Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-01
EVOLUTION Is ATllElSTlC.
Ii1man EcimgS Have u Grandcr An
ccStry Than Beasts.
DarwinIan pnctrinr Guess and brutal a.
ing Masterpiece of Gods Wisdom
l. our EnIhroucmeut- sermon
bv Rev. 4. Dewitt 1nlmsgs.

Dr. Talmagc in this di>""ur>" auv"-
Gates a Christian evolution in contra
diction tn an iuiidc. evolution, and de-
ciarrs that the only radically imrr"v-
| ing force IN the world - christianity.
Text, Romans l., -, -: Processing
themselves To toe WIS.,, they became
| fools, and changed the glory Of the
uncorruptih,c Gud into an image made
| like Ia corruptIhlc man, ami To birds
and four-footcd beasts and creeping
| things.
This is q full-,ength portrait of an
! cvolutioni>t who substitutes the
! hcstial origin for the Divine origin
! | showed Won last we * that evolution
was contradictcd hy the Bible. hv
| science, by observation and 10y com
mon sense; that the liblc account
ui the creation of man and Of
| brute ami Of the world. and the
| cvulutionist'> account colIidcd with
each other, as certainly aS two cN-
press trains going in opposite direc-
| tions at TO miles at hour, their l"como-
| tivcS meeting ON the same track.
| showed that all the evolution scIcn-
| lists, without any exception, were pro
| nouncrd infidclS; that evolution was a
| hrathcnism thousands OF years old;
| that such men a. AEassiz and Hugh
| Miller aud Faraday and Dawson and
| Dana had for that doctrine of evolu-
ton unlimited contempt. | showed
| YOU that their favorItc theory of the
survival of the fiittest' was an alb
| a IA "A 4
ural evolution was always downward
and never onward, and that there
never had been any Improvement for
man or beast or would accept through
the direct or indirect influence of our
| glorious Christianity. And in the
| closing part of that sermon told you
| was not a pessimist, but an optimist,
| that instead of il being II o'clock at
night il is $50 in the morning.
Now, go on TO tell you, ii seems to
me that evolutioniSis are trying To i'm
| press the great masses of the people
with the idea that there is an anccs-
trial line leading from the primal germ
on up through the serpent. and on M
through the quadrupcd, and on IN
through the gorilla. to man. They adj
nit there is a missing link. as they
call it, but there is not a missing link
it 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. Evolutlonl>ts tell us
that somewhere in Central Africa, or
IN Borneo, there Is creature half way
between the brute and the man, and
that that creature Is the highest step
in the animal ascent ana the lowest
step in the human creation. but what
are the facts? The brain of the largest
gorilla that was ever found is so cubic
inches, while the brain OF the most lg-
norant man that was ever found Is 40.
Vast difference between 80 and 30, 1t
needs bridge OF 40 arches To span
that gulf.
Besides that, there is di ference be-
tween the gorilla and the mana DIFF
ference OF nerve, difference OF
muscle, difference OF bone, differ
ence Of sinew. The horse is more like
man in intelligence, the bird is more
| like MN IN muslcaI capacity, the mas
tiff Is more like him in affection. That
eulogized beast OF which we hear Sc
much. represented on the walls OF
cities thousands of years ago, is just as
complete as IT is now, showing that
there has not been particle OF
change. Besides that. II pair OF
apes had man for descendant, why
would not all the apes have the same
| kind of descendsDis. Ia =; he that
that one favored pair only ~ 10
vored with human progeny? Besides
that, evolution say that one species
rises to another species, the old type
dies of. Then how Is II that there are
whole Kingdoms of chimpanzee and
gorilla and baboon?
The evoiutionists have come togeth-
er and have tried to explain birds
wing. Their theory has always been
that n faculty of an animal while b =
ing developed must always be useful
and always beneficial, but the wings
of bird, in the thousands of years it
was being developed, SO far from being
any help must have been a hindrance
until IL could be brought into prac
teal use away on down in the
ages Must there have not been
an intelligent will somewhere
that formed that wonderful flying in
strument, SO that a bird five hundred
times heavier than the air can mount
il and put gravitation under claw anG
beak? That wonderful mechanical
instrument, the wing. with between
twenty and thirty different apparat
curiously constructed, does it not i'm
ply a divine intelligence? Does il moi
imply direct act of some outside be
ing? All the evolutions in the world
can not explain "A birds wing, or an
insects wing.
So they are COMPOUNDED by the rat
tie of the rattlesnalle. Ages before
the reptile had anv enemies, thi:
warning weapon was created. WHY
was il created? When the REPTILE. fal
back in the ages had no enemies, why
this warning weapon? There mus-
have been a Divine intelligence fore
seeing and knowing that in AGES I,
come that REPTILE would have enemies
and then this warning weapon would
be brought into use. You see eyolu
ton at every step is a contradiction O,
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