Title: The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
Author: Williams, William A. (William Asbury)
Language: English
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The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved

by Rev. William A. Williams, D.D.

In 50 Arguments

Designed (1) As an up-to-date text book, and a companion to all other text
books on evolution; and

(2) As an antidote to books in libraries teaching evolution, infidelity and
atheism; and

(3) As an aid to all students, parents, teachers, ministers, lawyers, doctors,
and all other lovers of the truth.



Contents

 INTRODUCTION
 MATHEMATICS THE ACID TEST
 THEORIES OF EVOLUTION

 PART ONE: Evolution of the Human Body Mathematically Disproved
 The Unity of the Human Race

 1. The Population of the World
 2. The Unity of Languages
 3. Religions
 4. Place of the Origin of Man
 5. Civilizations
 6. The Mendelian Inheritance Law
 7. Biometry
 8. No New Species Now
 9. Mathematical Probability
 10. The Age of the Earth
 11. Geology and History
 12. Geographical Distribution
 13. God Not Absent Nor Inactive
 14. Chance or Design?
 15. Evolution Atheistic
 16. Brute Descent Impossible
 17. Eight Impassable Gulfs
 18. Ancestral Apes and Monkeys
 19. A Staggering Speculation
 20. Sex
 21. Man Hairless and Tailless
 22. Hybrids
 23. The Instinct of Animals
 24.Special Creation: Gen. I
 25. Analogy; Mathematics, Laws
 26. Desperate Arguments
 27. Twenty Objections Admitted
 28. Scientists Condemn Evolution

 PART TWO: Evidence Answered
 29. Paleontology
 30. Confessed Collapse of Proof
 31. Pictures in Caverns
 32. Vestigial Organs
 33. Serology, or Blood Tests
 34. Embryology

 PART THREE: The Soul
 35. The Origin of the Soul
 36. Personality
 37. Intellect, Emotions and Will
 38. Abstract Reason
 39. Conscience
 40. Spirituality
 41. The Hope of Immortality
 42. Sin
 43. Redemption
 44. Evolution Aids Infidelity and Atheism
 45. Evolution Wars With Christianity
 46. Camouflage of Terms
 47. What Are We to Believe?
 48. What Can We Do?
 49. Problems for Review
 50. The Supremacy of Jesus



The Evolution of Man Mathematically Disproved



Introduction


Let it be understood, at the outset, that every proved theory of
science is to be accepted. Only the most intense prejudice and the
maddest folly would lead any one to reject the proved conclusions of
science. Moreover, we should examine any new hypothesis with open
minds, to see if it has in it anything truthful, helpful or
advantageous. It should neither be accepted nor rejected simply because
it is new. But if a theory is evidently or probably untrue, or
pernicious, or at all harmful, it is to be rejected and condemned.

Some facts and objections are herein submitted to the serious seeker
after truth, in the hope that a theory so out of harmony with the
facts, and so destructive to the faith and the cherished hopes of man,
may be completely discarded. As Evolution can not stand the acid test
of mathematics, it will be repudiated by all.

We shall discuss the theory upon its merits, from a scientific
standpoint, and will also demand an explanation of all facts concerned,
as we have a right to do, even where they are associated with the
theological and the spiritual as well as the material. We do not oppose
true science but “science falsely so called.” We do not ban research,
but will not allow the wild vagaries of the imagination to pass as
truth.

We shall not declare arbitrarily that evolution is untrue; neither will
we allow scientists to decide what we shall believe. But we shall
appeal to the facts, and evolution must stand or fall by the evidence.
“Evolution is not to be accepted until proved.” It is not yet proved
and never will be.



