Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-08-25
TADPOLE AND POLLlWOG.
The Question of Human Origin Dis
cusscd by Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage.
lie Pays Respect to the Darwinian Theory
and Finds That There l. No tontrst
Between Gcnsinc Science
and Revelation.

louS ClTcltS, II hl>tHSStu III thaia'"
istic style by DIR. Talmage in this dis
course, In which he also advocates the
theory that all the worlds progress
has come through Christianity. Text:
J. Timothy vi, -: - Timothy, keep
that which is committed To thy trust.
avoiding opposition of science falsely
81 called.
There is no contest between genuine
science and revelation. The same
tod vino 10y the hand of prophet wrote
on parchment. 10y the hand of the
storm wrote on the rock. The best
telescopes and microscopes and elcc-
tric batteries and philosophical appa'
ratus belong to Christian universities
Who gave MS magnetic biography
Prof Morse. Christian. Vino swung
the lightningS under the sea. cabling
the continents together? Cyrus W.
Field, the Christian. Who discov-
cred the ancsthctical properties of
chloroform. doing more for the relief
of human pain than any man that
ever lived, driving back nine-tenths
OF the horrors of surgery? James Y.
Simpson, of Edinburgh, as eminent
for picty as for science; on week days
in the university lecturing on pro
foundest scientific subjects, and on
SabbathS preaching the Gospel OF
Jesus Christ to the masses Of Ediu-
burgh. saw the universities of that
city drapcd in mourning for his death,
and heard his eulogy pronounced by the
populations of the Cowgate. Science
and revelation are the bass soprano
of the same tune. The whole world
will yet acknowledge the complete
harmony. But between what my text
describes a. science falsely so-cal.ed and
revelation, there is an uncompromi>ing
war, and one or the other must go un-
der.
AT the present time the air is filled
with social and platform and pulpit
talk about evolution. and it is high
time that the people who have no,
time TO make investigation for them
selves understand that evolution in
the first place is up and down. out and
out intidclity; in the second place it is
contrary to the facts of science, and in
the third lace, that it is brutalizing
in its tendencies. l do not argue that
this is genuine book: do not say
that the Bible is worthy of any kind
of credencc-those are subjects for
other Sabbaths-but / want you Ia
understand that Thomas Paine and
Hume and Noltaire no more
thoroughly di>bclieved the Holy
Scriptures than do all the lead.
ing scientists who believe in evo.
luton. And when | say scientists, OF
course, do not mean literary men or
theologians. who in essay or in SER
mon. and without giving their life to
scientific investigation, look at the
subject on this side or that BY scien-
fists | mean those who have special
ty in that direction and who. through
geological garden and aquarium and
astronomical observatory, give their
life to the study of the physical earth
its plants and its animals and the re
gions beyond so far as optical instru
ments have explored them.
put III on the witness stand living
and dead the leading evolutionist,-
Ernest Heckle, John Stuart Mill, Hulk
ley, Tyndall, Darwin, Spencer. Or
the witness stand, We men of science
living and dead. answer these ques
tions: do You believe the Holy
Scriptures? No. And so they say all.
Do you believe the Bible story-oi
Alan and Eve in the Garden of Eden:
No And SO they say all. Do you be
lieve in the miracles of the Old ant
Ma, To- 20 No nj h.,
say all. Do you believe that Jesu:
Christ died to save the nations? No
And so they say all. Do you believ,
in the reCenerating power of the
Holy Ghost? No And SO they say all.
Do you believe that human supplica
tion directed Heavenward ever makes
any difference? No. And SO they say
all
Herbert Spencer, in the only address
he made in this country, in his very
first sentence ascribes his physical all
ments to fate, and the authorized re
port of that address begins the wore
fate with a big IF" Prof. Heckel. il
the very first page of his two grea
volumes sneers at the Bible as a so
called revelation. Tyndall in his fam
Gus prayer test detied the whole o
Christendom to show that human
supplication made any differenc,
in the result of things. Johr
Stuart Mill wrote deliberately agains
Christianity, and to show that his re
lection of it was complete. ordered thi
epita oh for his tombstone: Most un
happy Huxley said that at the frs
reading of Darwin's book he was con
WINGED of the fact that theology hat
received its death blow at the hand o
Mr.. Darwin. All the leading scient
lists who believe in evolution, without
one exception the world over, are in
fidel l say nothing against infidel
ity. mind you. / only wish to de fin,
the belief and the meaning or the re
lection.
Now. put opposite to each other. Il
| show that evolution is infidelity, tn
Bible account of how the human rae,
started and the evolutionist accoun
of how the human race started. Bibl,
account: God said, let MS make mar
in our image. God created man il
His own image; male and female ere
ated He them" He breathed into hin
the breath of life. the whole story set
ting forth the idea that ii was not
perfect kangaroo, or perfect ourans
outang, but a perfect man. That i
| the Bible account. The evolution nc
count: Away back in the ages taer,
were four or five primal germs. OF
seminal spores from which all tn,
living creatures have been evolved
Go away back, and there you will fin,
a vegetable stuff that might be Gale,
a mushroom. This mushroom by in
nate force develops a tadpole, the tad
pole by innate force develops a polli
wog, the polliwog develops q fish, tn,
fish by natural force develops into
reptile, the reptile develops into
quadruped, the quadruped developed
into haboon, the baboon develops in
| to "a man.
Darwin says that the human hand i
only a fish's fin developed He say
that the human lungs are only a swim
bladder showing that we once floate,
or were amphibious He says the hu
man ear could once have been move,
by force of will just as a horse lifts it
ear at a frightful object He says tn,
human race were originally web-foo,