Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-09-08
DARWIN'S DOCTRINE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage Says Evolution
Is Atheistic and Absurd.
Human beings Have n Grander An.
cestry Than the Beasts, the Mns-
tcrpiece of Gods Wisdom lie
Ing Our EDthrOncment.

traulCllOn 10 IN lHnuel eVOIuilOll, ant
declares that the only radically i'm
proving force In the world Is Chris
tianity Text, Romans l., ~, %: PRO
Tossing themselves to be wise, they
became fools, and changed the glory
of the uncorruptible God into al
image made like to corruptible man
and to birds and four-footed bcasti
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 contradcred 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 evolutionists ae-
count collided with each other, as GER
taiDly as two express trains going In
opposite directions ut 60 miles the
hour. their locomotives meeting on the
same track. | showed that all the
evolution scientists, without any ex-
ception, were pronounced lnfidels;
that evolution was 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. showed you that their IA
vorlte theory OF the survival OF the
httest" was an absurdity and an un-
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 pessimlst,
but an optimist that instead Of II be-
ing II o'clock at night 1t is $3.50 In tho
morning.
Now, go on to tell you, 1t seems to
me that evolutionists are trying to
impress the great masses of the people
with the idea that there Is an ances-
trial line leading from the primal germ
on up through the serpent, and on up
through the qundrupcd, and on up
through the gorilla to man, They adj
nit there is n "nssing link" ms they
call II, but there is not missing link
IL liz n whole chain gone. Between the
physical construction of the highest
animal, and the physical construction
OF the lowest man, there Is n chasm ms
wide us the Atlantic ocean. Evolu-
tionists tell ny that somewhere in Cen
tral Africa. or In Borneo, there Is a
creature hulf way between the brute
and the man, and that that creature
Is the highest step In the animal ascent
mad the lowest step In the human crea-
tiGn, But what are the factsP The
brain Of the largest gorilla that was
=, found is 30 cubic inches, while the
brain of the most ignorant man that
was ever found is 10. Vast difference
between 30 and 70. II needs n bridge
Of 40 arches to span that gulf.
Besides that, there Is n difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of nerve, n difference of muscle,
difference OF bone, difference of
Binew. The horse Is more like man In
Intelligence, the bird is more like him
In musical capacity, the mnstiT Is
more Ike him in affection That culo-
gized beast OF which we hear so much,
represented on the walls OF cities
thousands of years ago, Is just MS com
Ilete as 1t Is now, showing that there
has not been Il particle of change.
Besides Tint II n pair of apes had n
man for descendant, why would not all
hn Iva, nj NJ do
sccndants? Can II 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 of,
TEN how Is il that there are whole
kingdoms of chimpauacc and gorilla
AN, baboon?
The esolutiousts have come to-
gether and have tried to axplain n
birds wing. Their theory has always
been that II faculty Of an animal while
being developed must always he useful
and always beneficial, but the wing
Of bird, in the thousands OF years II
was being developed, so far from be.
ing any help must have been hin
drancr until IL could he brought into
practical use away on down he ages
Must there not have been an intclli
gent will somewhere that formed that
wonderful dying instrument, so that
n bird 500 times heavier than the air
can mount II and put gravitutiun I'm,
der claw and heak? That wonderful
mechanical instrument, the wing, with
between 20 aud 30 different apparat
curiously constructed does ii not i'm
ply II divine intelligence Does II no.
imply direct act of some outside be
ing? All the evolutions In the worlC
cannot explain II birds wing, or II,
insects wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rat
tie OF the ruttlesnnke. Ages befor'
the reptile had any enemies. this warn
ing weapon was created. Why was /
createdp When the reptile, far bacl
in the ages had no enemies, why thi
warning weapon There must hay,
been divine intelligence forcseeini
and knowing that in ages to COM
that reptile wonlG have enemies, an,
then this warning weapon would b.