The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-09-22
TEEE ELDER DARWIN
the Treasure with the Finding of the Elder Darwin

Ne proved that man descended from
the ape or any other animal ana
Lord Kelvin goes 81 far rs To say:
.srhert /, not single ascerlained Tact
II science which conflicts with any
statement of the Bible" one of the
greatest associations of scientists,
meeting some years ago in England,
.aye out 10 the world that the Gen
csis account of creation when properly
translated correspond perfectly with
that they read in the rocks; and one
of the most interesting articles ! ever
read is a parallel account by the two
sources. Genesis in one column, ana
science in the other. | write this IN
PRODUCTION to what have to say of DE-
Erasmus and his Grandson, because
in the present condition of eontro-
yersy, am sure To be nliSsundefsloou
and missquoted otherwise.
In all fairness we should also say
that many Bible Scholars and earnest
Christians believe in "A spiritual eroiu-
ton as Gods method of creation, and
seem no more dangerous to many who
do not agree with them, than do those
of the Fiat Creation theory. All
wish to make clear, as | write OF these
interesting characters, is that Darwin
ian evolution is Il theory only, and is
positively rejected by many, and be-
lieved by most others ohry i'll greatly
modified form, and even so medlfiea
is only accepted by Christian think
ers as probable mthod of Gods crea-
ton of the world. In all the process
they see God, "Brooding on the wat
ers," and mentally shaping the develop
ing creations, under Ills unchangable
natural law. In fairness To Charles,
it should also be said that he never
became an atheist, but was an ag-
nostic, freely admitting mat there was
an initial something of the first in
breathing of life, for which his theory
could not account. Huxley also men,
tions that initial urge. Moses called
it God, which has always seemed best
to me, us | have ever reasoned THAI
true Science and true Revelation must
agree, both coming from God, whether
read by man in the rocks or from the
inspired prophets.
Did life start from one cell?
1t probably did, as il still does; but
who made or put life into the one cell?
Should spontaneous generation be
demonstrated some day as an electric
or Il chemical matter, we would only
have found the condition under which
life general of God infuses itself into
the life special of animal or plant.
We cannot get away from the plain
plan and purpose that involves mind
before it can possibly evolve life.
With these preliminary thoughts per-
haps we are better prepared to con
slider this interesting character, and
the probable influence he exerted upon
Charles. The average man still sees
a purposeful God in the flippers of
the seal, rather than a growth of his
own because he needed them. Like
ness of form to him indicates like
ness of purpose, rather than develop
ment of one from the other, or from
a common ancestor. A plant taken
from the Alps to sunny Italy, so
changed it was not looked upon as the
same plant; but returned to the Alps,
reverted to its old form. Such varia-
alton is found to less degree among
animals and men, in adaptation to new
environment, but full reverson to the
ancestral form of which some scien-
lists reason, is never found. Yet we
are told the foetal changes follow
roughly the development from one cell
to the mollusk of many cells, the
change to a nervous system and then
the bony frame, with gradual develop
mpnt of pillS and thpn cur lt,no form,