Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-06-21
DR.. Broughton on Evolution.

Itself and Did a Monkey MAKE Man
was the subject of Rev. Len G.
Bloughton, in Grove Avenue Baptist
church last night. DR.. Broughtor
spoke, in part, as follows:
ssWe are now having much discus.
sion over evolution in its relation to
the Bible account of the creation
Many devout and earnest Christian
leaders are making war on every col
lege professor in our Christian col
leges and every minister of the Cos
pei who subscribes TO any form OF
evolution whatsoever; some are go
ing SO far as to say one cannot be a
Christian and believe in evolution.
"This extreme position, which IS
most unfortunate, grows out OF a
one-sided view of what the word eVo-
luton means. AS matter of fact,
there are two schools of teaching
with regard to evolution.
Defes Science.
'The atheistic evolutionist detles
what he calls science and holds that
man came from some lower order OF
animal-very likely the monkey.
With this premise, he ignores the
Genesis account of the creation. Eve
rything to him has come through evo-
luton, which has been its own mas
ter.
"The Garden of Eden story to
such teachers is also a myth. They
hold that if man fell at all in Eden
it was when in due process of evolu-
tion he lost his monkey tail and found
that he should no longer cling to a
limb on tree, but should walk up
right on land as lord of earth.
.sNow, it is this form of evolution
which a so-called history of mankind
now being published in a number OF
newspapers throughout the country is
advocating. 1t is subtle attempt to
account for every created thing with
out God. It is not new. Darwin and
others worked it to finish. Bob In
gersol made little fortune out of it.
And now one is amazed to see the
press of the present day reviving the
old blasphemy and pushing it into
our homes as something new to make
sceptics and infdels Of our children.
"stage is Set"
"Let us have the Introductory
word from the writer of this social
ed his tory of mankind" and get his
viewpoint. He says in his first chap
ter:
"In this chapter I shall tell you
how according TO our best belief)
the stage was set for the first appear
ance of man. In the beginning, the
planet upon which we live was (as
far as we know large ball OF.
flaming matter, tiny cloud of smoke
in the endless ocean Of space. Grad
ually in the course of millions OF
years, the surface burned itself out,
and was covered with thin layer Of
rocks. Upon these lifeless rocks the
rain descended in endless torrents,
wearing out the hard granite and ear
rying the dust to the valleys that lay
hidden between the high cliffs of the
steaming earth.
"'Then one day the great woEder
happened. What had been dead gave
birth to life. The first living cell
floated upon the waters of the sea.
For millions of years it drifted aim
lessly, but during all that time it was
developing certain habits that it
might survive more easily upon the
inhospitable earth.
"From this the writer goes on to
show how the fish filled the waters
and then certain ones of their group
made themselves into birds and 9TH
ers into reptiles and others into ami
mails, and then wonder of wonders
the monkey made man. If ever NOR
tai man faced anything more silly
than this, do not know it. There are
three absurdities in his statement:
"Was Ball of Fire.
'sThat Sin the beginning this planet
was ball of fire, etc. Where did the
planet come from? To begin at the
beginning, is to begin with nothing.
"That one day that which was dead
gave birth to life. How could an in
animate thing become animate? How
could death of itself create life?
"That this living cell, after float