New Britain herald., 1917-10-15
DRIVING EV0LUTIOE]
 OUT OF THE COURT
Minister Pleads for Plaintiff in
 Case Of Bible Vs. Science

 ming away from the Temple of Evolu- ton, Rev. N. H. Hartman, pastor of the Peoples church on Court street, delivered his third address last even- ing in his series of attacks against the scientific theory that some force other than divine force was re- sponsible for animate and inanimate life on Earth and throughout the universe. MT. Hartman went merrily about his task of confounding the evolutionists by their own words and destroyed their case in court long be- fore offering his own witnesses. He showed how the case of the evolu- tionists is disproved by their own testimony and that the case of the Bible is entitled to the verdict of all thinking men and women.
 The following is an abstract of MT. Harriman's address:
 Tt should be a matter of some in terest, to know how the evolution trick has been turned: how a theory without scientific foundation, and posing as. science, could have swept off their feet so many learned men, and thrown discredit upon the Bible, and contaminated sacred learning. and well-nigh dominated the thought of tho world for three generations-- that surely is some subject. And that have set myself to answer tonight.
 And as hitherto, will take text from this much assailed old book, and you will see that 1t is pertinent: o Timothy, keep that which is com- mitted to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so-oalled: which some protesting have erred concern ing the faith q Timothy 6:2o. 21) We have seen that evolution is
 science falsely so-called.' We have marked the 'profane and vain bab- blings.' For the rest, consider this text, from Rev. 1929. And the great dragon was cast out. that old ser pent, called the Devil, and Satan. which deceiveth the whole world.' That pretty well describes his work in evolution. And thank God he is to be cast out one of these days.
 Further Adverse Evidence.
 -Four facts about the origin of things evolution must account for, or get out of court: CD The origin of The orderly and uniform work ing of force in the universt; (4) The origin of life. Matter and force are eternal, says the atheistic evolu- tionist. And that is the only logical way of accounting for them: far more logical than that of the theistic evolu- tionist, the believer in a God, who after creating matter and force with draws and lets the universe evolve and run itself. But saying that mat ter and force are eternal is not proof; and the assumption Is ridiculous. For you have left to explain why force works so uniformly. producing results that only mind could produce, and an Infinite Mind at that. Also you have left to explain, that mysterious and awful fact which We call life. Fail ing to account for all these facts, evolution ought to have no standing in court
 "Of the origin of matter. Darwin said: I am in 8 hopeless muddle.' Prof. Edward Clodd wrote: Of the beginning of what was before the present state of things, we know noth- ing and speculation is futile.' That well expresses the condition for those who reject the Bible. But he adds the following very scientific state ment: But since everything points to the finite duration of the present creation'-how does he dare use the word creation being an Evolution ist st?-'we must make a start some where Compare with that the 'un- scientific story of Genesis. account ing for all these facts.
 ''As to 'force,' Dr. Patterson of Chicago says this: Lord Kelvin, the greatest living scientist, said at meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science of which he was president. One word oharacteriZes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of saaenoe that I have made persevering- ly for forty-five years. That word is failure l know no more of cleo tcioal and magnetic force. or of the relation between electricity ether, and Senderable matter, or of chemical af- 4nity, than I knew and tried to teach to my students of natural philosophy fifty years ago, in my first session as professor
 And Lord Kelvin is quoted as to q conversation between himself and the famous Prof. Liebig: Walking to- gother in the country forty years ago, says Lord Kelvin, I asked him if he believed that the grass and flowers which we saw around us were pro- duced by mere chemical forces. He answered NO. no IIAOIc CAdA1 Couiu believe that book on botany, de- scribing them, could grow by mere chemical forces Do you get the sharp satire of that. for those who try to account for life by chemistry? Plants grow by chemistry if books can be composed by chemistry! The one is as absurd as the other.
 'Tyndall, in an address before the Royal Institute, London, after exper- imenting for eight months in an at tempt to account for life by natural means frankly admits failure and says: From the beginning to the end of the enquiry, there is not, as you have seen. a shadow of evidence in favor of the doctrine of "spontaneous generation. In the lowest. as in