MATHEMATICS THE ACID TEST


Every theory to which mathematics can be applied will be proved or
disproved by this acid test. Figures will not lie, and mathematics will
not lie even at the demand of liars. Their testimony is as clear as the
mind of God. Gravitation is proved a true theory by numerous
calculations, some of them the most abstruse. The Copernican theory is
proved true, and the Ptolemaic theory false, by mathematical
calculations. The calculations, leading to the discovery of Neptune,
went far to establish the Copernican theory as well as the law of
gravitation, and to disprove the Ptolemaic theory. The evolution
theory, especially as applied to man, likewise is disproved by
mathematics. The proof is overwhelming and decisive. Thus God makes the
noble science of mathematics bear testimony in favor of the true
theories and against the false theories. We shall endeavor to marshal
some of the mathematical proofs against the false and pernicious theory
of evolution. True theories, such as the gravitation and Copernican
theories, harmonize with each other as every branch of mathematics
harmonizes with every other. If evolution were true, it would harmonize
with all other true theories, rather than with so many false theories.



THEORIES OF EVOLUTION


Evolution in one sense, means growth or development,—literally,
unrolling or unfolding. It is difficult to give a clear definition that
will apply to each of the various theories that are held. Theories
differ vastly in the extent of their application, as held by their
various advocates, resulting in great confusion of terms:—

1. The atheists believe that there is no God. Hence, matter was not
created, but was eternal, or came by chance. Only a mere handful of the
whole human race have ever yet believed such an untenable doctrine. The
existence of a Creator, is doubted or denied by extreme atheistic
evolutionists, who would dethrone God, “exalt the monkey, and degrade
man.”

2. The first of modern scientific men to adopt the theory that all
plants and animals, including man, are developed from certain original
simple germs, was Lamarck, a French naturalist, in 1809. He conceded
that God created matter,—nothing more. He believed in spontaneous
generation, which scientific investigation has utterly disproved.

3. Darwin goes a step further and concedes there may have been a
Creator of matter, and of one, or at most, a few germs, from which all
vegetation and all animals came by evolution,—all orders, classes,
families, genera, species, and varieties. He differs from Lamarck, by
allowing the creation of one germ, possibly a few more. He says in his
“Origin of Species,” “I believe that animals are descended from at most
only four or five progenitors; and plants from an equal or lesser
number.... Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the
belief that all animals and plants are descended from one prototype....
All the organic beings, which have ever lived on the earth, may be
descended from some _one_ primordial form.” Darwin, because of his
great scholarship, fairness, and candor, won for his theory more favor
than it inherently deserves. Darwin taught that, “The lower impulses of
vegetable life pass, by insensible gradations, into the instinct of
animals and the higher intelligence of man,” without purpose or design.
None of these three hypotheses can admit the creation of man.

4. Other evolutionists, believing in the evolution of both plants and
animals, nevertheless refuse to believe in the evolution of man—the
most baneful application of the whole theory. Even if there were
convincing proof of the evolution of plants and animals from one germ,
there is no real proof of the evolution of man. To prove this is the
chief purpose of this book.

5. A fifth theory of evolution is held by many. It is called
polyphyletic evolution, which means that God created numerous stocks,
or beginnings of both plant and animal life, which were subject to
change and growth, deterioration and development, according to his plan
and purpose. So much of evolution in this sense as can be proved, is in
harmony with the Bible account of the creation of plants, animals and
man. The false theory of evolution is called the monophyletic, which
teaches that all species of plants and animals including man, developed
from one cell or germ which came by creation or spontaneous generation.
Evolution is used throughout this book in this latter sense, unless
otherwise indicated by the context. God does not create by evolution,
for it can only develop what already exists.

This book is divided into three parts: In Part One, material evolution,
especially the evolution of the human body, is disproved. In Part Two,
the alleged proofs of evolution are examined and refuted. In Part
Three, the evolution of the soul is shown to be impossible.

There are in all fifty numbered arguments, including answers to the
arguments of evolutionists.



