Calvinism a life-system - pagina 179

CALVINISM AND SCIENCE. and they

evolution,

departure the

very idea of creation, and can only

the

reject

accept

Materially however

be considered as normal.

this

— an

the

in

without

evolution

lost

a

boundless

the

in

Homo

not even the species

of

point

and eternally evolving

past,

until

future,

species,

175

itself in

No

infinite.

sapiens, originated

as such, but within the circle of natural data developed

out

of lower and

no

miracles,

dominating

but

lower

a

of them

inexorable to

all

the

a higher

Christ,

sin,

law,

but

moral position. all,

they do

human production be

necessary, but such a one as

if

natural

No

manner.

it

those parts, which cannot be logi-

explained as a

cally

Especially

life.

they tolerate the Holy Scriptures at

on condition that

A

instead

an

in

from

evolution If

preceding forms of

is

exscinded. the product

human development of Israel. And in the same manner a God, or rather a Supreme Being, but after the manner of the Agnostics, concealed behind the of the

visible Universe, or pantheistically hiding in all existing

things,

and conceived of as the

human mind. The Abnormalists, on

ideal reflection of the

the other hand,

who do justice

to relative evolution, but adhere to primordial creation

over against an evolutio in infinitim, oppose the position of the

Normalists with

inexorably

our

God

;

they

original

against

all

conception

their might; they maintain

of

because in him alone

species,

of

the

conceive nature,

God; and

maintain the

for

of

and

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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