The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-15

bTHE American Museum of Natural
 History is poisoning the minds of
 @ school children by false and bestial theories of evolution.
 Evolution is degrading and morally harmful.
 Evolution teaches us that we have the blood of the beast instead oi the breath of the Almighty.
 Evolution alleges that man came from the slime and the mud, up through the jungle, and that there is no final destiny for him save in the night of oblivion, ur1- lighted by single star.
 The wave of animalism has corrupting influence upon morals, and this poison is made plausible by the clever manner in which it is presented.
 The missing link idea is a disgrace to men and libel on Almighty God. So fragmentary and unreliable is it's evidence that no judge or jury would convict even horse thief on it, and we ought not to convict man of brute ancestry or con- vict the Bible of lying.
 Dr. Osborn, head of the American Museum of Natural History, admits in his book, on "The Origin and Evolution of Life," that speculations about the origins of life lie in the field, as he calls it, of "pure speculation" And yet he and the others in the Museum have so arranged the exhibits as to make it appear that man did not come by direct creation of God, as the Bible asserts, but that he came up, in some mysterious way, out of the slime, and through succession of reptiles and beasts to his present form. But for all that gigantic assumption there is not one single proved fact.
 These skulls of so-called "ape men" in the center hall of the Museum, devoted to the story of man, are figments of the heated and overly enthusiastic imagina- tion of evolution's devotees. The Pitt down man, for example, was no man at all. All that they found in the gravel pit in Sussex, England, near Pltdown Common, were tive or three bits of skull bone, a piece of jawbone and a canine tooth. With these few little Scraps, that a juggler could conceal in the palm of one hand, the scientists reconstructed the Pitt down man and proclaimed 1t a new genus, which they called Eoanthropos or dawn man. But after the first reconstruction by Dawson and Dr. Woodward, of the British Museum, Professor Arthur Keith, of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, took up these fragments of higher than the ape-like creature that Drs. Dawson and Wood had produced. And the climax was capped when Profes- sor Hadlicka reached the conclusion that the Piltdown jaw and tooth did not be- long with the fragments of the skull at all, but really belonged to a fossil chin- panzee.
 With reference to the alleged evolution of the horse, as treated in the diagram of the American Museum of Natural His tory, purporting to show that it sprang from the Eohippus, creature about the size of fox and having four toes instead of a hoof, I will quote from George McCready Price, Professor of Geology, Union College, College View, Nebraska, who says in his book
 "The geologic formations here rep resented as superimposed upon one an- other, are not thus found in nature-this is purely artificial arrangement made up from widely scattered formations, with nothing whatever of actual fact to forbid the idea that all these so-called horses were really living contempoTaneOusly. Even the modern horse, Equus, is also found as true fossil, along with the others. This is a purely artificial table, designed only to deceive the ignorant"
 And this is the kind of evidence upon which the faith of our children in the Bible account of Creation is being de- stroyed. repeat that it is treason to God Almighty and libel against the human race to put into the immature minds of little children the degrading idea that we have come up from the beasts, on evidence so flimsy, so tricky and 50 untrustworthy. Common honesty and fair play and right treatment of the God-fearing elements in A-Ao NokG RIRa aVaH Jewish alike-demand that some showing be made therein that so-called "Hall of the Age of Man." of the Bible story of creation and the Bible philosophy of Life
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