Part One
The Evolution of the Human Body Mathematically Disproved


Any scientific theory or hypothesis must be proved first possible, then
probable, then certain. To be a possible theory, it must be
reconcilable with many facts; to be a probable theory, it must be
reconcilable with many more; to be a certain and proven theory, it must
be reconcilable with _all_ the facts. Whenever it is irreconcilable
with _any_ fact, it should be rejected, as it can not be a true theory.
Every true theory passes through these three stages,—possibility,
probability, and certainty. A theory is not science, until it is
certainly true, and so becomes knowledge. The evolution of man from the
brute is in the throes of a desperate struggle to show that it may
possibly be a true theory or hypothesis. Yet some who are ready to
admit that they are “scientists,” claim evolution a proven theory.

If it can be shown possible for man to have descended or ascended from
the lower animals, it will require enormous additional evidence to show
that such descent is probable; and still much more to make it certain.

Every scientific theory, proposed as _possible_, is reconcilable with
some facts. Otherwise, it would not have been considered for a moment.
Many false hypotheses have been proposed, and accepted as possible and
even probable, because reconcilable with some facts. The Ptolemaic
theory of the universe, making the earth the centre, around which the
heavens revolved in great concentric spheres, was accepted for 1400
years from A. D. 140, because it explained many things. It corresponded
with appearances. It appealed to all. Its advocates had great
difficulty in reconciling it with the motions of the planets, which
were therefore called planets or “wanderers.” But in time the
Copernican theory prevailed, because it was reconcilable with all the
facts. The evidence is so abundant that all claim it the true theory.
It is science. It is knowledge.

Because the Copernican hypothesis, the true theory of the universe, was
opposed and rejected, it does not follow that the evolution of man is
true because it is likewise opposed and rejected. If this new theory,
hypothesis, or guess stands, it can only do so, because it harmonizes
with all the facts. The law of gravitation, and every other proven
theory harmonizes with all the facts and with all other true theories.

It will be shown in this book, that a large number of facts can not be
reconciled with evolution, especially the evolution of man, thus
proving that it can not be a true theory. We really have a right to
demand the proof of a theory, and to refuse consent until proved. While
we are under no obligation to _disprove_ an unproven theory, yet it is
the shortest way to settle the matter once for all, before it has led
multitudes more astray, and wrecked the faith and hopes of the young.

Prof. H. H. Newman, in his “Readings in Evolution,” p. 57, says,
“Reluctant as we may be to admit it, honesty compels the evolutionist
to admit that there is no absolute proof of organic evolution.” “If all
the facts are in accord with it, and none are found that are incapable
of being reconciled with it, a working hypothesis is said to have been
advanced to a proven theory.” Note this admission by a leading
evolutionist.

Even if it should ever be proved that all plant and animal life came by
evolution from one primordial germ, it would not follow that either the
body or the soul of man came by evolution. All the arguments against
evolution in general are valid against the evolution of man. In
addition, there are many other arguments, that prove the evolution of
man impossible, even if the evolution of plants and animals should ever
be proved possible.

In this volume, the claim is made that the evolution of man is
irreconcilable with a large number of facts. If investigation proves
that we have erred in any statement of facts, or if our reasoning in
any one argument or more is fallacious, we will not lose our case, as
long as evolution remains irreconcilable with any other single fact. If
every argument in this book were invalid, save one, that one valid
argument would overthrow evolution, since every true theory must be
reconcilable with all the facts. One irreconcilable fact is sufficient
to overthrow evolution. And there are many!



THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN RACE


The evolution of man is not only a guess, but a very wild one; and it
is totally unsupported by any convincing arguments. It can be
mathematically demonstrated to be an impossible theory. Every proof of
the unity of the human race in the days of Adam or Noah shatters the
theory of the evolution of man. If the evolution of the human race be
true, there must have been, hundreds of thousands of years ago, a great
multitude of heads of the race, in many parts of the earth, without one
common language or religion. The present population of the globe proves
that mankind must have descended from one pair who lived not earlier
than the time of Noah. The unity of languages also proves one common
head about the same time. Certain beliefs and customs, common to
various religions, point to one original God-given religion in historic
time, in contrast to the evolution idea of many religions invented by
ape-men in millions of years. The history of the world and the
migration of nations point to one locality where the human race began
in times not more remote, and show that man was created in a civilized
state, and, therefore, never was a brute. If evolution were true, there
would have been many billion times as many human beings as now exist, a
great multitude of invented languages with little or no similarity, a
vast number of invented religions with little, if anything, in common.
Even the sciences invented and exploited by evolutionists, the
Mendelian Inheritance Law and Biometry, also prove evolution
impossible.

