Washington telegraph., 1927-04-15
EVOLUTION AND UNBELIEF
(Ry J. C. Williams)

- anu "Hel tlllS test Is applied
TO the doctrine of evolution we do not
see anthing very encouraging For
the future. The whole theory is has.
ed on natural processes and all life
comes from n cell and they claim
that thcrc is somekind of Inherent
power that enables shc cell 20 crow
and enlarge until We find ,hc present
universe. But does a personal God sit
behind and Guide all things? Some
say yes. and others say no, or at least
they donot find a God and only a
force or intelligence. Now what &C.
feet SO far has the theory had upon
the religious views of the most promi-
nent men who hold to it?
Charles Darwin the founder and
most distinguished cxpounder Of the
idea landed in blank unbolief an ag-
nosticism and said that he did not
ind ar- God m his discoveries. lie
died without faith end ir n dreadful
example Of whore evolution loade.
What would we have thought #
Gcorge Washington had in his last
DAYS decided that there was no such
thing as liberty and that democracy
was n failure? IF the head man Of
evolution went into agnosticism what
of the rank and file who follow him.
"If in these things be done in a green
tree what will be in a dry one?"
Then there was Haeckle the most
eminent of the German scientists and
usiters and he after thorough exam.
nation Of the subject professed him
self to be an outright atheist and he
lad a baleful effect upon Germany
and the entire nation went over in
10 evolution and large numbers of
them became atheists and aenostics
and we know what effect this had on
the people and it was manifested in
the bloody Worlds War that has been
such blight upon this modern era.
In England the most noted scientist
of his day was Professor Huxly and
he became an ardent evolutionist and
announced to the world that he was
IN agnostic and discarded the Christ
ian religion. An agonistis is one who
says he does not know whether there
is God or not and that he has not
found any evidence of there being
one, while an atheist says that there
is no God
Then in this country there is
Clarence Darrow, noted attorney
who differs from his fellow lawyer
and proffesses that he is an evolution
ist and an agnostic. Some profess
ed Christians profess faith in evolu-
ton and say that it can be harmoni-
zed with the Bible but | have yet to
find one who believes in an entire
Bible, but they handout a mutilateC
one and inspired only in spots and
they claim to say what is inspired
and what is myth and we have 6
Bible of fables. This is sadly illus.
illustrated in case of the celebrated
Bishop Montgomery Brown who has
been deposed from his bishopric by
the Epispocal church. He accepted
evolution and then by degree gave W
the great fundamental doctrines o'
the church and finally said chat Coo
was only n symbol and Jesus Chris
only a beautiful thought but rcalli
never existed. A great many o
our scholars and scientists are becom
ing atheistics or agnostics and out o
questionable sent out to 100 lead
ing scientists as to whether they be
lieved in a personal God and if the.
believed in the efficacy of prayer 6I
responded that they did not believe Il
a personal God and consequently the,
did not pray as there is no use to pra'
to an impersonal being or to mer