The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1892-06-07


history where il SO properly belongs.
Many persons believe all evolution.
lists to be atheists, infidels, moral lep.
ers, when indeed many of them an
the firmest believers IN q Sod any
where to be found
A lecture on does Life End
All, by fat face maker from tic
the centre Of the A merican wheel, id
which The lecturer deals cold show
eli baths for ali who care Ia think
according to the light they have,
which lecture is devoid OF single
healthy scientific fact on truth, and
which at most is dead and stagnant
water from the arid region of his
mind maae posg4ble Il ~ sii, NJ
hull chunks of manufactured ice by
the ammonia process, which pro-
Eiuces an intellectual collie as soon
is ii is down, is the revelation of a
supposed fact to some. They are
satisfied that this man knows all
about the hereafter though be has
never been there, and that evolution
is something stated as a fact, which
if believed ia will destroy their
chances Of d life hereafter.
The educated pulpit and pew of
our land now incline to the theory
of evolution. 1T is the most healthy
stimulus minister; can have il he
wishes to preach God in the plants,
in the animals and in the rocks, as
well as in the skies. Properly I'M
derstood, the theory is reasonable to
all persons sufficiently informed as
to the facts Of the organic nature.
But to understand it as a theory
even and to fully appreciate its i'm
portance and scope, it is necessary
to have information in botony, zool-
ogy, anatomy. The structure plans of
plants and animals must be known.
The conditions of homologous Or
gans in all plants and animals must
be studied. Analogy must form a
part of the evolutionist's knowledge.
Evolution is theory, not q fact.
If men kne,O all about the origin of
man and beast, rock and plant, they
would have knowledge based on fact
and there would be no room for the
Eyolutionist's theory or that of the
special creationists.
Students of nature see seeming
relation and similarity existing in
different members of the plant and
animal world. The embyologist
knows the invertebrate, and yerte-
hrate stage of nan, knows he has
'giIls and tail; has heart like a
reptile and circulates three kinds of
blood before he is born. The com
.parative anatomist sees outlined in
the sea-urchin all the divisions of
the vertebrate alimentary canal,
The heart of the crocodile is like
that Of birds and man, and at the
same time reptilian in its functions.
It's stomach too shows its relation
to the ayes and the reptilia, if
the polished Frenchman Button did
declare it an insect. The human
form devine is burdened with organs
enjoyed bp animals all the way
down the scale of creation. The
splun, thyroid and thymus glands
are still puzzling men. The eyelid
of birds, the muscles of skin twich-
ing and ear working animals, the
brain and skeleton of apes and
monkeys and the circulation of
snakes seem to have no legitimate
place in the formation of man.
Still human anatomists tell US they,
and many more useless organs and
functions constitute man as he is
now and here. How is this? Did
God create laws and, matter and
conditions and possibilities of cause
and effect, and permit a relation
ship to be worked out by all exist
ing things.
The evolutionist says yes, this har-
mony, similarity and often identity
between animals and plants seems
to me to say that one has evolved
the. other. BY this / can under
stand why the human form contains
many things called rudiments, which
now are useless and sometimes in
furious. By the special creation
theory God seems to have made mis-
takes. According to the theory OF
evolution many things are explained
in a way which are not explained at
all by any other theory Evolution
makes no claim to account for the
origin Of life, has nothing to do with
the destiny Of man after death. It
is . theory developed here applied
to things ii this world now. All
evolutionists start with life here.
All believe in the creation of matter
and law and condition. They have
a firm belief in God. Their concep-
tion Of him is great and liberal and
broad and grand, their work is the
study Of nature and in prosecuting
that study. Their idea Of Deity is
magnified and expanded. There il
nothing in the great realm of nature
to dwarf and minify the conception
Of the great eternal. The evolution,
ist sees the indelible imprint Of the
image of God Oh the blow Of every
member of the great household d
nature. The genius Of Darwin may
inspire the intellect of Haecke, in
struct and stimulate, but they are
but parts of the great book Of evi.
ldence for the life beyond the grave
AS he arouses from peaceful slum-
Der and emerges from the mysteries