Calvinism - pagina 179

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE.

and they

accept

evolution,

departure the

future,

— an

until

boundless

the

in

lost

Homo

of

point

a

and eternally evolving

not even the species

species,

without

evolution

the past,

in

and can only

very idea of creation,

the

reject

75

Materially however

be considered as normal.

this

1

itself in

No

infinite.

sapiens, originated

as such, but within the circle of natural data developed

out

of lower and

no

miracles,

dominating

but

inexorable

them the natural

that

all

Christ,

of the

law,

but

sin,

human production be

necessary, but such a one as

if

they do

all,

it

those parts, which cannot be logi-

explained as a

cally

No

manner.

they tolerate the Holy Scriptures at

on condition

A

an

in

of

instead

Especially

hfe.

from a lower to a higher moral position.

evolution If

preceding forms of

human development

of Israel.

is

And

exscinded. the product

in the

same

manner a God, or rather a Supreme Being, but after the manner of the Agnostics, concealed behind the visible Universe, or pantheistically hiding in all existing

i-|

things,

and conceived of

human The

mind.

as the ideal reflection of the

Abnormalisis, on the other hand,

who do justice

to relative evolution, but adhere to primordial creation

over against an evohitio in of the

Normalists with

inexorably

our

God

;

they

original

against

all

conception

conceive nature,

God; and

maintain the

for

of

and

oppose the position

their might; they maintain

of

because in him alone

species,

of

the

infijiitim,

sin

man is

as an independent

reflected

as

the

consequently

the

image

destruction of as

rebellion

that reason they postulate

and

miraculous as the only means to restore

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