Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-10-07
DARWIN'sxrR!aapRINE.
N'V' Dr. Talmage Says Evolution
Is Atheistic and Absurd.
"h beings Have n Grander An.
'y rhan the Beasts, the Mns-
'erpiece of Gods Wisdom Be-
ing Our EnthrOnement.

J, " az inuuel eNolullOn, ana
ueeiares that the only radically i'm
proving force in the world is Chris
.'anlty' Text, Romans l., 22, %: PRO
,ess'ng themselves to be wise, they
'oecame fools, and changed the glory
VI the uncorruptible God into an
image made like to corruptible man,
ana to birds and four-footed beasts
and creeping things"
lhis is full-length portrait of an
e'o'utionist who substitutes the bes-
'iai origin for the Divine origin.
sho"eo you last week that evolution
was contradicted by the Bible, by sci
ehee, by observation and by common
sense; that the Bible account of the
creation of man and of brute and Of
'he world and the evolutionist's ae-
count collided with each other, as Ger.
tainly as two express trains going in
opposite directions at GO miles the
hour, their locomotives meeting on the
same track. l showed that all the
evolution scientists, without any ex-
ceptlon, were pronounced infldels;
mat evolution was heathenism thou
SANDS OF years old; that such men as
Agassiz and Hugh Miller and Fara-
Gay and Dawson and Dana had for that
doctrine of evolution unlimited con-
tempt. | showed you that their fa,
'orite 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 pessimist
but an optimist, that instead of it be-
ing II 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
/; is n whole chain gone. Between the
physical construction of the highest
animal, and the physical construction
Of the lowest man, there is a chasm as
wide as the Atlantic ocean. Evolu
tionists tell us that somewhere in Cen
trail Africa, or in Borneo, there is s
creature half way between the brute
and the man, and that that creature
j. the highest stepi 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 thC
brain of the most ignorant man thai
was ever found is 70. Vast difference
between 30 and 20. 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 O.
sinew. The horse is more like man il
Intelligence, the bird is more like hin
in musical capacity, the mastiff !!
more ike him in affection. That eulo
pized beast of which we hear so much
represented on the walls of cities
thousands of years ago, is just ms com
1lete 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 II be that that ont
favored pair only was favored will
human progeny? Besides that, evolu
ton says that one species rises to an
other species, the old type dies of
Ten how is it that there are who'll
Kingdoms of chimpanzee and gorilla
an. baboon?
The eyolutionists have come to
gether and have tried to explain
birds wing. Their theory has alway
been that a faculty of an animal whiI
beinq developed must always be usefu
and always beneficial, but the VIM
of bird, in the thousands of years
was being developed, so far from be
ing any help must have been hin
dronce until it could be brought int
practical use away on down the ages
Must there not have been an intelli
oent will somewhere that formed tina
Wonderful flying instrument, so tina
bird 500 times heavier than the al
con mount it and put gravitation I'm
dor claw and beak? That wonderful
mechanical instrument, the wing, wit
between 20 and 80 different apparat
ouriously constructed, does 1t not i'm
,Jv divine intelligence? Does IT no
in''rlv n direct act Of some outside be
,nao All the evolutions in the worl
cannot explain a birds wing or a
ne c. tbev are confounded by the rat
40 81 the rattlesnoke Ages befor
.ha ~ reptile had any en- $, this warn
M wy ,.sonon was created/ Why was
createdF When 'he 'eP'n ';aa ,rhv tbi
~ NE ages had no enemies why I'M
'ornjpg 49, weapon? There must nav
,aer a divine intelligence foreseeln
,d knowing that in ages to com
.hat " reptile would have enemies, an
.n"n % this warning weapon woulu D
,omobt ,ne into use. You see evoiu'io
ptOpH ~ syery step is contradiction or
q" onstrosity. At every stage OF an
lno ,ifc as we'll as at every stage
MAJ ma. ~ life, there is evidence OF dlrec
ution y of divine will.
aou Resides that, il is very EVIDENT ITO,
p o,hsr fact that we are an entirel
anos lisarent creation, and that there
o. n tinship. The animal in rev h'u, n y
10 N'no nntbs comes to full strength an
or or, n'u take care Of itself The huma