The Principles of Catholic Apologetics A. Suxly of Modernism based chiefly on the Lectures of Péve Garvigouagrange, O.P. “De Revelatione per Evcteslam Cathulican prepotin” adapted and re-arranged eas wy luv, 'T, J. WALSHE, M.A, Author of ‘The Peinipl of Cvitian Apongtics, ‘Rees quacrena intact.” S, Aste ("Proslogium), | i London: SANDS & Co. 15, KING STREET, COVENT GARDEN and EdinbarghNihil Obstat: T. George, DD . ‘Censor Deputaius. Imprimatur: ois Fredericus Guliclmus, Arckispizcopus Liverpoitanus. Liverpoli, die 27 Mait, 1926. Printed im Gueanacy by the Sta and Gaoete Co.,Ltd. PREFACE ‘Tutt present compendia based chiely on the works of Iie GarrigoucLagrange isa defence of Divine Revelation ‘sub divecione Fadat™ It is intended to bes sopplesiens ‘inciples of Christian Apologetics published in the esiminsie? seven of Messs, Longmans, Green & Co, tie Tater vohwne was to shew the rational ely of the fest isponanee regard nan and ihe rlitions between God ‘and. man {09 ato nn alates the fac thet adynnee fn tre falta fates nf Naluenl Science, so far trom Defog& iy diincily a help ¢o Religious and Suers More than thirey years ago the late, Pio. toamir Huxley, ablest of English Agnosticy wrote The ttl forms of supecratucaism «sin thew ler days Ihivet cope with an enemy whose fll strength is only jest Inyloning to be put aut, and vwhose forces, gathering inj Yet by year, a hemming them sound’on every “Ths enemy te Sclance™ ( Beangs pon some Gord ened. Subjects," p.29)- Me poorer The best inpter of Genesis teaches the supernatural cretion of the Iresent forms of lifes modern lence teaches that they Have come about by evolution” (pe yr). Would not tie Irafessor have been astonished $8 fad been told that seal Fathers of the Church, such as Gregory of Nyssa fd. Augustine bold views on thet question ‘which Teave fom for Evolution in ite fullest foraran Evolution from Inorgante mater sight up to the body of mam no special intervention of God being necessary? “The Conseration ‘of ereatures, the concursus with their ectivity and: hall. he erention of the human soul when the disposition oF ‘nailer alls for i are the three acts of the natural govern tnent of the world by God. Thus the necessary order ‘of development ofthe word is included in what St. Grogory ‘o{ Nyssa term the primary impuise of the Divine Wil” (Cl. ‘Dorainism and Cathatie Thought, . 117, by Canon Money ‘de Dorlodos, Professor at Loutain, University)vi PREFACE ‘This is a typical ease where the supposed conflict between. Religion and Science is due t0 ignorance of the teaching, of those who are accredited representatives of Religion. Professor Husley proceeds to point out that whereas the late Mfr. Gladstone interpreted the first chapter of Genesis, as giving @ chronology of the creation of orgenisms—a Chronology in hacmony with Science (viz., 1. Plants; 2, SKquatic and Aerial Animals; 3. All Terresteial Animals) Sclence shews that plants and animals, aquatic, aerial and ferresitial existed contemporaneously. "The Catholic posi~ tion on this matier is that the author of Genesis had no intention to write a scientific statement. He aimed at ‘emphasising the Divine origin of the world, the mode being outside his purview, In confirmnation of this fact, amongst the decrees of the Pontifical Commission for Biblical studies published on the goth June, 1900, we Gnd the following : “Since it was not the intention Of the sacred writer to teach the inmost. constitution Of visible things, or the complete order of creation, in a scientific manner, but rather to give to his country= men a. popular notien, conformable to. the ordinary Tanguage of those times, and adapted (o their opinions and intelligence, we must not always and regularly look for Seleatific exactitude of language when interpreting this Ehapter,”. Were Professor Huxley alive to-day, it would bbe interesting t9 know on what grounds fe, unuoubtedty aver of thy would witha Bs asent fom this, the (holig interpretation of Mosaic cosmogony. Again, Fegerding the geographical universality of the Flood, Father Hetzenader writes: "The Fathers, neither directly nor indirect, put forward the geographical universality Of the Flood as the sente of the church, or as a doctrine of faith of morals ; therefore tradition in the strict sense does ‘Bui there is one question of presentuday interest 0 which moze attention must be given. Is the early history » Ueikan so far as it may be read in geological records, in farmony with the teaching of Divine Revelation as set forth in the Book of Genesis? In order to answer this (question satisfactorily T venture to give a brief account of {he various human relice which have been discovered so far, and which belong ebiefly to the Pleistocene period. The diagram (Fig. 1) feproduced from Si Arthur Keith's sintiguity of Man (Second Edition, 1928) with the kind “pee | er aia