The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1882-1884, 1883-02-01

development al the innumerable
species of birds and beast and rep
tiles and insects and fish-hundreds
of thousands of different kinds from
one or four primal germs. Thus they
not only contradict the Bible but con-
tradict all the facts of all the centu-
ries. Bird or beast or reptile or fish
of one species never developed into
any other species. A shark never
comes of whale, nor sheep from a
COW, pigeon from a vulture, nor a
butterfly from a wasp, The Evolu-
tionists' statements that all the crea-
lures that swim in the sea or fly in
the air or walk the earth, come of
one Of four primal germs would have
been laughed out of the universe if it
were not for the fact that in order to
crush the bible and drive God out of
the world, infidel Scientists and
their disciplas are willing to
do anything. even tho h
it takes them into idiotic absurdity.
On the walls of cities buried thou
sands Of years ago there have been
found representations of horses and
cattle and birds. showing that these
creatures Of God at that day were as
they are now. The mummies of croc.
odiles and dogs and cats exhumed
from the tombs of Egypt, are just
like what those creatures are now.
Agassiz says he found in the reefs of
Florida remains of insects 10000
years old precisely like the insects
now. They never developed into
anything except their own kind. All
the facts of observation of ornitholo-
gy and zoology and ichthyology and
conchology echoing genesis, i: FL:
''Have winged fowl after its kind"
AS universal observation and science
coIroborate the bible statement in re.
gard to the animal creation, I will
not stultify my self to surrendering to
the very elaborate guess of the evol-
utionists.
l put the Bible acc cunt of how the
worlds were made in opposition to
the evolntionists' account. Bible ac-
count "God made two great lights,
the greater light to rule the day and
the lesser light to rule the night. He
made the stars also.'' Evolutionists'
account: ''Away back in the ages
there was fire mist or star dust, and
that has cooled off into granite, and
then earthquake and storrG, and light
solidifed and shaped everything into
valley, and mountains, and seas, and
that fire-mist became the earth. Who
made the fir.mist What set the
fire. mist to world making Who cool
ed the iremist into granite !? Yo:
have pushed God back from the
earth sixty or seventy millions of
miles, but He is too near for the
health of evolution. For a long
while evolutlonists, and particularly
Herbert Spencer, thought that
through the telescope they saw the
very stuff ont of which the worlds
made themselves, asking no helping
hand from God the nebul@ Of gas
the same as that out Of which this
world and all worlds were made. They
looked at it, laughed in triumph and
found it was the factory where the
worlds were male, and that there
was no God anywhere near the fac
tory. But alas. in an unlucky hour
for infdel evolution, the spectroscopes
of Frauenhofer and of Kirchof were
invented and they saw that the neb-
ula, the stuff out of which they had
said the worlds were made, was not a
simple gas as they thought, but a
compound, and that it had to be sup.
piled from some other source, and
their theory burst into everlasting
demolition
So they go, guessing all over the
universe. Anything to Danish jehovah
from His empire, and make the one
book of Gods direct communication
to the soul Of the human race obso-
lete and derision. But while a fe"
infidel scientists take the anti-bible
view of it, on our side are Agasslz
the greatest scientist we have ever
had in this country, who in the last
wear of his life uttered his contempt
of evolution in the following words
."Tbe manner in which the evolution
theory of zoology is treated, woulC
lead those who are not especial zoolo
eists to suppose that observations
have been made by which it can be
inferred that there is in nature suct
a thing as change among organized
beings actually taking place. There
is no such thing on record. 1t Is
shifting the ground from one field Of
observation to another, to make thl:
statement, and when the assertion
90 so far as to exclude from the do
main of science those who will moi
be dragged into this mire OF mere
assertion. then it is time to protest.
Just as vehement against the hum
bug of evolution have been Hugl
Miller, and Faraday, and Dana, ant
Dawson, and Brewster, and vas
| multitude of astron omers and sclen
lists in our learned institutions. Bu
a dozen men in favor of the evolu-
tionists theory make more noise thar
a thousand able men who utterly re-
iect it. The Bothnia carried 500 pas
sengers in safety from New York tt
Liverpool and not one of them made
any excitement; but one morning