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Grant Moves South, by Bruce Catton. Grant's astonishing evolution from a faltering, fear-stricken officer in his first Civil War battles to a masterful commander two years later, told with the author's customary skill.
More Than Nails. Wheaton's fourth president, 59-year-old Dr. Victor Raymond Edman (a minister in the Swedish Mission Covenant Group), sees the Bible and science as two separate systems of knowledge. "Jesus doesn't choose to speak to us on matters scientific," he says. "He could...
Sir: Re your excellent review of The Phenomenon of Man by the late Father Teilhard de Chardin [Dec. 14], it is interesting that this perceptive priest has restated so clearly a number of old ideas: 1) His concept of a "thinking envelope" or"noosphere" surrounding the earth, 2) the evolution...
It is true that friends and opponents alike may find it hard to understand that Teilhard's conception of evolution is not in disagreement with the traditional Roman Catholic outlook. But this comes from a misunderstanding that could have most unfortunate consequences.
"Apologists emphasize that man cannot be a descendant of any living ape, and go on to state that man is not really descended from an ape or monkey at all but from an earlier common ancestor. In fact that common ancestor would certainly be called an ape or monkey in...