The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-09-24
DARWIN'S DOCTRINE.
Rev. Dr.. Talmage Says Evolution
Is Atheistic and Absurd.
Human Beings Have n Grander AM
cestry Than the beasts, the Mas
terpiece of Gods Wisdom Be-
Ing Our enforcement.


DR.. Talmage in his recent discourse
advocates a Christian evolution in con-
tradiction to an infidel evolution, and
declares that the only radically inn
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 an
image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds and four-footed beasts
and creeping things"
This is 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 ae-
count collided with each other, as Ger.
tainly as two express trains going in
ODpOSllC NllCSllOAS az w lAC
hour, their locomotives meeting ON the
same track. l showed that all the
evolution scientists, without any eX-
ception, were pronounced infidels;
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
vorite theory of the Survival of the
fittest" was an absurdity and an UNI
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 rindirect
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 ad-
NIT there is missing link" as they
call it, but there is not missing link
i; is whole chain gone. Between the
physical construction of the highest
animal, and the physical construction
OF the lowest man, there is chasm as
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolu.
tionists tell us that somewhere in Cen.
trail Africa, or in Borneo, there is 6
creature half way between the brute
and the man, and that that creature
is the highest step in the animal ascent
and 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 TO- Vast difference
between 30 and 70. 1t needs bridge
Of 40 arches to span that gulf.
Besides that, there is difference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana diff
ference of nerve, a difference of muscle
difference of bone, a difference Of
sinew. The horse is more like man il
intelligence, the bird is more like hin
in musical capacity, the mastiff il
more like him in affection. That eulo
gized beast of which we hear so much
represented on the walls of cite.
thousands of years ago, is just as com
Flete as it is now, showing that there
has not been particle of change
Besides that, if pair of apes had {
man for descendant, why would not al
the apes have the same kind of de
scendants? Can it be. that that on,
favored pair only was favored will
human progeny? Besides that, evolu
ton says that one species rises to an
ether species, the old type dies off
TLen how is it that there are Who'll,
Kingdoms of chimpanzee and gorilla
AM baboon?
The evolutionists have come to
gether and have tried to explain ,
birds wing. Their theory has Away
been that faculty of an animal Will,
being developed must always be usefu
and always beneficial, but the wins
of bird, in the thousands of years i
was being developed, so far from be
ing any help must have been a hin
drance until it could be brought int
| practical use away on down the ages
Must there not have been an intelli
gent will somewhere that formed tina
wonderful flying instrument, so tina
| a bird 500 times heavier than the al
can mount it and put gravitation un
der claw and beak? That wonderful
mechanical instrument, the wing, wit
between 20 and 80 different apparat
curiously constructed, does 1t not i'm
ply divine intelligence? Does it no
imply direct act of some outside be
ing? All the evolutions in the worl
cannot explain birds wing, or a
insects wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rat
tie of the rattlesnake. Ages befor
the reptile had any enemies, this warn
ing weapon was created. Why was
created? When the reptile, far bac
IN the ages had no enemies, why thi
warning weapon? There must hav
/ I Il i.
and knowing that in ages to com
that reptile would have enemies, an
then this warning weapon would b
brought into use. You see evolution
| at every stem is n contradiction or