CHAPTER XVI 



THE CHURCH AND MAN'S ORIGIN 



THE position of the Church upon the sub- 

 ject of man's origin and antiquity will be 

 found eminently scientific by any one 

 who approaches this theme without bias. Uni- 

 versity professors have been as certain of a hun- 

 dred other things that have since been proved to 

 be false as many of them are still obsessed with 

 the idea of an infallible materialistic evolution, 

 impossible as it has been shown to be both philo- 

 sophically and scientifically. The master minds 

 of science have been Christian, and in the de- 

 partments of biology itself, the stronghold of evo- 

 lution, all the great founders, with one exception, 

 as we have shown, were positive believers and al- 

 most half of them Catholics. 1 If brilliant minds 

 like Mendel, Pasteur, Malpighi, Schwann and 

 Miiller found no difficulty in perfectly harmon- 

 izing their biology and their religion, without one 

 jarring note of discord, lesser minds might well 

 consider that the fault may possibly lie with them 

 if they fail to see the actual agreement that cer- 



'See Chapter III. 



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