The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-04-05

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.of evolution BY Charles Darwin
was as great an event as the DIS
,coyery Of America by Christopher
This textbook Of which / have.
been speaking says that when
Charles Darwin announced the
theory Of evolution there arose a
great ipcry against II but eventn.
any this died away. The boys and
girls get the impression that the
persons who saw the Darwin the
DRY would undermine the Bible
brought forth great hub.bub and
cry but that evolution soon be-
came an established fact and now
is an established fact Of science.
"a woman called me over the
telephone one day. She said her
son came home and said, Mother,
1t Is foolishness to believe the
Bible. She answered, Where did
you get that notion?' The boy said,
From the evolution lessons in our
high school sociology class
"a young girl remarked before a
gathering recently that she didn't
belieVe n the Bible. On being
questioned. she said her teaching
in the University in science had
taught her that the Bible and sci.
ence didn't agree. She said she bs-
lieyed science.
"a young man whose parents
and grandparents were devout
Christians went to the University
and sat under the tutorship Of DR..
Reese and others OF his depart
ment. The young man said the
other day that Z saw the time
when foolishly believed every
thing in the Bible.' These are but
a few Of the many instances.
Thinks Bible Is Wrong
"A prominent professor IN the
University was asked in a Bible
class recently by his students what
was his opinion Of a teacher who
would teach that the Bible was
wrong. The prominent professor
didn't hesitate a moment. He
answered: Y would think that she
was highly advanced intellectually
II hold that any professor who
has a tendency to destroy faith In
the Bible has no place in the Uni
versity. No man who will teach
such things has a right to q place
in the university supported by the
money OF the fathers and mothers
OF the state. l don't believe that
parents should send Their children
to the university and have agnos-
tics made out Of them.
"The professors say they believe
the Bible and are good Christians
and church members and that they
believe in God. A man may believe
In God and still not be a Chris.
tian. He may believe in God and
still not believe in Christ. But he
cannot be a Christian and not be-
lieve in Christ. And you cannot be-
lieve In Christ and not believe in
his miracles. No man who believes
in evolution in all it's phases can
believe the miracles part OF the
Bible.
"Eyolutionlsts say that man is
the product Of evolution. They
preach and teach the dogmatic
theory that evolution is an estab-
lished fact. Evolution Is not an
established fact. It Isl based upon
su~ppositions and assumptions pure
and simrla. When evolution runs
out OF facts to substantiate its tho
cries, It bridges 1t over with more
suppositions.
Descended From Apo
'Evolutionists say that man Is
the descendant OF q lower animal.
Let us take the prevailing teach.
Ing that man has decended from n
monkey, from an ape. The thing
that strikes me is that the Bible
says that God made man in his
own image. God fashioned man
from the dust Of the earth and
breathed into him a living soul.
III the first man was a monkey,
God then, by reasoning, must have