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EVOLUTION 



November, 1928 



FUNNYMENTALS 



''Before the animals were made to pass 

 before Adam to be named, God determ- 

 ined to make another being like him, be- 

 cause He knew that none of the animals 

 were fitted by creation and nature to be 

 his real companions. They were simply 

 animals; He was a rational human per- 

 sonality constituting a genus all his own. 

 Then the animals passed before him, and 

 he gave them appropriate names. "But 

 for man himself," the translator aptly puts 

 it, "no helper was found who was like 

 him." So God made another personal be- 

 ing of the same genus from the (Original 

 generic human stock, thus performing at 

 the same time two great crucial biologic 

 acts, — the preservation of the unity of the 

 human race and the differentiation of sex. 



"And this, we maintain, as we have 

 often done before, is the most rational and 

 scientific way of accounting for the origin 

 of genus homo," Professor Leander S. Key- 

 ser, D. D., in Bible Champion, Dec. 1928. 



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From Defender (fundamentalist). Oct. 28 

 "The theory of evolution, taught in 

 public schools, is diametrically opposed to 

 the teachings of the word of God, and 

 leads the student to the conclusion that the 

 bible is a book of lies and is utterly un- 

 dependable, or that the school books are 

 wrong. Teachers are considered by the 

 average scholar almost as infallible as God. 

 "It is the same as placing a den of rattle 

 snakes in a room with the children. One 

 could not blame a parent for protecting 

 them against a rattler. Can one forbid 

 them from making a stand against this 

 rattler? One kills the body, the other kills 

 the soul. It is to be wondered that parents 

 are able to sit at home as long as they 

 have and know that those things are 

 taught to their little ones." Aimee Semple 

 McPherson, quoted by Chicago Daily 

 Tribune, Oct. 26, 1928. 



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"I've reached the conclusion that Arkan- 

 sas isn't the only state where anti-evolu- 

 tionists reside. Illinois has a few also. 

 Proof: One of the above saw my EVO- 

 LUTION magazine last month before I 

 saw it, became quite angry at such "heath- 

 enish stuff" and flung my magazine into 

 the blazing destructive flames of an old 

 heater. — Amelia A. Kroepel, Illinois. 



"As one of the members of Rationalist 

 Press Association I received with great 

 pleasure the distributed copy of your 

 splendid propaganda paper EVOLUTION. 

 It is a first class production which I should 

 wish heartily will have a wide sale on this 

 side as well as in U. S. A. The attitude 

 of the British Press to the famous Ten- 

 nessee case, by inference suggested that 

 everybody accepted evolution here. This 

 is not so. It is astounding how the aver- 

 age Englishman either completely ignores 

 the subject, or is a bigoted opposer of it. 

 There has been no famous legal test here; 

 the fact remains that Darwinism is NOT 

 taught in our State elementary schools, and 

 very meagerly taught in the best private 

 schools and Colleges. My own children 

 going to public elementary school are 

 taught the origin of Life and the world 

 as per the first chapter of Genesis, — treated 

 literally too. They learn that Charles 

 Darwin was a great naturalist and travel- 

 ler, who wrote the "Voyage of the Beagle" 

 and was very kind to his family, and 

 that's about all they learn of that. — George 

 Davey, England. 



"You are doing very well. Every num- 

 ber of EVOLUTION seems to be an im- 

 provement. 



''I feel sure that Christian school au- 

 thorities are directing pupils to take up the 

 dead languages and higher mathematics 

 to the exclusion of the natural sciences 

 with the purpose that they may more 

 easily be led by the churches. Boys and 

 girls are led to study Latin and Trigono- 

 metry, who do not know whether their 

 heart is above or below their diaphram; 

 who know nothing of the phases of the 

 moon; who can not analize a flower, and 

 to whom a lump of coal is nothing but a 

 lump of coal. 



"I believe this is all done slyly, cun- 

 ningly, with the purpose of keeping stu- 

 dents from studying the sciences that must 

 necessarily lead to knowledge of evolution. 



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 Humanitv, — M. Mark, Indiana. 



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