Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge & Truth — Page 225
THE CONCEPT OF GOD AMONG. THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA. East of Australia, the belief in One Eternal God certainly preceded the arrival of any missionaries or indeed any. Western settlers, among them. Strangely, even he fails to notice that the bizarre idea of Christian missionaries sowing the suggestion of the Unity of God should have been dismissed outright because no trace of Trinity is found anywhere in the entire continent of Australia in the image of God which the Aborigines universally revere. . Nevertheless, despite the range and extent of Howitt's empirical studies, Howitt himself seems reluctant to push his own research to its logical conclusion. While he can readily admit in his book, published in 1904, that the. Aborigines believed in an All-Father who was: ". . . evidently everlasting, for he existed from the beginning of all things, and he still lives. But in being so, he is merely in that state in which, these. Aborigines believe, everyone would be if not prematurely killed by magic. " • 2. Thus Howitt attempts to escape the inescapable evidence of Divinity in their belief by confusing the issue. . He claims: 'It cannot be alleged that these Aborigines have consciously any form of religion. "³. Here is another example of a desperate attempt on the part of the evolutionists to escape the inevitable. The points. Howitt has raised are not only inconclusive but are also irrelevant to the subject of discussion. The simple question which any sociologist must have addressed was: how could a primitive society, like that of the Aborigines, which was split into hundreds of sub-tribes with no means of communication among them, conceive the same idea of. One Supreme Eternal Being independently? Again, they should have answered the question as to what legitimacy is 221