My Mother Is A Fish

"Science demonstrates incessant past changes, and dimly points to yet earlier links in a more vast series of development of material existence; but the idea of a beginning, or of creation, in the sense of the original operation of the divine volition to constitute nature and matter, is beyond the province of physical philosophy."
 
~Rev. Baden-Powell
 
St. George Mivart writes (1) in response to the special theory of evolution as published by Darwin.   Distinguishes between absolute (or primary) creation and derivative (secondary) creation.  Viewing the development of mankind's material form as an occurence of derivate creation, by way of natural processes, and on the other hand, his spiritual form as by way of the supernatural in absolute creation, he reconciles science and religion, evolution and dogma.