The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-04-18
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Evolution on the Back Track.

the theory of evolution is as de-
fective now as to it's proofs as it
was in the time of Darwin, but
stating that probably more be-
lieved in it at present than at that
period. The following clipping
from the Presbyterian will throw
some light upon the latter part of
the proposition:
Evolution few years ago was
all the rage in scientific and lite
rary circles. He who was slow in
accepting it, and who was bold
enough to oppose it, was counted
behind the age. But a reaction
seems to be setting in. Some who
advocated it at first are now aban-
doning it. A leading German
scientist said four or five years
ago of the system: We have gwen
it up. A few years ago it was
considered q mark of ignorance
not to believe in evolution; in a
few years from this time it will
be mark of ignorance to believe
in it,. This remark appears to
have prophetic significance.
Europe is not so enamored of the
evolutionary theory as formerly,
and it is highly probable that the
trend away from it will become
more and more manifest in our
country"
In support of this statement |
read IN a newspaper, few days
| ago, that the works of Herbert
Spencer, who as mucn as anybody
else, not even excepting Darwin
himself, represents the rational
istic school of philosophy, are now
very little read in Great Britain :;
most of Spencer's royalties from
publishers are derived, it was al
legged, from American houses.
Your Henry Ward Beechers, your
Hillises and your Briggs, with
their disgusting conceit, not ex-
cessive amount of knowledge and
intense love of notorlety, are prin-
|cipally responsible for the popu-
larity of the doctrine in this
country.
1t is ssid that q single adverse
fact will upset the finest theory
ever evolved from the brain of
man. 1t seems to me that there
are many facts repugnant to the
theory of evolution. The human
race (Which discoveries in glacial
drifts and strata of the earth
prove had an existence contempo-
raneously with many now extinct
animal forms was widely diffused
over the earth when it would have
been impossible for it to be de-
rived from the Slmians. Man ex-
listed at that remote time, not as
half ape but as a fu]l-fedged
man, as his tools, arms and imple-
ments fully prove. That the re.
mains without number of creatures
much smaller and more agile than
man, which animals it is said an
tedated him, should be discovered,
and no ape-man unearthred is in
credible. The tail is the one Pc
culiar characteristic of the verte-
brated animal kingdom extending
through all its forms up 20 the
mamalia. If man is a member of
the ape family he should have. 1t
seems to me, either a tail or the
rudiments of one. All Simians
are tree-climbers and the tail is
very important to them for pre-
tension. Being constantly used
the tail could not have been lost
III man or became rudimentarvN
according to the Darwinian theory.
The evolutionists point gleefully
to the fact of the vermifOrm ap.
pendiX in man, and assert that as
1t has no use it must have come to
him through animal ancestors
where it had an important office
to perform. | believe if records
were kept of surgical operations
1t would be found that everyone
having this organ removed Fnever
is the same individual again if he
or she survive. We do not know
its use but believe 1t has one.
If evolution is not true whence
came We? There is but one an
swer to this question. We were
called into existence by ali all
wise, all-powerful and personal
God, using no other means than
His simple fiat. l believe the
twentieth century will witness
this as the universal conclusion of
mankind.