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EVOLUTION 



April, 1929 



and I can't get him to do it. I dare him to take up 

 those arguments, the arguments that are taught these 

 boys and girls here, viz., "spontaneous generation," 

 "Natural selection," "Recapitulation," etc. I stand 

 ready tonight to quote textbooks and refute every one 

 of those steps by which this system has been built up. 

 I challenge him tonight to take up any one of them. 



Now, he has touched very slightly upon two or three 

 of them, one of them seldom found in the textbooks, 

 but the other two prevalent everywhere. Let me take 

 up two or three that he has touched so lightly. 



First of all, he said that the distribution of animals 

 and plants over the world absolutely agrees with the 

 law of evolution. 



A statement is not a science. That statement is ab- 

 solutely without proof. On the contrary, it is opposed 

 to reason even. If what these gentlemen believe to be 

 so is so, and sometimes, somewhere (nobody knows 

 when, nobody knows where, nobody knows how) life 

 came to a single cell, that cell would have been located 

 and, in consequence of that fact, the continent on which 

 the birth takes place would have been covered and 

 peopled and other continents left bare. 



We find nothing of the sort. There isn't a single 

 thing in the creative record in Genesis that indicates 

 that God only made one blade of grass. Not a thing. 

 There is not a thing to indicate that God started life 

 in one place only. On the contrary, the whole earth- 

 record plainly shows that he filled the earth with plants 

 and birds and fishes and animals from the beginning, 

 even as the statement is made ; and so I say that this 

 distribution of plants and animal life is in absolute 



accord with the creative theory, and has nothing in 

 common with the evolutionary philosophy. 



Now, he calls our attention to two continents and 

 asks the question why ? It is very easy to answer that. 

 Why was there nothing found in New Zealand above 

 the Tuatara ? And why was there nothing found above 

 the Kangaroo in Australia ? Well, I would like to turn 

 that question back upon him. If his law is operative, 

 it ought to operate in those continents, as well as in 

 others, and the higher forms should have been found. 



If, on the other hand, the deluge record in Genesis 

 is true, death might have ensued there very easily and 

 most completely, and the animals and birds that were 

 have been destroyed and swept away from that place. 



Do you not know that from Key West clear .up here 

 to south of Baltimore there is a deposit of bone sub- 

 stance, simply millions of tons in extent, that cannot 

 be accounted for in any way, known to the mind of 

 man, except to admit the Genesis flood, and that the 

 animals that were destroyed on the continents were 

 swept around with the water until they struck land 

 and piled up in heaps on both sides of our continent, 

 as is the testimony? So his argument turns back upon 

 himself, and I ask him to explain. 



Again, if I were advocating a law that had been 

 paralyzed, as he says in one of his books, 250 million 

 years ago in New Zealand, and 200 million years ago 

 it had another stroke in Australia, I would be afraid 

 that the old thing would have a third stroke and perish 

 on my hands ! No reason in the world why the law 

 should not be operative there if it were operative any- 

 where. (To he contiinicd in the next issue.) 



FUNNYMENTALS. 



The New York debate has made more 

 evident to this editor than ever before 

 that those meek-eyed, modernistic pro- 

 fessors who are teaching this philosophy 

 (evolution) to beardless boys and im- 

 mature girls, are sowing the seeds of 

 anarchy. Seldom in a lifetime will one 

 face a company of people more prej- 

 udiced in thinking, more opposed to all 

 moral and ethical ideals, more ready to 

 hiss the name of God and consequently 

 so ready to oppose all authority and 

 government as this assemblage of New 

 York atheists and agnostics proved to 

 be. If evolution continues to be taught 

 in America until a generation becomes 

 infected with it, we will reproduce for 

 our country the Russian experience and 

 in a few years, by bloody revolution, 

 Bolshevism will be in control. — Rev. 

 Wm. B. Riley in The Christian Fund- 

 amentalist, March, 1929. 



Here is my definition for evolution : 

 Evolution is the theory that sometime, 

 somewhere in the illimitable past by a 

 fortuitous combination of non-entities, 

 something emerged from the little end 

 of nothing, by the inherent power of 

 resid-ent forces. — Rev. C. H. Cotton in 

 The Defender. March, 1929. 



Man cannot be the offspring of any kind 

 of animal. Man is sui generis. He is 

 directly created in the divine image, and 

 that is what gives him his uniqueness. This 



is proved by the fact that Adam could 

 not find "a help meet for him" among 

 any of the animals of the Edenic garden 

 (Gen. 2:20). This theory of man's evo- 

 lution from an animal pedigree is a 

 crude theory, anyway, and arises from 

 earthly thinking. — The Bible Champion, 

 March, 1929. 



In speaking of man in connection with 

 animals it is better not to speak of 

 "lower" animals, implying that man is 

 an animal, but only one of higher degree 

 or kind. Man has many factors in com- 

 mon with vegetable life; why not call 

 him a vegetable, only of a higher kind? 

 He has much in common with the in- 

 organic realm : why not call him a clod 

 of a somewhat higher order? No; man 

 is genus homo: he belongs to an order 

 of his own. Man has more fundamental 

 elements in common with God and the 

 angels than he has with the animals. — 

 The Bible Champion, March, 1929. 



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