The unity of mankind is also conclusively shown by the fact that all
races interbreed, the most certain test of every species.

All these facts pointing to the unity of the race in the days of Noah
and of Adam are irreconcilable with the theory of evolution which
denies that unity within the last two million years.

We shall present these arguments more in detail. The arguments
immediately following, especially the first eight, show the unity of
the human race in the days of Noah, and thus present insuperable
objections to evolution, and confirm the story of man’s creation and
his destruction by the flood. The following is the first of fifty
Arguments against the evolution of man.



1. THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD


The population of the world, based upon the Berlin census reports of
1922, was found to be 1,804,187,000. The human race must double itself
30.75 times to make this number. This result may be approximately
ascertained by the following computation:—

At the beginning of the first period of doubling there would just be
two human beings; the second, 4; the third, 8; the fourth, 16; the
tenth, 1024; the twentieth, 1,048,576, the thirtieth, 1,073,741,824;
and the thirty-first, 2,147,483,648. In other words, if we raise two to
the thirtieth power, we have 1,073,741,824; or to the thirty-first
power, 2,147,483,648. Therefore, it is evident even to the school boy,
that, to have the present population of the globe, the net population
must be doubled more than thirty times and less than thirty-one times.
By logarithms, we find it to be 30.75 times. After all allowances are
made for natural deaths, wars, catastrophes, and losses of all kinds,
if the human race would double its numbers 30.75 times, we would have
the present population of the globe.

Now, according to the chronology of Hales, based on the Septuagint
text, 5077 years have elapsed since the flood, and 5177 years since the
ancestors of mankind numbered only two, Noah and his wife. By dividing
5177 by 30.75, we find it requires an average of 168.3 years for the
human race to double its numbers, in order to make the present
population. This is a reasonable average length of time.

Moreover, it is singularly confirmed by the number of Jews, or
descendants of Jacob. According to Hales, 3850 years have passed since
the marriage of Jacob. By the same method of calculation as above, the
Jews, who, according to the Jewish yearbook for 1922, number
15,393,815, must have doubled their numbers 23.8758 times, or once
every 161.251 years. The whole human race, therefore, on an average has
doubled its numbers every 168.3 years; and the Jews, every 161.251
years. What a marvelous agreement! We would not expect the figures to
be exactly the same nor be greatly surprised if one period were twice
the other. But their correspondence singularly corroborates the age of
the human race and of the Jewish people, as gleaned from the word of
God by the most proficient chronologists. If the human race is
2,000,000 years old, the period of doubling would be 65,040 years, or
402 times that of the Jews, which, of course, is unthinkable.

While the period of doubling may vary slightly in different ages, yet
there are few things so stable and certain as general average, where
large numbers and many years are considered, as in the present case. No
life insurance company, acting on general average statistics, ever
failed on that account. The Jews and the whole human race have lived
together the same thirty-eight centuries with very little
intermarriage, and are affected by similar advantages and
disadvantages, making the comparison remarkably fair.

Also, the 25,000,000 descendants of Abraham must have doubled their
numbers every 162.275 years, during the 3,988 years since the birth of
his son Ishmael. These periods of doubling which tally so closely,
168.3 years for the whole race, 161.251 for the Jews, and 162.275 years
for the descendants of Abraham, cannot be a mere coincidence, but are a
demonstration against the great age of man required by evolution, and
in favor of the 5,177 years since Noah. None of the other various
chronologies would make any material difference in these calculations.
The correspondence of these figures, 168.3, 161.251 and 162.275 is so
remarkable that it must bring the conviction to every serious student
that the flood destroyed mankind and Noah became the head of the race.

