A Story Outline of Evolution 



an effort. The spiritual principle of Evolution is that of 

 beauty, order, design and harmony and that in all things 

 Nature is seeking perfection. 



At the time the book of Genesis was written, the Hebrew 

 people and their contemporaries were very limited in their 

 view of the universe and all it contains. They saw it with 

 the naked eye and without the background of centuries of 

 careful observation and research which we now have. They 

 believed that the earth was flat instead of round; that the 

 earth was the center of the universe. This same belief was 

 perpetuated by Ptolemy whose teachings satisfied the minds 

 of the peoples of the earth for a period of more than four- 

 teen hundred years. These teachings were that the earth 

 was the center of the universe and that the sun, moon and 

 stars revolved around It. Aristotle taught that the earth 

 was a globe suspended in space; that it was the center of the 

 universe around which the sun, moon and stars revolved. 

 Great thinkers had begun to direct their thoughts to an 

 understanding of some of the laws of Nature. 



In the early part of the sixteenth century, a young Polish 

 astronomer, Nikolaus Copernicus, developed a theory that 

 the sun is the center of the universe and that the earth and 

 the planets revolve around it, and that the moon revolves 

 around the earth. He was a man seventy years of age and 

 on his death bed when his book was published proclaiming 

 his solar theory. The Church objected to this theory as 

 being contrary to the teachings of the Bible. Then came the 

 discovery of the Law of Gravitation by Newton, and Galileo 

 with his telescope proving the solar theory of Copernicus to 



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