River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-10-28

the higher. DR.. Foster in his recent
book chooses the naturalistic type of
evolution, which places him not only
outside the Christian ranks, but also
outside the drift of up-to-date scien-
tific thinking. A book by George Pau
lin, recently published by Scribner's,
entitled mo Struggle for Existence;
No Natural Selection" gives facts and
reasons enough to shake confidence
in these two basal claims of Darwin
ian evolution. and within the last few
years mutation" has raised presump.
ton against natural selection"
DR.. N. S. Shaler, geological profess
sor in Harvard university, wrote in
1908: 1T begins to be evident to
naturalists that the Darwinian hypoth.
esis is still essentially unverified.
Notwithstanding the evidence de.
rived from the study of animals and
plants under domestication, it is not
yet proved that single species of the
two or three millions now inhabiting
the earth had been established solely,
or mainly, by the operation of natural
selection" :.
DR.. Etheridge of the British mu.
scum, famous as a Psychologist, has
passed the following criticism upon
evolution: I'm all this great museum
there is not particle of evidence of
transmutation of species. Nine-tenths
of the talk of evolutionists is sheer
nonsense, not founded on observation
and wholly unsupported by fact. This
museum is full of proofs of the utter
falsity Of their views"
Prof. Lionel S. Beale of Kings col
lege, London, distinguished in the
world of physiology, anatomy and
pathology in an address to the Vic
toria institute, said: "The idea of
any relation having been established
between the non-living and living, by
a gradual advance from lifeless mat
ter to the lowest form of life and so
onward to the higher and more COM
pick, has not the slightest evidence
from the facts of any section of living
nature of which anything is known.
There is no evidence that man has de-
scended from, or is, or was, in any
way specially related to, any other
organism in nature through evolution
or by any other process. In support
of all naturalistic conjectures concern
ing mans growth, there is not at this
time a shadow of scientific evidence"
Prof. Virchow of Berlin, who has
been called the foremost chemist on
the globe, gives no uncertain sound
when he says: "It cannot be proved
by science that man descends from
the ape or from any other animal.
Since the announcement of the theory
all real scientific knowledge has pro-
ceeded in the opposite direction. The
attempt to find the transition from
animal to man has ended in total
failure. The middle link has not been
found and never will be. 1t has been
proved beyond doubt that during the
5000 years there has been no notice
able change in mankind"
This improved and now discredited,
if not collapsed hypothesis of evolu-
ton is responsible for the conclusions
of the Destructive Higher Criticism.
It is robbing the world of it's God,
man of his Saviour and the church of
her Bible A few years ago it in
formed us that Moses could not have
written the Pentateuch because, &C.
cording to the laws of evolution,
there could have been no written Ian
guage at the time of Moses. But the
discovery of buried libraries with
thousands of books written hundreds
of years before Moses was born has
silenced that claim, and the testimony
of the pick and shovel has kept on re-
futing the conclusions of evolution
If layman will accept the dictum
of some scientists as authoritative,
and in doing so surrender his right to
think for himself, he can be an evolu-
zionist; but any one with gray mat
ter in his brain, if he will let that
gray matter work, must be convinced
that the claims of evolution are Wis
ionary. On the very threshold we are
confronted by the fact that embry-
onic. even immature, life is not re-
productive. Eggs do not hatch eggs.
Babies never bear babies. Only the
mature product can reproduce itself.
Even the lowest forms of life are not
till they attain maturity.
Darwin's primordial germ would,
therefore, demand miracle for its
and a series of miracles
for its reproduction If the egg was
created before the eagle it would re-
uuire a million miracles to evolve an
eagle out of it, and without the care
of motherhood. But if the eagle,
male and female, were created first,
would be natural pro-
cess. God Almighty can create
eagles as easily as eggs, while man is
as HELPLESS with the one as the other.
The first chapter of Genesis plainly
teaches that the mature, reproductive
product from grass to man came first
and every known fact in nature de-
mands that order. The evolutionist,
seeing things about him growing from
the germ to the mature product, i'm
AGNES that in the distant past germ
somehow came into existence, and
from this germ all living things were
evolved. But his imagination blinds
him to the fact that this germ could
not reproduce itself without a long
series of miracles. He is doubtless
tempted to imagine that the germ
came first, because it seems to be
easier to account for germ without
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