Now the evolutionists claim that the human race is 2,000,000 years old.
There is no good reason for believing that, during all these years the
developing dominant species would not increase as rapidly as the Jews,
or the human race in historic times, especially since the restraints of
civilization and marriage did not exist. But let us generously suppose
that these remote ancestors, beginning with one pair, doubled their
numbers in 1612.51 years, one-tenth as rapidly as the Jews, or 1240
times in 2,000,000 years. If we raise 2 to the 1240th power, the result
is 18,932,139,737,991 with 360 figures following. The population of the
world, therefore, would have been 18,932,139,737,991 decillion,
decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion,
decillion, decillion, decillion; or 18,932,139,737,991 vigintillion,
vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion.

Or, let us suppose that man, the dominant species, originated from a
single pair, only 100,000 years ago, the shortest period suggested by
any evolutionist (and much too short for evolution) and that the
population doubled in 1612.51 years, one-tenth the Jewish rate of net
increase, a most generous estimate. The present population of the globe
should be 4,660,210,253,138,204,300 or 2,527,570,733 for every man,
woman and child! In these calculations, we have made greater allowances
than any self-respecting evolutionist could ask without blushing. And
yet withal, it is as clear as the light of day that the ancestors of
man could not possibly have lived 2,000,000 or 1,000,000 or 100,000
years ago, or even 10,000 years ago; for if the population had
increased at the Jewish rate for 10,000 years, it would be more than
two billion times as great as it is. No guess that ever was made, or
ever can be made, much in excess of 5177 years, can possibly stand as
the age of man. The evolutionist cannot sidestep this argument by a new
guess. Q. E. D.

All these computations have been made upon the supposition that the
human race sprang from one pair. If from many in the distant past, as
the evolutionists assert, these bewildering figures must be enormously
increased.

Yet we are gravely told that evolution is “science”. It is the wildest
guess ever made to support an impossible theory.

That their guesses can not possibly be correct, is proven also by
approaching the subject from another angle. If the human race is
2,000,000 years old, and must double its numbers 30.75 times to make
the present population, it is plain that each period for doubling would
be 65,040 years, since {2,000,000/30.75} = 65,040. At that rate, there
would be fewer than four Jews! If we suppose the race to have sprung
from one pair 100,000 years ago, it would take 3252 years to double the
population. At this rate, there would be five Jews!

Do we need any other demonstration that the evolution of man is an
absurdity and an impossibility? If the evolutionists endeavor to show
that man _may_ have descended from the brute, the population of the
world conclusively shows that MAN CERTAINLY DID NOT DESCEND FROM THE
BRUTE. If they ever succeed in showing that all species of animals
_may_ have been derived from one primordial germ, it is impossible that
man so came. He was created as the Bible declares, by the Almighty
Power of God.

The testimony of all the experts in the famous Scopes trial in
Tennessee (who escaped cross-examination) was to the effect that
evolution was in harmony with _some_ facts and therefore _possibly
true_. The above mathematical calculations prove that the evolution of
man was certainly not true. They fail to make their case even if we
grant their claims. These figures prove the Bible story, and scrap
every guess of the great age and the brute origin of man. It will be
observed that the above calculations point to the unity of the race in
the days of Noah, 5177 years ago, rather than in the days of Adam 7333
years ago, according to Hales’ chronology. If the race increased at the
Jewish rate, not over 16,384 perished by the Flood, fewer than by many
a modern catastrophe. This most merciful providence of God started the
race anew with a righteous head.

Now, if there had been no flood to destroy the human race, then the
descendants of Adam, in the 7333 years, would have been 16,384 times
the 1,804,187,000, or 29,559,799,808,000; or computed at the Jewish
rate of net increase for 7333 years since Adam, the population would
have been still greater, or 35,184,372,088,832. These calculations are
in perfect accord with the Scripture story of the special creation of
man, and the destruction of the race by a flood. Had it not been for
the flood, the earth could not have sustained the descendants of Adam.
Is not this a demonstration, decisive and final?



