Evening star., 1923-12-24
Disputes Evolution.
Writer Says Many Scientists
Deny Darwinism.

To the Editor Of The Star:
/ would like to say, in answer to
Mr.. Smith. that I don't in the least
confound evolution and Darwinism,
as, Of course, the evolutionary theory,
the transmutation OF species, had
been thought Of long before Darwin's
day, and had, probably, been dis
cussed by the ancients. But Darwin
applied to man. forging the links in
the chain until he reached the
monkey. where he remained suspend
ed in midair, so to speak. search
ing for the next link. AS G. X.
Chesterton very wittily remarked.
You know it's called the missing
link because it never was there"
and If monkeys ever evolved into men
they have fortunately stopped this
reprehensible practice, as Mr.. Monk
Is still with us, hanging by his tail
to a limb, and shying cocoanuts at
his fellow to the end of time.
Prof. William Bateson, NJ. A, F. r.
S., D. &c., president of the British As
sociation. for the Advancement of
Science, threw a bombshell into the
convention of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science
in 1921 by declaring that it was
impossible for scientists any longer
to agree with Darwin's theory Of
the origin of species" He further
said that while forty years ago the
Darwin theory was accepted without
question, today scientists have come
to 8 point whore they are unable to
offer any explanation for the genesis
Of species l quote his exact words.
He proceeded to say that there was
no evidence Of any one species ac-
uuiring new faculties, but there were
plenty of examples of species losing
faculties, Species lose things. but do
not add"
workable, scientific theory has now
been held an established fact for
nearly a hundred years" l challenge
that statement. At the risk or
reputation / again call atteatlon 10
win. who pronounced the whole evo-
lutionary theory false and unscien-
tifc. Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry
John William Dawson, Arnold Guyot'
Or. Traas; Pasteur. LORD kelvin. s
Earadsy; Ia Fyaneis asrSfssI ssifour sG James orr
Leibnitz, Maury: Beale, CARPENTER,
Dana, Davy and host Of others
raised their voices in protest.
Agassiz says: "The theory is
scientific mistake, untrue in its facts'
unscientific in it's methods and mis-
chievous in it's tendency. There Is
not a fact known to science tend
ing to show that any being IN the
natural process of reproduction anu
MULTIPLICATION has ever diVe,sea
from the course natural to It's klnd
or that a single kind has ever peen
Transmitted into any other
These are very strong WORDS, anu
are echoed by Etheridge OF the Bit
ish Museum, who stated, In all this
great museum there Is not par
Hcle of evidence Of the transmuta-
ton ton Of species; by Virchow, late
all faith in evolution; by recent
eminent German scientists sIch as
Elmer, Gustaf Wolf, de Vries, Hoocke;
Won Wellstein, Fleishmann ana
Reinke: by modern French scientists
such as Meunier, Castor BONNER
prof Ellie de Cyon. the Marquis de
Nadaillac and others, and by few
American scholars who are courage
Gus enough to speak their minds. such
as DIR. William Hanna Thompson. Dr.
Leavitt, ex-president of Lehigh Uni.
versity.- and Prof. c. c. Everett OF
Harvard.
Yes, the light IL beginning to
break, even In our colleges, and. as
Prof. Everett says: 'Tf ranks OF be-
ines ever rose and moved in pro-