Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-02-02
EVOLUTION.

lIho m bringing out arguments in oppo-
 sition to the Darwin theory of evolution.
 George Tcnor Curtis in this country
 has very able article in the Manhattan
 Magazine, entitled Creation or Evolu-
 ton" m which he takes strong grounds
 against the laws of evolution as laid down
 by Darwin. "No breeder of horses, Says
 MT. Curtis, ''has ever produced an ari-
 mallthat was not horse. Ther how many
 have brought about great and important improvements in the qualities of bis
 teetness, or strength, or weight, or en- | duranoe, but the raee-hoTse, or the draft
 horse or wsr-hoIse, is but horse of ! different qualities, with the same skele- ton, viscera, orgHns, and muscles, which mark this species of animal, and no oth- CT variatIons of structure than such as follow from the limited development of | different parts for different uses" This lIne of argument IS continued at some length, embracing numerous species of animals and birds, all of which he finds bring forth after their kind.
 On the 2lst instant, Sir Edmond Beckett, Bart, addressed especially con- vened meeting before the members of the Victoria Philosophical Institute of London, a socIety consisting O, Ameri- cans and Englishmen founded to In- vestigate all scientific questions, especially any said to initiate against the truth of the Bible. In it he, as a scientific man described, in popular language, the laws of nature, reviewing the steps Tn the progress of scientific re- search recently made in various coun- trles, and showing how they bore on the question. Is all creation, in its perfect arrangement, its beauty and grandeur, selfevolved, as some assert; or are we not compelled, after patient investiga- ton of its many departments, to con fess that there Is something, which We are forced to recognize, evidences the existence of one Great, sll-controlling, wise mind?
 "If, says Sir Edmund Beckett, ga child l can be born with six fingers, or 'cslcu- l lating boy who sees by instinct results | which would take long tune Co calou- late, or men of prodigious strength or genius, from parents who had no such l powers, 1t is plain that entirely new or gans and powers can be produced at | once; that is, created without passing l through infinitely small stages of devel- | opmenf. Therefore there Is some power | at work which has made laws of nature | beyond our knowledge, capable of pro ducing new creatures, whether fruits, | organs, animals, or functions and in- stinct-, complete h themselves, and su- perIor to theIr parents. T. tbat is not design, what would be?
 Nor can the evolutionists account for the still earlier process of any kind of generation with ut some creative power to produce It. That also they quietly slide over as if it's commences was sufficient to have begun It. And so they do with all the phenomena of orOss- fertilization, as if 1t were self-eyldent truth or axiom like two straight lines cannot enclose a space,') that touching what is called female seed of one thing with the male seed of another, Tot too | different, must produce offspring more or less like them both. q use tine word "seed" here Il its most primitive sense, | not that ot finished seeds or eEgs.j If | We arc to assume such mysteries" as | these to be necessary truths or automatic | processes requiring no designing power to produce them, We might just as well | assume the automatic existence of everything at first, with automatic powers of creating their successors; for generation IS created, whether of like or unlike successors"