The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1921-11-17
THE REV. PENNIMAN SPEAKS
ON EVOLUTION

The following is resume Of
lecture delivered by Rev. II. NJ. Pen
niman, at Portland, Ind.
lie said: Evolution in It's broad
est meaning Is the study Of how
things have been made and mr.,
made. The crucial point in evolution
is that species have been derived
from species. This point has beer
made plain to the popular mind By
saying Man has come from the mon.
key This point has never beer
proved. Even Darwin never claimed
Il was proved. No university has
claimed il is proved. It is only a
guess.
Great gaps appear in evidence
necessary TO change this guess into
a truth. The most that intelligent
advocates of evolution claim is that
the gaps have been narrowed in tho
last % years. but evolution is still n
guess. Immense amount Of writing
las been pushed upon the public IN
favor of evolution and many are con-
fused.
Whoever desires 10 read some
thing that will clear the mind on this
topic can get the Bible Champion
for 1921, published In Reading, Pa,
by Frank J. Boyer. In this periodical
will be found articles on evolution BY
Professor Townsend that will give
the up-to-date position on evolution.
Evolution is still a guess.
-Four types Of people are studying
this guess, ard say they believe il
and believe in it: First, the atheistic
cvolutionist. This man does not be-
lieve there is God. OF course such
man does not believe in the Bible
or in Christianity. In many cases
the atheistic evolutionist bitterly
hates the Bible and Christianity. talks
against the Bible teaching, drawing
comparisons, and wherever n teacher
in our public schools is found Of this
type, that teacher cannot help influ.
encing the scholars against the BIZ
BILE and the churches. He is some
times very sly about IL but the chill
dren know. 10 nicely that their
teacher, whom they often love, does
not believe in the Bible and in the
churches, because he believes in this
evolution guess. And they 60 home
and tell their parents that the Bible
is all bosh.
''Some public school teachers are
in a hard place because the school
board committees demand that evo-
luton be taught, tho the teacher does
not believe it. And it becomes very
TO teach what they do
not believe.
"The second type is the agnostic
evolutionist. That man says, I do
not know whether there is a God OF
not This man often says, Z wish I
did, OF course this man cannot be-
ieve in the Bible or in Christianity.
The agnostic public school teacher
who believes in the evolution guess
IS soon found out by the scholars. In
teaching he leads the children to dis
believe the Bible Some Of the ag.
1ostics are very bitter against the
Bible and some are Indifferent and
'ay they do not care one way OF the
,ther. Where they prevail authority
'or order becomes slack.
"The third type is the theistic evo-
utionist who says, I believe in the
existence of God, but I do not believe
n the Bible except when I find what
iuits me- He does not believe in
Tesus Christ, the Saviour of man.
lie says with other believers in evo-
ution, 'Altho it is not proved, I be-
ieve it will be proved some day.
"The fourth type are those who
all themselves Christian evolution ,
SITS. They say. Yes, we believe in I