Fkbruary, 1928 



EVOLUTION 



Pace Eleven 



FUNNYMENTALS 



"In its conception, development and ap- 

 plication evolution is utterly false, as false 

 10 science as to Scripture; and so Scrip- 

 ture and this unproven and unprovable 

 hypothesis can never speak together. Truth 

 is the embodiment of intolerance. It can- 

 not be forced into any fellowship with 

 falsehood. God's word is Truth. Darwin's 

 theory is falsehood. Between them there 

 ■can be no fellowship. . . . 



"If it were in my power I would take 

 «very false teacher out of every pulpit 

 and professorship in the land. . . . 



"If any philosophy was ever weighed 

 in the balance and found wanting to sucli 

 an extent that intelligent men ought to 

 turn with loathing from the same, it is 

 the theory of evolution; and if there is a 

 spot on earth where this theory has ren- 

 dered any profit to an individual, to so- 

 ciety or to the Slate, let its advocates 

 migrate to that spot and continue their 

 teachings there." — Rev. W. B. Riley, in 

 February, 1928, Christian Fundamentalist. 



"Evolution is an unchristian fraud. It 

 is a blank unproved theory unsupported in 

 fact. It is illegal to teach it in tax- 

 supported schools. Under the common law 

 it is blasphemy." — Evangelist L. S. Hoov- 

 er, Ithaca, Journal News, Jan. 3, 1928. 



"I want the people of Mississippi to 

 know that, as Assistant State Superin- 

 tendent of Education, I believe that man 

 ■was made in the image of God, his Cie- 

 ator, and I favor putting out of the school- 

 room any man or woman teaching any 

 other doctrine." — Knox M. Broom, A. B., 

 quoted by American Mercury, Jan., 1927. 



"I would rather my babies' eyes be 

 gouged out at this minute than to have 

 them taught this blatant atheism. When 

 you teach a man that he is nothing more 

 than an evolved animal he is going to live 

 like a beast. When you teach a community 

 or a nation that they are made up of 

 animals, they are going to live like a 

 jungle. Monkey men mean monkey mor- 

 als. If evolution is not checked, it will 

 put America into a seething pit of anar- 

 chy within ten years." — Gerald B. Winrod, 

 "The Mark of The Beast" 



"As nearly as we know it at present, 

 the Lord's return took place between 45 

 and 50 years ago; and all the upset times 

 the world has had since are simply signs 

 that Christ is getting ready to destroy all 

 the bad and wicked works of the devil, 

 who has kept mankind in trouble for so 

 many thousand years." — Int. Bible Students 

 Association, October 5, 1927. 



"The discoveries of modern science make 

 it impossible to place any credence what- 

 ever in Darwinism. Darwinism has been 

 almost wholly discarded by scientific men." 

 —George McCreadv Price, in January, 

 1928, Signs of the Times. 



"People give ear to an upstart astrologer 

 who strove to show that the earth re- 

 volves, not the heavens or the firmament, 

 the sun and the moon. But sacred scrip- 

 ture tells us that Joshua commanded the 

 sun to stand still, and not the earth." — 

 Martin Luther. 



"We make bold to assert that from the 

 beginning to the end of Genesis there is 

 not a blunder from a scientific standpoint." 

 — Dr. Harrv Rimmer. President of the 

 Fundamentalist Research Science Bureau. 



DEBATING EVOLUTION IN 

 NORTH CAROLINA 



By Howell S. England 



TN the spring of 1926 Dr. T. T. Martin, 

 ■^ National Secretary of the Anti-Evolu- 

 tion League of America arranged two de- 

 bates with the writer in Charlotte, North 

 Carolina, on the subject of Evolution. 



The debates were very unpopular. No 

 hall could be had in the city. When an 

 amusement park several miles out of town 

 was secured the local Ku Klux Klan let 

 it be known that no atheist should ever 

 be allowed to set foot in the state of North 

 Carolina, much less to speak there, and 

 that upon my arrival I would be captured. 

 taken in charge by the hooded gentlemen, 

 and promptly put on the next train out, 

 possibly having received in the meantime 

 an appropriate coat of tar and feathers. 



After the American Civil Liberties 

 Union had informed the Governor of North 

 Carolina and the mayor of Charlotte that 

 the constitutional right of free speech 

 saould not be abridged in their city and 

 state, the local Klan executed a beautiful 

 somersault and announced publicly that 

 they would see I was protected in all my 

 constitutional rights, and that they had 

 five hundred men in the mountains who 

 would come down if necessary for ray 

 protection. 



So the debates took place; and if the 

 applause that followed our points was an 

 indication, I had as many backers in the 

 audience as had Doctor Martin. The mod- 

 erator of the first debate was a former 

 judge of the circuit court. He was emi- 

 nently fair. The moderator the second night 

 was a fundamentalist preacher by the name 

 of Holland who became very solicitous as 

 to the time taken up by myself as soon 

 as I began to make light of the account 

 of creation and the flood in Genesis. 



Holland said to me after the debate, with 

 what was intended to be crushing sever- 

 ity: "Mr. England, you are the first man 

 I have ever heard willing to admit that 

 he did not believe the divinely inspired 

 story of creation as given in the Bible, 

 and it will give me great pleasure in re- 

 calling this incident to remember that the 

 same man acknowledged he was a blood- 

 brother to the skunk and the turkey- 

 buzzard." 



Apparently many people in the audience 

 heard the story of evolution for the first 

 time at these debates. One woman asked 

 in all seriousness: "Mr. England, do you 

 really believe that what you told us this 

 evening is the truth?" 



The people ol North Carolina I found 

 hospitable, eager to hear and to learn 

 what the debates were about. The crying 

 need of the state, as I see it, as well as 

 of all the other states in the Bible belt, 

 is modem education broadcast among all 

 their people. 



Really Bright Son — "Say, Dad! Teacher 

 says we are descended from monkeys." 



Fundamentalist Father (not so bright) — 

 "Nonsense! You may be, but I'm not!" 



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