Evening star., 1925-07-28

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the beginning. 1t was here before
life appeared and has never changed;
neither can it be shown that anything
else has materially changed.
Says Science Claim Weak.
There is no more reason to believe
that man descended from some in
ferior animal than there is to believe
that a stately mansion has descended
from a small cottage. Resemblances
are not proof-they simply put us on
inquiry. AS one fact, such as the alb
sence of the accused from the scene of
the murder, outweighs all the resem-
blances that a thousand witnesses
could swear to, so the inability of sci
ence to trace any one of the millions
of species to another species out
weighs all the resemblances upon
which evolutionists rely to establish
mans blood relationship with the
brutes.
But, while the wisest scientists
cannot prove a pushing power, such
as evolution is supposed to be, there
IS lifting power that any child can
understand. The plant lifts the min
eral up into a higher world, and the
animal lifts the plant up into a world
still higher. So, 1t has been reasoned
by analogy, man rises, not by power
within him, but only when drawn up
ward by a higher power. There is a
spiritual gravitation that draws all
souls toward heaven, just as surely as
there is a physical force that draws
all matter on the surface of the earth
toward the earths center. Christ is
our drawing power. He said, I, if l
be lifted up from the earth, will draw
all men unto me- and His promise Is
being fulfilled daily all over the world
1T must be remembered that the
law under consideration in this case
does not prohibit the teaching of evo-
luton up to the line that separates
man from the lower form of animal
life. The law might well have gone
farther than it does and prohibit the
teaching of evolution in lower forms
of life; the law is a very conservative
statement of the peoples opposition to
an anti-biblical hypothesis. The de-
fendant was not content to teach
what the law permitted; he. for rea-
sons of his own, persisted in teaching
that which was forbidden for reasons
entirely satisfactory TO the lawmakers.
Says Evolution" Misused.
Most of the people who believe in
evolution do not know what evolution
means. One of the science books
taught in the Dayton high school has
a chapter on The Evolution of Ma
chinery." This is very common
misuse of the term. People speak of
the evolution of the telephone. the au-
tomobile and the musical instrument.
But these are merely illustrations of
mans power to deal intelligently with
ina Sc, y
from within in the development of
machinery.
Equally improper is the use of the
word evolution to describe the
growth of a plant from a seed, the
growth of a chicken from an egg, or
the development of any form of ami
NAL life from a single cell. All these
give us a circle, not a change from
one species to another.
"Evolution-the evolution involved
in this case, and the only evolution
that is a matter of controversy any
where's the evolution taught by the
defendant, set forth in the books now
prohibited by the hew State law, and
illustrated in the diagram printed on
page 1874 of Hunters civic biology.
The author estimates the number of
species in animal kingdom at 800.
These are divided into IS classes, and
each class is indicated on the diagram
by a circle. 1t begins with protozoa
and ends with the mammals.
Man Not Set Apart.
mo circle is reserved for man alone
He is. according to the diagram, shut
up in the little circle entitled mann
mails with 3,499 other species of mann
mails. Does it not seem little unfair
not to distinguish between man and
lower forms of life? What shall we
say of the intelligence, not to say re-
ligion, of those who are SO particular
to distinguish between fishes and rep
tiles and birds, but put man with an
immortal soul in the same circle with
the wolf, the hyena and the skunk?
What must be the impression made
upon children by such a degradation
of man?
"In the preface of this book the
author explains that it is for children,
and adds that the boy or girl of aver
age ability upon admission to the Sec
ondary school is not a thinking indi-
vidual?'"
Not Meat for Babes.
Whatever may be said in favor of
teaching evolution to adults, it surely
is not proper to teach it to children
who are not yet able to think.
1.-THE eVolutioniSt does not undertake
to tell us how protoZoa, moved by in
terror and resident forces, sent life up
through all the various species, and
cannot prove that there was actually
any such compelling power at all.
And yet the school children are asked
to accept their guesses and build a
philosophy of life upon them. If it
were not so serious a matter, one
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the various degrees of relationship
that, according to evolutionists, exist
between man and other forms of life.
1t might require some very nice cal
culation to determine at what degree
of relationship the killing of relative
ceases to be murder and the eating
of ones kin ceases to be cannibaliSm.
But it is not a laughing matter when
one considers that evolution not only
offers no suggestions as to a Creator
but tends to put the creative act so
far away as to cast doubt upon crea-
ton itself. And, while it is shaking
faith in God as beginning, it is also
creating doubt as to a heaven at the
end of life. EvolutionistS do not feel
that it is incumbent upon them to
show how life began or at what point
in their long drawn out scheme of
changing species may become endowed
with hope and promise of immortal
life. God may be a matter of indiffer-
ence to the evolutionists, and a life
beyond may have no charm for them,
but the mass of mankind will continue
to worship their Creator and continue
to find comfort in the promise of their
Savior that He has gone to prepare
a place for them. Christ has made
Of death a narrow, star-lit strip be-
tween the companionship of yesterday
and the reunion of tomorrow; evolu-
ton strikes out the stars and deepens
the gloom that enshrouds the tomb
Demands More Than Guess.
IF the results of evolution were
unimportant, one might require less