30 EVOLUTION MADE PLAIN 
‘‘If there is anything that cannot stand the 
truth, let it crack.” 
EVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE 
The Bible itself contains evidences of evolu¬ 
tion. As the Jews climbed up in the scale of 
civilization their ideals, their conception of 
what should constitute a God, also arose. It is 
a far cry from the ancient Hebraic conception 
of God, down through the prophets to the idea 
of divinity as taught by Jesus. Let the reader 
lay aside his prejudice, if any he has, be hon¬ 
est with himself, and compare Jehovah of the 
early Jews with Jesus’ portrayal of God as a 
father, as one whose synonym is live. 
Jehovah, according to the early writers, was 
stern, wrathful, vengeful—“I will mock you in 
your calamities”; vain and jealous—“I, the 
Lord thy God, am a jealous God”; cruel—hard¬ 
ening the hearts of his powerless victims in 
order to punish them for doing what they could 
not help doing, and according to Joshua, Je¬ 
hovah commanded him to kill all his enemies, 
old and young, even the children, and he gave 
the captured wives of the enemy to the sol¬ 
diers of the Jewish army; deceptive—“I have 
sent lying spirits unto Aliab”; in short, and in 
very truth, he was a god having all the frail¬ 
ties and imperfections of man, and not man at 
his best either. 
Take the Genesis story of creation:—When 
Jehovah created Adam he knew (being an all¬ 
wise God) that Adam would fall. Therefore, 
Adam could not have done otherwise than to 
