The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-07-06
Evolution.
(By Rev. w. |. Sinnott)

God has given man two sources of
knowledge: Nature, or the world,
which the Greeks called Kosmos, and
the Bible. knowledge of the Kosmos
when classified is Science, using the
word with a restricted meaning;
knowledge of God and His relation
to the Kosmos is Theology, most of
which knowledge comes from the
Bible and much of it is higher than
nature, and is therefore supernatural.
Theology is the queen Of the sciences,
using the word science in its broad
est meaning. Philosophy embraces in
its domain all knowledge both of the
Kosmos and of the Bible. Three doc
trines are advocated about God:
Atheism, Deism and Theism. Athe-
ism exists in three forms: Atheism
an extreme form which denies that
God exists, Agnosticisn which says
that one can know nothing about God,
and Pantheism which says everything
is God, or an emanation from God,
but God is only it, and has no at
tributes of personality. Deism in its
highest form affrms that God is a
Being infinite and eternal in wisdom
(intellect) and power (power), but
emotion and affection do not exist In
Him. In a supernatural way He Gre
ated a machine (the Kosmos), gave
it properties and powers, ordained
the method or law of its operation,
started it in motion, and left 1t to
operate according to law. Under
Deism it is proper to praise God, but
useless to petition or ask Him for
anything in prayer. Deism denies
free agency, it teaches fatalism.
Theism agrees with Deism that God
is irfnite and eternal in intellect and
will, but affirms that He has emo
tions and affections, that he is every
where present and everywhere active,
and that He has intevened by mira
Gle in the past, and in various super
natural ways today He shows His
love for man. He answers petitions
in prayer whenever in His wisdom
He sees this to be best. Evolution
is hypothesis in philosophy by which
as a method the present order OF
things, especially of life, is explain
ed. It is found in two forms: Athe-
istic and Deistic Evolution. Atheistlc
Evolution denies a creator and as
sumes the eternity of matter Though
some atheists affirm the eternity of
mind, or of matter ard mind) both,
but usually it's doctrine is material
ism. Matter contains in itself latent
life which in due time is emanated
in the lowest variety from which by
evolution every living thing, vegeta-
BILE and animal, is descended. Deistlc
Evolution agrees with Atheistic Evo-
luton except that it demands a Gre
ator and law-giver. There are many
variations Of these two hypothesis,
but. the two given are the only ones
that can claim fair degree of con-
sistency. The so-called Theistic Evo-
luton is impossible, because If God
never intervenes supernaturally it is
not theistic, if He ever intervenes,
after the creation Of the first varie-
ties of life, it is not Evolution.
The argument for Evolution in a
few words is as follows: The in
ternal power in life to produce varia-
tions when combined with external
power, environment (clinate food etc),
natural selection and the surviv-
al of the fttest produce all the
genera (or specieo), and here
dity fixes the genera.
1t is claimed that the evidence OF
higher forms of life as you ascend
in time in the geological record proves
Evolution. A concrete case Of evo-
lutionary argument is given in Ap-
plcton's CyclopaeGia Of 1901 in which
Prof. J. S. Kingsley, formerly OF
Tufts College, later Of the University
Of Illinois, tells US that at certain
stages of growth man differs nothing
from the frog, the dog, the ape, there
fore man is the son Of the ape, the
grandson Of the dog and the great
grandson of the frog (or tadpole). Ev-
en- if Prof. Kingsley is right in regard
to the chemical elements and anatomi-
cal structure Of mans body IA scien-
tifc question which only the chemist
and psychologist can decide) there IS
. vital difference between man and
\she brute, and that difference is In
fe itself. Life in its essence is a
ecret which God has not revealed
B man, and therefore all the biologists