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EVOLUTION MADE PLAIN 
yield to temptation; for to have resisted would 
have proved God’s foreknowledge false. Then 
why pronounce a curse on one (and his bil¬ 
lions of descendants) for doing what God’s 
foreknowledge made unavoidable? 
Again it is said that when Jehovah made up 
his mind to destroy the human race “it re¬ 
pented the Lord that he had made man on the 
earth”—that is, he had made a mistake, like 
you and I, and was sorry of it, like you and I. 
How like a man was Jehovah in his short¬ 
sightedness! 
And this is a part of that story of the origin 
of man which we are asked to accept by the 
anti-evolutionists instead of the scientific ex¬ 
planation. 
Before history there was mythology. Beyond 
the earliest ascertained historic facts of every 
people, of every early nation, was a mass of 
myths portraying its childish beliefs concern¬ 
ing its origin, its gods, its heroes, etc. The 
Jewish nation was no exception. Scriptural 
literalists, those who believe in the verbal in¬ 
spiration of the Bible, know that all ancient 
peoples had their myths—all except the Jews. 
In the face of a million facts they still contend 
that the impossible stories of the early Jews 
are true as gospel—in fact that they are a part 
of the gospel. 
The greatest obstacle to the popular accept¬ 
ance of the doctrine of evolution is a belief 
in the verbal inspiration of the Bible and its 
literal interpretation. The more conservative 
or orthodox element of the churches regards 
the Bible as a direct quotation of the exact 
