The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-05-14
EVOLUTION AND REV. TURNEY.

CAIRO, May -, 1873.
Mr.. EDrroR-That bag of words over
the name of Rev. ID. B. Turney has again
opened it, cspacious mouth, and such h
noise and torrent rushed therefrom A. 10
utterly annihila,e those scientific pre-
tenders, Darwin, Huxley, Tyntal,
Buchner, Haskell. Dugordin, q iatrefoges,
Muller, Vogt, Denton and III. thousand
other scientific men who believe in the
evolution theory. | feel sorry for these
poor men, and lament their sad fate
D. low destructive must have boen the
blast from that eteminatc gss-pipe, under
80 wonderful ego.istlc pres Tbs
nonde'eripi, is himself ioieraoIe
evidence OF sort Of n
transition, probably from blatant
brassyness to respectable modesty, only
the transition Las rs yet furnished no per-
ceptlbIe evidence vi having commenced IN
his case. We at one time considered lur-
ney honest, but his article in The BCLLE-
riS OF May 10 l. evidence OF ire1peti-
enced toolIshness and knsvlshne's very
badly mixed. In the above named article
he calls Gpliileo . theolugiHn, and tie
priests Of his day scientists like unto Oar
win, Tyndall, buchner, and all who be-
lieve IN toe evolution theory thus knay'
lshly and stupldly presumIng upon the Ig-
noranca OF his Readers.
Friend Turney now calls tor proof oil
the evolution doctrine, and talk M though
the miraculous origin OF lie MAJ been
demonstrated TO Il certainly NOW We O'
the evolution faith, would IKE - hear or
see II little proof oil the beautiful assanp'
tiops of these miraculous believers. MI
T. viii no doubt admit that the world Ia.
existed for millions OF ages, and that from
the time Of mans frst.appenrahce upon
tAi. little planet to the time he learned u
| write long ages must have passed away
| Now after all this had TRANSFERRED some ~
/ norane mythiher makes aud tells M
l sLsurd story, and some one else no
one knows who long time aterward
writes this story c. that IN the beglh'hs
a very large man, potter iashloh iro'h
mud made very small man, anc olhe'
| forms of life and then conlurer iashloh
| bowed into their noses ana presto mess
mud mouldings became living beings
How scientific What grand e1plaha'
ton of the origin OF the lite phenomena
Well, did Turney or any OF his friends
ever zee this very large man they have
called God moulding mud into men and
animals, potter fashion? If he has no
and does not know anybody that has
think he had better keep that nois!
mouth of his otherwise employed, thau
in blowing about the scientific cyidehc
of the miraculous or mosaic account OF
creation, for this story is too absurd to b
talked about among men of science.
Well, this insAnely egotistic Turney !
excusable for thinking that Denton wi
not get twenty ont to hear him when
8 comes TO Cairo again. He reason
thusly am a great scientific ana elo
s ouent orator, and yet have never pee
.ble 10 get bakers dozen out to near III
wonderful efforts because the people WI
Z no, come to hear me, great man the
will not come to hear Denton. BAT irien
Turney. in this you are mistaken ~
" raasnn that no one comes out to hear yt
ia that YOU look SO much like hoOu,
and act and talk SO much like noodI
o that the people, pretty school-ieachers NJ
ALI. really believe you are noodle III
therefore do not wish to hear your RAJ
ing nonsense
90 You thought to homie yourself by
plying to Denton, and thus WIN inc lAS
of that proud and pretty school-teact
90 who now refuses to let yol, WI
with her to church. And u
> you thought when your learn
and eloquence had won her favor, oil
. sweet words You would whisper in
- ear. But alas the best laid plans OF ~ ~
. and men aft gang rang, and so poor !
ney's plan is thus aborted, and he disco
ISOLATE, having borrowed dollar AM
half from some compassionate soui,
for other vineyards In which to gat
grapes, but they too have soured on
and still think his long ears
not sufficiently conspicuous, he prop
IS to write himself into notoriety but
~ will find that he is yet barking up
wrong tree for the noise to be heard a
and so conclude that evolution is the
q. and only hope Of friend Turney, for tn
the by after long time of upward evolut
ten. he may acquire possibly little com
eos' sense and the rudimsnts of some OF
sciences. CRucIaLr No