The Brinkley argus., 1909-11-05

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 as the great First
 Cause and regards
 evolution as God s method of development from the sim pie to the complex, from the lower to 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-todate scien- tific thinking. A book by George Pau lin, recently published by Scribner's, entitled No 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- tion against natural selection"
 Dr. N. s. >Shaler, geological profes- sor in Harvard university, wrote in | 1903: Ut begins to be evident to naturalists that the Darwinian hypoth- esis is still essentially unveriied Notwithstanding the evidence de- rived from the study of animals and plants under domestication, it is not yet proved that a 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 fossilologist, has passed the following criticism upon evoluticn: Tn 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 1 a gradual advance from lifeless mat ter to the lowest form of life and so onward to the higher and more com 1 plex, has not the slightest evidence 1 from the facts of any section of living nature of which anything is known. There is no evidence that man has de- l 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: Tt 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. It has been proved beyond doubt that during the 5,o00 years there has been no notice able change in mankind"
 This improved and now discredited, if not collapsed hypothesis of evolu- tion 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, ac- cording to the laws of evolution, there could have been no written lan- 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- tionist 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 r 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 r mature product can reproduce itself ] Even the lowest forms of life are not reproductive till they attain maturity
 Darwin's primordial germ would therefore, demand a miracle for it's preservation and a series of miracles for it's reproduction. If the egg was created before the eagle it would re- quire 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 reproduction would be a 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 aglnes that in the distant past a germ somehow came into existence, and