The Archive · 1936

Scottish Rector's Scathing Address in Montreal

EVOLUTION THEORY DENOUNCED

Montreal, Aug. 21, The theory of evolution was denounced as a "vile conspiracy to rob the world of its faith in God" by Rev, Dr, D. E. Harl-Davies, noted Scottish rector, in a lecture here.

Dr, Harl-Davies, who ig rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, declared that Pithecanthropus was only created out of the: jerown of a skull, and bones that might easily have belonged to another Jereature altogether.

"It is a rotten philosophical theory without any real foundation," he said "No scientist dare attempt fo demon: strate evolution by actual experiment.

"It there were any truth in that theory the world would be full of Jereatures ore-fifth man and four fifths chimpanzee."—Unlted Press,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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