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Down Evolution Alley with Adler
So Mortimer Adler's at it again, trying to down [Darwinian] evolution, to make it possible for us once again to accept the idea that man is created in God's Own Image [TIME, June 4],
¶His encyclical Pascendi in 1907 condemned, lock, stock & barrel, the theological trend toward Modernism, which tended to look upon religion as a subjective experience and the church as a purely human institution in the process of evolution. Pius X called this "a synthesis of all heresies," cracked down so...
Sponsored by the University's Roman Catholic Calvert Club, Adler faced a capacity crowd that jammed into Kent Hall, piled up in the aisles and overflowed into every available space. Then, for the next hour, he ripped into great chunks of Darwinian theory. Though he conceded that the Origin...
Having rejected Darwin's hypothesis, Dr. Adler proposed two alternatives: 1) a theory of "emergent evolution," in which a higher species "evolves" from a lower with no intermediate forms; 2) the possibility of man's special creation by God in His Own Image.