Pocahontas star herald., 1926-09-16
D. L. Dalton on Evolution

Having been deeply impressed by the
article concerning the teaching of evo-
luton in our schools in last weeks
issue. we desire to express few
thoughts along this line if the good
editor will grant us a small space IN
his grand old paper.
The various men who signed the
statement last week telling to the
world that they were strongly opposed
to this theory, are to be commended.
People stop for an instant and think
what this theory will lead to- Think
of mighty land, home of millions of
human inhabitants openly denying the
word of Diety !, disbelieving the Divine
Word our Maker left before us
To he an evolutionist is to openly
deny the scriptures as we find them in
the book of Genesis. There is no way
around this.
But first let us reason a bit without
mention of the above facts relating to
the Bible. The evOlutionist tells that
by n gradual process of changing we
have risen step by step from the hairy,
agile, grinning, comical looking beast
which we see swinging from branch
to branch in the dense tropical for
ests of some of our torrid lands. Is
this reasonable? Some may say yes.
We say no. Why? Because as the
theorist tells you evolution brought
us the Jersey COW from the wild, hairy.
poor milk producing stock of the east
ern hemisphere ages ago. Also they
tell you the sleek, plump Poland China
hog evolved from the wild hogs across
the water But listen, did he say the
Jersey sprang from an ancient herd
of giraffe or the Poland China Fog
from a chlpmunk or prairie dog? No,
they came. by improvement, from a
source of their individual family, the
same kind.
We see all growing things i'm their
various states of development. SO II
the evolutionist is right why can't we
see a species of animals only one half
evolved, half man, half ape? We have
the finished product of each kind,
fully developed man and a well formed
monkey. We ask them to show us the
middle course Why doesn't evolution
go on just the same now as in ancient
times.
Evolution does go on But ii does
not change door knobs into diamonds
or cabbage heads into flying machines.
Aside from the original and creative
side of the question there is human
and moral view of the situation.
Imagine the highly educated pro-
fessor early In the morning as he
leves his home, built from Gods own
materials and His own soil. Beanti
fled by Gods own creation Of beauti-
full flowers which flourished under the
Strengthening rays of the sun from
above and nurtured by Gods own
showers; eats and drinks that which
came from higher power than man;
walks away across the glossy green
grass in the beautiful sunshine to teach
the degrading theory that the dear
faithful wife and the bright faced
Riddles which he left behind to cheer
him when he returns, were the direct
descendants of the dwarfy, ugly gOril-
la and apes of the tropics. Also to
instill in the young formative minds
of his pupils that when our Heavenly
Father said 81 will make man in my
own image" that he meant that his
image was the same as the long tailed
species Of monkey that amuses the
children nj the circus.
God forbid that such doctrine be
permitted to circulate to poison the
minds of our innocent boys and girls.
Imagine a land without law. A
land without the Bible, is a land with
out law. What good will the divine
word do us if we reject itg
This is a serious question. We must
do something The teaching of evolu-
tion as pertaining to man should I've
abolished Gov. Austin Peay and the
legislature of Tennessee deserve one
of the finest monuments ever erected
for their efforts in taking the lead in
having this fatal theory stamped out
In our sister state, Tennessee.
Everything is based on the Bible,