Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-29
OPPOSES THEORY
OF EVOLUTION
Subtle Attempt to Account for
Creation Without God,
Says DR.. Broughton.
DEIFICATION OF SCIENCE
Thcistic Evolutionist Takes
Position With Gene
sis Story.
DEIFICATION OF SCIENCE

"Evolutiom-Did tho Earth Make
Itself ana Did Monkey Make NAM"
was the subject OF Rev. Len q;
Br"uSh;"n. in Grove Avenue Raptist
church last night pr. Hrnurh,o,
spoke. I'm part. rs follows:
We ar" now having much discus
SION over evolution In its relation TO
IN" Bill" account Of tho creation.
Many d"vout and earnest Christian
leaders arc making war on every col
log" professor In our Christian roll
l"Ecs and every minister of the Cos
Hol wh" subscrihcs to any form OF
evolution whatsoever: some going so
Tar as 10 say ono cannot be a Chris
tian and believe in evolution
IhiS extreme position. which IS
most unfortunate. grows out OF a
one sided view OF what the word cvo-
luton means. As matter Of fact.
'h"rc are two schools of teaching
with regard to evolution.
Deifes Science.
The atheistic evolutionst deines
what no calls science. and holds that
me world was It's own maker and
that man came from some lower or
der or animal-vcry likely the mon
key. With this premise ne ignores
the Genesis account OF tho creation.
Everything to him has come through
evolution. which has been Its own
master
The Garden OF Eden story to
such teachers is also n myth. They
hold that IL man fell at all In Eden.
II was when In duo process Of evo-
luton he los, his monkey tail and
found that he should no longer cling
to limb on a tree. hut should walk
upright on land as lord Of earth
Now, Il Is this form Of evolution
which so-called history OF mankind
now being published in a number OF
our newspapers throughout the coun-
I try Is advocating. 1t Ia n subtle at
tempt to account for every created
thing without God. 1t Is not new.
Darwin and others worked it to a
finish Bob Ingersol made little
! fortune out Of It. and now one IN
amazed to sec the press Of the pres-
Ont day revivinE tho old blasphemy
and pushing it into our homes as
something now to make sceptics and
inhdcls OF our children.
"Stnge Ia Set.n
Let us have the Introductory word
| from the writer Of this so-caIled his
tory OF mankind and get his View
point. He saws IN his first charter:
In this chapter shall ten you
how according TO our best bellef)
! the stage was set for the first ap-
| pearancc OF man. In the beginning
the planet upon which We live was
! CAS- far as we now know large
ball OF flaming matter. tiny cloud
of smoke in the endless ocean OF
| space. Gradually, in the course OF
! millions OF years. the surface burned
| Itself out. and was covered with a
| thin layer of rocks. Upon these life
! less rocks the rain descended In end
less torrents. wearing out the hard
| granite and carrying the dust TO the
valleys that lay hidden between the
high cliffs OF the steaming earth.
| Then one day the great wonder
| happened. what had been dead gave
! birth to life. The first living cell
| Heated upon the waters OF the sea-
| For millions OF years II drifted aim
lessly, hut during all that time IL was
developing certain habits that 1t
might survive more easily upon tho
| inhospitahlc earth
From this. the writer goes on to
| show how tho fish filed the waters
and then certain ones Of their group
made themselves into birds and
others into reptiles and others into
animals. and then wonder of won
dcrS-the monkey made man. II ever
mortal man faced anything more sill
~ than this. | do not know IT, There
are three absurdities in his state
mcnt:
"Wns Hall Of Fire"
That In the beginning this planet
was ball OF fire. etc Where did
tho planet come from? To begin at
the beginning, is to begin with MOTH
Ing.
That one day that which was dead
gave birth to life. How could an
inanimate thing become animate?
How could death OF itself create life?
That this living cell. after float
ing for millions of years on the sea,
finally worked itself into all sorts OF
living creatures and finally Into a
monkey. who finally worked him
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