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Excerpt from The Unleashing of Evolutionary Thought
Such a venture necessarily becomes at first a closer look at meaningful parts of the new revelation of science, with the intent of finding its full meaning. It next becomes a tour of the several areas - schools, news sources, churches, theaters, ordinance and law - where that meaning struggles against an entrenched and resolute opponent for a beachhead in institutions that re?ect man's social goals and his thoughts about himself. This leash on thought is short and stout.
A few years ago, the Catholic Library Association was told in New York that Catholics may subscribe to a doctrine Of miti gated evolution without violating the rules of the Church. Monsignor Joseph H. Mcmahon was further reported by the press to have said: If science should prove that man descended from an animal, the Church would not refuse to recognize such proof, for Catholicism is founded on truth. But such acceptance would not affect the certitude that the soul of each and every man was the divine creation Of God. In 1981, Dr. Howard H. Kelley, then a famous surgeon Of Baltimore, was reported by the press to have said that man has been created in the image Of God and that his progress has been downward and not upward. I am a thoroughgoing believer in the special creation of man.
Rather similar mitigations Of the meaning of the word evolu tion widely prevail in Protestant and other world religions; they are found in a ?ood of books for the reading public Of all countries; they have even crept into several textbooks now very widely used in American schools and colleges. These mitiga tions everywhere rob the broader principle of evolution of its real meaning and of its vast ability to assist society to a level of sanity and warranted hope. They rob the race of its chance to build a genuinely modern society. Nor may we expect something short of comprehensive and direct challenge to check these sapping ?oods Of undervaluation and distortion. It would seem that 'no story now needs to be more firmly written nor widely spread than that of unmitigated evolution.
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