The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1898-09-09
Rev. DR.. Talmage Says Evolution
Is Atheistic and Absurd.
Human Beings Have IN Grander An
cestry Than the Beasts, the Mas
terpiece of Gods Wisdom Be-
ing Our EnthFOnement.

and creeping things"
This is a full-length portrait of an
evolutionist who substitutes the bes-
tial origin for the Divine origin.
| showed you last week that evolution
was contradicted by the Bible, by sci
ence, by observation and by common
| sense; that the Bible account of the
| creation of man and of brute and OF
/ the world and the evolutionist's ac-
count collided with each other, as Ger
tainly as two express trains going in
| opposite directions at 60 miles the
hour, their locomotives meeting on the
same track. / showed that all the
evolution scientists, without any ex-
ception, were pronounced infidels;
that evolution was a heathenism thou
sands of years old; that such men as
Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Fara-
day and Dawson and Dana had for that
doctrine of evolution unlimited con-
tempt. l showed you that their IA
vorite theory of the Survival of the
fittest" was an absurdity and an I'M
truth, and that natural evolution was
always downward and never upward,
and that there had never been any i'm
provement for man or beast or would
be except through the direct or indirect
influence of our glorious Christianity.
And in the closing part of that ser
mon : told you / was not a pessimist,
but an Optimist, that instead of it be-
ing IL o'clock at night it is $3.50 in the
morning.
Now, / go on to tell you, it seems to
me that evolutionists are trying to
impress the great masses of the people
with the idea that there is an ances-
trail line leading from the primal germ
on up through the serpent, and on up
through the quadruped, and on up
through the gorilla to man. They adj
nit there is a missing link" as they
call it, but there is not a missing link
/ is a whole chain gone. Between the
physical construction of the highest
animal. and the physical construction
Of che lowest man, there is a chasm as
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolu-
t!Onists tell us that somewhere in Cen
trail Africa, or in Borneo, there is A
creature half way between the brute
and the man, and that that creature
il the highest step in the animal ascent
AID the lowest step in the human crea-
tiCn. But what are the facts? The
brain of the largest gorilla that was
ev-- found is 30 cubic inches, while the
brain of the most ignorant man that
was ever found is 20. Vast difference
between 80 and 20. 1t needs a bridge
If 40 arches to span that gulf.
Besides that, there is difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of nerve, difference of muscle,
q difference of bone, a difference of
sinew. The horse is more like man in
Intelligence, the bird is more like him
in musical capacity, the mastiff is
more ike him in affection. That eulo-
gized beast of which we hear so much
represented on the walls of cities
thousands of years ago, is just as COM
7 lete as ii is now, showing that there
has not been particle of change.
BESIDES that, if a pair of apes had a
man for descendant. why would not all
the apes have the same kind of de-
scendants? Can it be that that one
favored pair only was favored with
human progeny? Besides that, evolu-
ton says that one species rises to an
ether species, the old type dies off.
Ten how is IT that there are whole
Kingdoms of chimpanzee and gorilla
an baboon?
The evolutionists have come to-
gether and have tried to explain a
birds wing. Their theory has always
been that a faculty of an animal while
being developed must always be useful
and always beneficial, but the wing
of bird, in the thousands of years it
was being developed, so far from be-
ing any help must have been a him
drance until ii could be brought into
practical use away on down the ages.
Must there not have been an intelli-
gent will somewhere that formed that
wonderful flying instrument, so that
bird 500 times heavier than the air
can mount il and put gravitation IN
der claw and beak? That wonderful
mechanical instrument, the wing, with
between 20 and 80 different apparati
curiously constructed, does it not i'm
ply a divine intelligence? Does it not
imply a direct act of some outside be-
ing? All the evolutions in the world
cannot explain a birds wing, or an
insects wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rat
tie of the rattlesnake. Ages before
the reptile had any enemies, this warn
ing weapon was created. Why was it
created? When the reptile, far back
in the ages had no enemies, why this
warning weapon? There must have
been a divine intelligence fOreseeing
and knowing that in ages to come
that reptile would have enemies, and
then this warning weapon would be
brought into use. You see evolution
at every step is contradiction or
monstrosity. At every stage of ami
NAL life as well as at every stage OF
human life, there is evidence OF direct
action of divine will.
Besides that, il is very evident from
another fact that we are an entirely
different creation, and that there is
no kinship. The animal in few hours
or months comes to full strength and
can take care of itself. The human
race for the first one, two, three, five,
ten years is in complete helplessness.
The chick just come out of the shell
begins TO pick up it's own food. The
dog, the wolf, the lion, soon earn their
own livelihood and act for their own
defense. The human race does not
come to development until 20 or 30
years of age, and by that time the
animals that were born the same year
the man was born-the vast majority
CT them have died of old age. This
shows there is no kinship, there is no
similarity. If we had been born of
the beast we would have had the
beasts strength at the start, or it