January, 1929 



EVOLUTION 



Page Thirteen 



Funnvmentals 



THE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCESTJF 

 THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION 



Over and over again we hear the silly 

 i twaddle that it does not matter how we 

 * got herPv whether by evolulion or by direct 

 creative act, but the important question is 

 where are we going, what of the future? 

 That sounds very well if it were not for 

 ' the fact the Bible teaches that men FELL 

 from a high and holy state or condition 

 into sin and degregation. If _ evolution be 

 true, if indeed man evolved, developed 

 from a lower order to what he now is and 

 is still evolving, it follows that he did NOT 

 S FALL and not only is the Bible contradic- 

 tory concerning the account of creation 

 but it is contradicted when it says man 

 J FELL. DID HE FALL UP HILL? Was 

 I his fall iin improvement? Bound to be if 

 evolution is true. But hold. If man did not 

 k fall tlicn he needs no Savior. If he needs 

 no Savior then Christ died ill vain and if 

 Christ died in vain then all we have been 

 ' saying about redemption and .salvation 

 [ goes for nought. All we have been saying 

 about tlie new birth is foolishness. The 

 blood of Jesus Christ is of no value. And 

 Ihat is not all. If evolution hv true Ihvrc 

 is no such thing as a miracle and none of 

 the so-called miracles by Jesus were real. 

 He was just a mysterious performer, a 

 juggler,, and sleight of hand performer. 

 And that is still not all. He was the real 

 son of Joseph — God was not his father. 

 I Then it follows that Mary was an adul- 

 [ teress. a liar, and a deceiver for she com- 

 y mitted adulJery and when she got caught 

 she lied to Joseph, her espoused husband, 

 and said that God was the father of her 

 child and silly old Joseph believed her lie 

 I and continued in that deception not know- 

 ing that Jesus was a BASTARD AND 

 HIS MOTHER A BAWD! Evolution means 

 all that. Shall such a devilish doctrine be 

 taught in our tax-supported schools? Shall 

 religious people be taxed to pay teachers 

 .to tell our children that JESUS CHRIST 

 , IS A BASTARD? If that is not an outrage 

 kwliat could be? If infidels and atheists 

 ' want to teach such stuff as that let them 

 K do it at their own expense. We should en- 

 [ force our evolution law to the letter. 

 f Everybody get busy. 



NO PAPER CHRISTMAS WEEK 



It is^ our custom to not publish a paper 



death or of this spiritual force more fear- 

 ful than death was his instinct for pro- 

 tection of those he led. With a mighty 

 roar he hurled himself towards the rav- 

 isher of his family. 



What was this deafening blinding ex- 

 plosion that smote him as he leapt? What 

 was this sickening shocking blow that 

 struck him in his very heart, — paralyzing 

 his muscles, — loosening his knees, — bring- 

 ing him crashing to the ground? 



Before his wide-stretched eyes the sun- 

 light turns to darkness, and wondering, 

 still wondering, at the Mighty Power 

 which has laid him low, his undisgraced 

 spirit passes from fleshly ken. 



Th/' tivins hnii met. 



EVIDENCE OF DEGENERACY 

 In publishing under Funnymentals a 

 photograph of a column from the front 

 page of the Christmas number of the Bap- 

 tist and Commoner, the paper that fathered 

 the anti-evolution law in Arkansas, we do 

 not mean to imply that all fundamentalists 

 are of the degenerate type of mind of 

 which that article is evidence. Many of 

 them are noble and well meaning people, 

 who simply don't know any better. But 

 the hand that wrote that article is one of 

 the controlling influences in the education 

 of the children of Arkansas, and is now 

 reaching out to dominate the teaching of 

 science everywhere. Would you want that 

 hand, and the type of mind that it re- 

 veals, to control the teaching of YOUR 

 child? What are you doing to prevent it? 



"THE MENACE OF DARWINISM"— 



By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN 

 64 pp., 12mo. Fleming H. Revell Co. 1922. 



