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create them strong enough to bear the light? Why 

 did the light waves make eyes and then make eyelids 

 to keep the light out of the eyes? 



And so with the ears. They must have gone in " to 

 hear " instead of out, and wasn't it lucky that they hap- 

 pened to go in on opposite sides of the head instead of 

 eater-cornered or at random? Is it not easier to be- 

 lieve in a God who can make the eye, the ear, the fin, 

 the wing, and the leg, as well as the light, the sound, 

 the air, the water and the land ? 



There is such an abundance of ludicrous material 

 that it is hard to resist the temptation to continue illus- 

 trations indefinitely, but a few more will be sufficient. 

 In order that you may be prepared to ridicule these 

 pseudo-scientists who come to you with guesses instead 

 of facts, let me give you three recent bits of evolution- 

 ary lore. 



Last November I was passing through Philadelphia 

 and read in an afternoon paper a report of an address 

 delivered in that city by a college professor employed 

 in extension work. Here is an extract from the 

 paper's account of the speech: "Evidence that early 

 men climbed trees with their feet lies in the way we 

 wear the heels of our shoes — more at the outside. A 

 baby can wiggle its big toe without wiggling its other 

 toes — an indication that it once used its big toe in 

 climbing trees." What a consolation it must be to 

 mothers to know that the baby is not to be blamed for 

 wiggling the big toe without wiggling the other toes. 

 It cannot help it, poor little thing; it is an inheritance 

 from " the tree man," so the evolutionists tell us. 



