The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-15

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ISLANDERS When asked for statement
on the question, he said: If my bool
can not stand all its critics. let it fall.
Andrew White says in his Warefars
Of Science and Religion, that the pub
lication of Darwin's "Origin of Spe
cies. was like plowing into an ant
hill. The theologians. rudely awaken
ed from comfort and repose, swarmed
out angry, wrathful and confused. The
air was charged with challenges, ser
mons. pamphlets. brochures. and re.
views, an directed at the head OF poor
Darwin.
Even Gladstone, England's premier
did not consider Darwin beneath his
oratorieal assault, and trained his bat.
teries on the poor scientist Wilber-
force, Bishop Of oxford. in a speech
before one OF the learned British so
cietles. at which Darwin was not pres
ent repeated a number of malicious
and slanderous statements regarding
Darwin and his works in the presence
of Thos Huxley a lifelong friend of
Darwin, and winding up his speech and
directing his remarks to Huxley. ask
ed: If he were really descended
from monkey and if so was it on
his fathers or his mothers side?e
Huxley slowly rose in his place in
the audience and forcibly said: Il as
sert and repeat. that a man has no
reason to be ashamed Of having an
ape for his grandfather. If there were
an ancestor whom / should feel shame
in recalling, it would be a man, man
of restless and versatile intellect, who,
not content with success in his own
sphere OF activity, plunges into scien-
tifc questions with which he has no
real acquaintance. only to obscure
them by an aimless rhetoric. and dis
tract the attention of his hearers from
tue real point at issue by eloquent d.
gression and a skillful appeal to re-
ligious preiudices." Archbishop VIII
berforce had no more to say regard
ing Darwin's theories when Huxley
was present.
Herbert Spencer in a somewhat sim
liar manner called Gladstone to task
by telling him that Newton and his
law of gravitation (Which Gladstone
accepted) and the physical science of
astronomy was open to the same
charges that he was making against
The Origin of Species Gladstone
retreated under a maze of words which
had nothing to do with the subject.
Now as to the theory that Darwin
has immutably fixed on the world
What is it? Stripped of all its scien,
titic verbiage it means only this, and
the explanation is SO simple that it
seems to me that even Farmer" could
understand it. The Darwinian theory
is that If the strongest and best class
of the species are selected and mated
better specimens will result and that
a long course of procedure of this sort
will finally evolve a much better race.
OF course, running this back through
ages and ages. this same selection, and
the survival of the fittest and strong
est parents, gradually high type of
race has been evolved. Every farmer
knows the advantage of selection and
breeding of the best individual of his
fiocks. He strives all the time to in
crease the value of his herds in this
Darwin found that the lowest uni
cellular organism was simply mass
of undifferentiated protoplasm, and he
found too that this same cell was
identical with the cell of highest forms |
Of animal life and how easy then came |
the postulate Origin of Species"
If in the brief lifetime of one man.
a great change in herd of cattle can
be made by selecting each season the
hest specimens for breeding purposes.
what wonderful result might be nc.
in ages of the same sort of
a process, governed in the latter in
stance by the supplemental theory Of
Natural Selection. and THE Survival
1f the Ffttest
II God made in 6 brief days of "a
hours each the earth and all it con-
aims with man and woman, just 1904
years before Christ May 10th, why
iidn't he make a perfect pair? Why
iid'nt he made a pair that could work
n the metals. harness electricity, con
inc and use steam, put great net work
If railroads across Palestine. aud why
we're they not perfect in every partic,
liar and not as far advanced both
mentally and physically as they are
oday, and going step further. as far
IS humanity can ever reach. Why +
lidn't he make composite Edison.
sesla, Watts and Jas ]. Hill?.
l repeat this query; If God made
nan and woman, why didn't he put
hem at the highest zenith intellectual