness: and breathing
into that dust some of His Divine Els
sence, He gave to man, the last Gre
ated being; an immortal SOUL
1t was man whom God created, that
penetrated the forests, tanned the wild
beasts and captured the wind, to make
it serve his husbandry
1t was man, who harnessed the light.
ming and dug into the bowels of the
earth, and unlocked the stored-up
treasures of the ages to fill the earth
with the product of human ingenuity
1t was man who rebelled against the
law of God and filled the world with
much misery; and yet the same man
welded into one brotherhood the bar.
barian tribes that sprang from the
| forests of Germany and the marshes
of the Danube; beyond the influence of
this civilized man, violence and bar
barity, the untamed powers of ma
ture, ruled unchecked. 1t was the
civilized man who tanned these wild
elements, taught the barbarian the
principles of discipline and legislation
How then, when all facts are taken
into consideration, can man say that
in remote times his father was an
ape?
The Immortal Soul.
When God created man, the last
work in creating the earth, He made
man to His own image by giving him
an immortal soul; but in what physi
cal form man was created we know
not. We know not whether he was
itall or short, broad or slim, smooth
| or hairy skin; but we do know thai
his Maker did all things well, SO wei
that no improvement could be made
He was perfect in Himself and gave
Ito man such body as that time re
qlired.
| Man as created by God was perfect
and to this man were given certain
| laws-which in time he cast aside ant
/ for punishment was banished, and b.
| the sweat of his brow was doomed
| to- eat his bread. Man was then forced
to wage his own battle for existence
he had to contend with the wind, el
ements and wild beasts and thus seek
ing existence ht spread to other sec
tfons of the earth; some sought th'
| mountains, others the forests, ant
thus most of them lost all human as
pect excepting the outward form 0
human beings, and many became
worse than the brutes of the for
tests, against whom they had to bat
tie for life. His home became TIL
caves, the mountain cliffs and bow
els of the earth, and man practically
became a beast and lived as such.
What God had created He create
good, so the Goldman could not b
lost, for. he retained his immorta
iso,ff, the very image of God; an
some of these men increased and mu
tiplied in the fear and love of thei
Creator.
From this branch, of those who rt
| tanned what God had given them, cam
the civilization that was to seek tn
four parts of the globe.
i Two Glasses OF Men.
i We now have two classes of huma
beings in the world-those who retain
| ed what God had given. them an
those who lost. it and became littl
better than beasts. Man was man
1 he could be nothing else; God ha
created him MAN, and man he mus
remain; and no matter under wha
conditions he lived, he was still Man
Il If was from the race nf men VIII