The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-02-20
Communicated.
TURNKEY Oh EVOLUTION.
MR.. TuRNEy vs.. MR.. DARWIN.

] mcrous and varied forms oi animal lifc have
/ been wholly produced or developed up from
some single primary form. or rs they now
| prefer to state it.. from few primary forms.
| 10y the action of laws which are operating on
| everything around Us.
The Eyoutionst believes that by minute
variations. graduating by insensible stages
| from this form or these forms into some
thing higher-which insUnsiblc gradatious
went on increasingly and increasingly. gen.
or ton after generation. through incalc,,la-
hle agcs--one species OF creature after another
has evoiutioncd" upon the world the
larvae of Ascidians or tadpocs eyoMtinc TO
iish-iishes becoming Amrhibans-Amph
ians turning into rcptile>-rcptilcs develop
ng into birds. and these into mammals. in
Guiding the Old World Monkey. and from
thence. through u long series of now van
ished forms. the climax Of perfection was
reached IN the evolution ofman.
10 weighs nothing with an Evolutioni>t
that there are ancient documents that MANY
Of the stTonge., intelccts esteem To- be of y
divine origin. in which ii j. certified that
our tIs; ancestors were a separate and point
blank creation. The Eyoluiion,t drnie. all
recognition of the God who made man male
and female. with an everlasting dual-uniy
OF the twain n right counterparts.
The philO.ophic traces that human nature
had such an alliance with the Divine, and
the written traditions Of all civilized people
ldcnOminated history, together with the
general sentiment and belief OF the human
race. must he steadily ignored, and wings of
ina .ination must be busy to wan men 10y
the route oi a long series of suppose d-once-
to-hayc-been form.. which are now totally
extinct and unindahle, to progressive pa.
ren,age either in monkeys or taipoe-like
hscidians.
Mr.. Darwin, finding absolutely
NOT PACT
Either in the records of geology, or on the
pages of history. or from present experience
and experiment. that can be cited a.
| proof OF evolution. Is compelled to rest the
| argument for his hypothesis exclusively up
! on points OF similarity between the bodily
| structure OF man and that OF the lower an
finals yet a. man must have an animal ma
| ture for certain earthly reasons aud pur-
poses, his bodily frame may very apprO-
! pfiately be constructed ike that OF animals.
without furnishing IN iota Of proof Tor er-
| olution.
! Mr.. Darwin, in his earlier works. made
Natural Selection his hobby. the only mod
| flying agency. In fact, he made natural
selection do it all. and could see 10 other
power at work: but now driven 10 shift his
support. Mr. Darwin makes the admission.
mou,e-like as you please, ~ probably at
| tributed too much TO the action of Natural
Selection: only now he shifts over to
"sexual SELECTION" the acts OF g the na.
ture and constitutlon VI the organism it,
SELF and to unknown agencies" More
| over, be brings in all these things. help.
Ing to produce those things for which natu-
| raj selection alone was responsible, accord
ing TO hi own former hypothesis.
| Thus, with an increasement OF his knowl-
edge Of animated nature, he reluctantly
| dlscloses-that there are powers unc agen.
cies at work. in relation TO life, which battle
the kecnest gaze. The mystery that thus
veil. life. I'm it,, origin .and nature. from the
penetrative eye OF scientific Research, shows
! the need of egiilaiiyc re velation from God
TO unfold to man the powers and processe,
4 i'm inn IixHt,
! or creature.
But what proof has Mr.. Darwin's hypoth-
esis. even A. now presented: None what
| ever.
Mr.. Darwin does not even pretend TO fur.
| ni,h any undeniabe fact to show even the
possibility of such an evolution a. he adyo-
GATES.
He shuns all appeal 20 history. and dis
cards the experience OF living men.
He has avery niInble 1ea-like fancy about
| LONG PERIODS
| OF time being nee dful to and for the eyolu.
| ton OF new spccies,-which enormous peri
DDS imaginatively contain numerous sue
cessiye generations, each an impcreeptible
Improvement on its predecessor.
This suggests, II may so express 1t,
PLAIN POINT
FOR the mind to focus upon. r15-'Thc enor-
, nous periods are required. that there may
be many generations but 1t does not de.
mahd al argument TO show that, in the cas-.
, would be less than in the case Of man.
suppose three generations OF men to the
0 century. (which equals ninety (S0) generation.
in 1900 years-the historic period during
which Genealogical speculatons have beer
perpetuated. In this uudeniably histori,
, period, there were no less than three thou !,
and generations Of those numerous crea
e lures that give birth 10 a fresh progeny
J. AT least every year. and sometimes oftenel
than than that. Thus. 5000 generations o.
these lower animals have been produced
| since the setting in Of the historic period
Take, then. any animal that has oii-priDl
! within year OF its own birth and Their,
are some number Of references given in
: the writings Of ancient naturalists 10 many
G species OF such annualy-generating animals
. and from them those yearly producers wer,
Just such a. are now found. More than al
this, sundry pictures which are found on an
! cicnt monuments, bear the same testimony
n Besides, some naturalist- Of our own time
having discovered skeletons of certain OF
= these, compared some of our year-bred AN
, finals with their progcnitors OF three thgus
sand years ago.
. Did that investigation show, In the case O
any of them, the least advancement tO,yar,
some higher form: IL did not, u all well-in
formed men learned last year. They failed
| 70 ma even one case favorable to Darwin
although the investigation was undertaken
IN the interest Oi hi, Hypothesis.
AGAIN, may we ask what Of certain prnc
teal experiments; Take natural selection
IL directed by man. Cattle.breeding il nc
\ novelty; aud for every three thousand year,
. We have records OF the ingenuity OF mar
IN breeding animals. But in all this time
l. admitting the important modification,
, | which have been produced, has the nr,t
> thing been done toward getting up new
!, 'peciesI Science, history and living wit
l ue,ses, must answer. no" The crossing
different species cannot do II; for expert
' ment, the true test of science, has shown II
v u thousand ways that the curse of -terility
! rests on every creature produced beyond
the natural limits of its own kind. Sucb
I creatures have no power Of propagation.
Man possesses capacity for the highly
complex feeling OF religious devotion, OF
which the lower animals are not wholly DIES.
!, utnie, but they manifest no tendency 10 de.
y velop such capacity; and the reason is, man
mas moral nature in which none of the
I lower animals share.
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