Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-12-14
LEDGER,
weans.aal EvsnlnE. Dec. q. Issl.
EVOLUTION.

EDIroR LEDaER:-Some one lately
ssked me, "What isall this tomfoolery
about evolution, and sending the Bible
20 the rear2"
This set me to thinking about the
aotGal harm these evolutionists are
doing. aud reminded me also that the
people, generally, seldom read anything
Of a practical nature confuting the
dangerous doctrine. l thought |
would try my hand at something plain
and short, which the general reader
could understand, and SO set me to
work at it; but the more / tried the
harder it seemed to accomplish. The
hard words would come nand the fine
spun theories seemed TO require quite
a volume for reply. l soon discovered
hat l was not a frst-rate
naturalists, SO l have concluded
to write like a plain man talks, and
only for a few lines.
The scientists speak Of FIRE mist.
cosmic vapor, infusory matters, ami
malicules, atoms, spores, nucleted
vessicles, nerve fibre, the organic from
the inorganic, Chalde,n mud, the
formed from the lormless, spontaneous
generation, transmutation of atoms,
genesi Of species, protoplasm, ascidi-
ans, ,vertibrates ,unicellula rcorpuscles,
Shiny ooze, nitrogenized compounds
and monera. Now what ordinary
reader cares a cent for such things?
Bring us to your point, MI. Evoluter.
Well, monera are simple particles Of
protoplasm, originating from dead
MATERIAL humbug. Some monera
tend toward protistic, some toward
yegetal and some to animal modes Of
life. The animal modes become worms
and sponges. All of this is guess work;
all or nearly all Of the authors writing
for evolution acknowledge il, yet
on this baseless fabric they say that
we people spring from that worm.
They start US out like a small clot
of Jelly fish or a tsdpOle and
evolute us into snakes, frogs, fish, birds,
bears, horses, elephants, monkeys,
apes, and men, tracing, or pretending
to trace (using all Of the jswbreakers
/ have written down, with the Lord
only knows how many more) the mind,
Che soul, the feelings through an abb
surd graduation from a little nerve
center, or ganglin, in the clot of origi-
nal Jelly, Chaldean mud, protoplasm,
or unieellular viscicle, up to the mas
sive intellect Of Daniel Webster.
These writer's are not, perhaps. use
less in the world. The minds Of men
are seething in the abyss Of thought;
they take hold of curious ideas aud
evolve some pleasant reading. The
philosopher will neglect wife, children,
mother in law, grandmother, or a rich
uncle to pop away at his fayorite
theme, and die poor to be buried at
the expense Of the county, just SO he is
able to hold a hand with the other
professors in the building up ofodd air
castle arguments about the fire mist
from which all tho world and its con-
tents originated. So tickled are they
with themselves that they will wander
out day by day, like Grant Allen, and
jot down really pleasant reading, full
of the most utter absurdities, yet
such as we cannot disprOve, for we
can't fight his first hypothesis, be-
cause we can't deny what neither
Grant Allen, nor Huxley, nor any Of
us know anything about. They say
we don't know anything about what
the Bible tells US Of the creation but
the Bible gives a simple and a more
plausible story. Its truth is being
attested by fresh historical diseov-
cries every day, while none Of the
scientists can give us a better exp0si-
ton Of evolution than the turning ola
tadpole into a frog, the truth Of
which no countryman will deny.
Why, we ask, has no one ever traced
the life Of man from the Chaldean mud
up to the baby? The evolutionists
say that it has taken aeous (ages) to Dc
it. Just so. Then why don't we find
man in his half formed shape-part
fish, part elephant, part horse par
snake2 Do hear the self confident
scientist laugh and refer 10 the natures
Of some men as bearish, doggish
snakish2 Let him laugh. We clinl
to the old way Of forming mau TO thu
old, sound doctrine Of the breath o
life blown into the body by the Holl
Ghost-the Ever Living. the Omnipo
tent. the Gracious and Reverend Goo
of our mothers and the Bibles teach
ing. We hold that the soul is immor
tai, the body mortal, that God mad
man a separate species from the begin
ming, to be crossed on no other. Their
can be no hybred man. J. L. g.