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‘be no less false. For them, the assertion that the 
progenitors of all existing plants were made on the 
third day, of animals on the fifth and sixth days, 
in the forms they now present, is simply false. 
Nor can they admit that man was made suddenly 
out of the dust of the earth ; while it would be an 
_ insult to ask an evolutionist whether he credits the 
preposterous fable respecting the fabrication of 
woman to which Suarez pins his faith. If Suarez 
has rightly stated Catholic doctrine, then is 
- evolution utter heresy. And such I believe it to 
be. In addition to the truth of the doctrine of 
evolution, indeed, one of its greatest merits in 
my eyes, is the fact that it occupies a position of 
- complete and irreconcilable antagonism to that 
vigorous and consistent enemy of the highest intel- 
_ lectual, moral, and social life of mankind—the 
Catholic Church. No doubt, Mr. Mivart, like 
other putters of new wine into old bottles, is 
_ aetuated by motives which are worthy of respect, 
and even of sympathy; but his attempt has met 
with the fate which the Scripture prophesies for 
all such. 
Catholic theology, like all theologies which are | 
based upon the assumption of the truth of the 
account of the origin of things given in the Book 
of Genesis, being utterly irreconcilable with the 
doctrine of evolution, the student of science, who is 
_ Satisfied that the evidence upon which the doctrine 
of evolution rests, is incomparably stronger and 
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