The antiquity of man from the point of view of religion : in answer to Mr. S. Laing's Modern science and modern thought / by F. Hugh Capron.

  • Capron, F. Hugh (Frederick Hugh), 1857-1955.
Date:
1892
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Credit: The antiquity of man from the point of view of religion : in answer to Mr. S. Laing's Modern science and modern thought / by F. Hugh Capron. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    far as they are known to us, exactly correspond, so that every point of contact is a point of coincidence, it would be difficult, while claiming for Science that she is a fragment from the rock of Truth, to attribute to Religion a less close relationship with the same infallible source. Possibly, it cannot yet be claimed that the chain of established coincidences is com- plete ; but it should be remembered that the establishment of every fresh point of identity not only adds to the completeness of the chain, but also lends additional strength to the links already established. Such a fresh link appears to be furnished by a comparison of the chronologies of Science and Religion in connection with the origin of man. The later date assigned by Religion, so far from conflicting, will on the Evolutionist’s theory be in exact harmony with the earlier date of Science, if only there is a corresponding superiority in the attributes which Religion claims for man over those alleged by Science. Tried by this test the harmony is beyond all dispute. Compare for a moment the attributes of man as understood by Science with the attributes of man as understood by Religion. The one material, the other spiritual ; the one temporal, the other eternal; the one finite, the other infinite; the one human, the other divine. We are content to leave it to those Evolutionists who have realized how vast is the professed superiority of the Spiritual over the Intellectual, to decide whether the voices of Science and Religion do not o