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So it was--he wrote:
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If the human body
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takes its origin from preexisting living matter,
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the spiritual soul is immediately created by God.
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Consequently, theories of evolution which consider the mind
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as emerging from the forces of living matter
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or as a mere epiphenomenon of this matter
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are incompatible to the truth about man.
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So, you might not want evolution to be true about the mind
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because you might believe that the mind is not subject
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to the same physical laws
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as the rest of the physical world.