The cream of the late Mr. Bryan's 

 pronouncements in reference to organic 

 evolution can be found in this little 

 pamphlet — "It is better to trust in the Rock 

 of Ages than to know the Age of Rocks." 

 Bryan occupies a position which is logical- 

 ly sounder than that of Price or O'Toole — 

 he does not make any serious attempt to 

 discuss the validity of the facts supporting 

 the law of evolution, nor to assail any link 

 in the chain of reasoning based on these 

 facts, but regards an appeal to religious 

 emotionalism as an adequate answer. 

 "Having given Darwin's conclusions as to 

 man's ancestry, I shall quote him to prove 

 that his hypothesis is not only groundless, 

 but absurd and harmful to society . . . He 

 advances an hypothesis which, if true, 

 would find support on every foot of the 

 earth's surface, but which, as a matter of 

 fact, finds support nowhere. There are 

 myriads of living creatures about us, from 

 insects too small to be seen with the naked 

 eye to the largest mammals, and, yet, not 

 one is in transition from one species to 

 another; every one is perfect. It is strange 

 that slight similarities should make him 

 ignore gigantic differences. The remains 

 of nearly one hundred species [sic] of 

 vertebrate life have been found in the 

 rocks, of which more than one-half are 

 found living to-day, and none of the sur- 

 vivors show material change". Practically 

 every statement in this quotation, explicit 

 or implied, is untrue, as the author could 

 have discovered by consulting standard 

 works. ''Is it not more rational to believe 

 in God and explain the varieties of life 

 in terms of divine power than to waste 

 our lives in ridiculous attempts to explain 

 the unexplainable." "Looking heavenward 

 man can find inspiration in his lineage; 

 looking about him he is impelled to kind- 

 ness by a sense of kinship which binds 

 him to his brothers. Mighty problems 

 demand his attention ; a world's destiny 

 is to be determined by him. What time 

 has he to waste in hunting for '"Missing 

 Links' or in searching for resemblances 



between his forefathers and the ape?" 



Mr. Bryan, then, is personally uninter- 

 ested in science nor does he accept the 

 validity of the scientific method. That is, 

 he regards conclusions reached emotionally 

 as inherently superior to those reached by 

 dispassionate and painstaking thought. 

 When he ventures into a discussion of 

 facts, he is unable to be accurate. Mr. 

 Bryan's position is probably not seriously 

 inconsistent with itself, but between such 

 a point of view and that of a real scient- 

 ist, there is no point of contact. 



HORACE ELMER-WOOD II. 



AGAIN WE SAY: BOOKS, 



One of the principal reasons for publish- 

 ing a journal like EVOLUTION is to in- 

 terest people in the reading of good books. 

 We invite every reader to make himself 

 an instrument for the circulation of such 

 books among friends. For this there is no 

 "off season". It is always timely, always 

 in order. 



Below we list some books that have not 

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 put them to work. 



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GROWING UP: Karl de Schweinitz 1.75 



HEIR OF ALL THE AGES McKcchnie:.. 3.50 

 PICTURE BOOK OF EVOLUTION: Dennis 



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CRE.<\TION BY EVOLUTION: Edited by 



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THE BRAIN FROM APE TO MAN: Fred- 

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LET FREEDOM RING: Arthur Garfield 



Hiys 2-50 



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 EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE: Henshaw 



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DARWIN. THE MAN AND HIS WAR- 

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WAR ON MODERN SCIENCE: Maynard 



Shiplev 3-00 



MY HERESY: Bishop Wm. M. Brown 2.00 



CONCERNING MAN'S ORIGIN: Sir Arthur 



Keith 2-00 



HISTORY OF WARFARE OF SCIENCE 



WITH THEOLOGY White (2 vols.) . . 6.00 

 OUTLINE OF MAN'S KNOWLEDGE: 



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MICROBE HUNTERS: Paul de Kruif.... 3.50 

 WHY WE BEHAVE LIKE HUMAN 



BEINGS : George A. Dorsey 3.50 



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