The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-08-31
DARWIN THEORY.
Rev. DR.. Talnage Makes vigor-
GUS Attack Upon It
Evolution, from tho Scientists Standpoint
Denounced as y Damnable Doctrine,
Brutallzing In Its Tendency-The
Divine Evolution Described.

mage advocates Christian evolution
in preference to an infidel evolution
and says the books of Moses and Rev
elation are much better than those of
Darwin or Spencer. The text is,
Romans 1:22-23: protesting them
selves to be wise they become fools,
and changed the glory of the uncor-
ruptlble into an image made like to
corruptible man, and to birds and
tcur-footed beasts, and creeping
things"
This is full-length portrait of an
evolutionist who substitutes the bes-
tial origin for the divine origin. 1
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
talnly as two express trains going in
opposite directions at sixty miles an
hour their locomotives meeting on the
same track. l showed that all the evo-
lutionist scientists, without any excep-
ton were pronounced infdels; that
evolution was heathenism thousands
OF years old; that such men as
Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Farra
day and Dawson merit unlimited
contempt. showed you that
their favorite theory of the "sur-
vlval OF the fittest" was an absurdity
and an untruth, and that natural eyo-
luton was always downward and
never upward, and that there had
never been any improvement for man
or beast or world except through the
direct or indirect influence of our
glorious Christianity. And in the clos
ing part OF that sermon told you that
L was not pessimist, but an optimist,
that instead of it being II o'clock at
night it is half-past in the morning.
Now, go on to tell you, it seems to
me that evolutionists are trying to i'm
press the great masses of the people
with the idea that there is an ancestral
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 that there is missing link" as
they call it, but there is not a missing
hnk-it is whole chain gone. Be-
tween the physical construction of the
highest animal, and the physical con-
struction of the lowest man. there is
chasm as wide as the Atlantic ocean.
Evolutionists tell us that somewhere
in Central Africa, or in Borneo. there
la creature half way between the
brute and the man, and that the crea-
ture is the highest step in the animal
ascent and the lowest step in the hu-
man creation. But what are the facts?
The brain of the largest gorilla that
was ever found is thirty cubic inches,
while the brain of the most ignorant
man that was ever found is seventy.
Vast difference between thirty and
seventy. 1t needs a bridge of forty
arches to span that gulf.
Besides that, there is difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of blood globule, a difference
of nerve, a difference of muscle, a
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 like him in affection. The eulo-
| giZed beast of which we hear so much
| represented on the walls of cities thou
sands of years ago, is just as complete
as it is now, showing that there has
not been particle of change. Besides
that, If pair of apes had a man for
descendant, why would not all the
| apes have the same kind of descend
ants? Can it be that that one favored
pair only was honored with human
progeny? Besides that, evolution saws
that as one species rises to another
| species, the old type dies off. Then
how is it that there are whole king
doms of chimpanzee and gorilla and
baboon?
The evolutionists have come TO-
gether and have tried to explain a
birds wing. Their theory has always
been that faculty of an. animal while
being developed must always be useful
and always beneficial, but the wing of
a bird, in the thousands of years it
was being developed, so far from being
any help must have been a hindrance
until it could be brought into practical
use away down in the ages. Must
there not have been an intelligent will
somewhere that formed that wonder
full flying instrument, so that a bird
five hundred times heavier than the
air can mount it and put gravitation
under claw and beak? That wonder
full mechanical instrument, the wing.
with between twenty and thirty differ
ent apparati curiously constructed,
does it not imply divine intelligence?
Does 1t not imply direct act of some
outside being? All the evolutionists
in the world cannot explain a birds
| wing.
So they are confounded by the rattle
of the rattlesnake. Ages before that
reptile had any enemies, this warning
weapon was created. Why was it Gre
ated? When the reptile, far back in
the ages had no enemies, why this
warning weapon? There must have
been divine intelligence forseeins
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 animal
life as well as at every stage of human
life, there is evidence of direct action
of divine will
Darwin admitted that the dovecote
pigeon had not changed in thousands
of years. 1t is demonstrated over and
over again that the lizard on the low
est formation of rocks was just as
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