2. THE UNITY OF LANGUAGES


The unity of the languages of the world proves the recent common origin
of man. Prof. Max Muller, and other renowned linguists, declared that
all languages are derived from one. This is abundantly proven by the
similarity of roots and words, the grammatical construction and
accidents, the correspondence in the order of their alphabets, etc. The
words for father and mother similar in form, for example, are found in
many languages in all the five great groups, the Aryan, the Semitic,
the Hamitic the Turanian and Chinese groups, showing a common original
language and proving the early existence of the home and civilization.
The similarity of these and many other words in all of the great Aryan
or Indo-European family of languages, spoken in all continents is
common knowledge. Lord Avebury names 85 Hamitic languages in Africa in
which the names of father and mother are similar; 29 non-Aryan
languages in Asia and Europe, including Turkish, Thibetan, and many of
the Turanian and Chinese groups; 5 in New Zealand and other Islands; 8
in Australia; and 20 spoken by American Indians. The French, Italian,
Spanish and Portuguese are daughters of the Latin; Latin is a daughter
of the Aryan; and the Aryan, together with the other sister languages
is, no doubt, the daughter of the original language spoken by Noah and
his immediate descendants. There can not well be more than 4
generations of languages, and the time since Noah is sufficient for the
development of the 1000 languages and dialects. The American Indians
have developed about 200 in 3,000 or 4,000 years. The life of a
language roughly speaking, seems to range from 1000 to 3,000 years. The
time since Noah is sufficient for the development of all the languages
of the world. But if man has existed for 2,000,000 or 1,000,000 years,
with a brain capacity ranging from 96% to normal, there would have been
multiplied thousands of languages bearing little or no resemblance.
There is not a trace of all these languages. They were never spoken
because no one lived to speak them.

Many linguists insist that the original language of mankind consisted
of a few short words, possibly not over 200, since many now use only
about 300. The Hebrew has only about 500 root words of 3 letters; the
stagnant Chinese, 450; the Sanscrit, about the same. All the Semitic
languages have tri-literal roots. As the tendency of all languages is
to grow in the number and length of words, these consisting of a few
small words must have been close to the original mother tongue. No
language could have come down from the great antiquity required by
evolution and have so few words. Johnson’s Eng. Dictionary had 58,000
words; modern Dictionaries over 300,000. The evidence points to the
origin and unity of languages in the days of Noah, and proves the great
antiquity of man an impossibility and his evolution a pitiful
absurdity.



3. RELIGIONS


The unity of ancient religions proves the creation of man who received
a divine revelation. According to evolution, all religions were evolved
or invented by humanoids. In that case, we would expect them to be
widely divergent; and we would be surprised, if they agreed on great
and important points, and especially on points which could not be
clearly arrived at by reason. For instance, what in reason teaches us
that an animal sacrifice is a proper way to worship God? How could
unassisted reason ever arrive at the conclusion that God is properly
worshipped by sacrificing a sheep or an ox? If we grant that one
section of the anthropoid host might have stumbled on the idea, how can
we account for its prevalence or its universality? A very high
authority says, “Sacrifices were common to all nations of antiquity,
and therefore, traced by some to a personal revelation.” By revelation,
we learn that the animal sacrifice prefigured the Lamb slain on
Calvary. It was revealed. No race of monkey-men could ever have
invented the idea.

The most ancient nations worshipped God by sacrifices. Homer’s Iliad
(1000 B. C.) and other works of Grecian poets are full of it. All the
classics, Greek and Latin, are crowded with accounts of offerings. The
earliest records of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hindus and
Chinese speak of sacrifices long in vogue. This unity of religions on
the point of animal sacrifices bespeaks revelation and not evolution.

The division of time into weeks of 7 days, prevalent among the
ancients, suggests an ancient revelation in commemoration of creation
as against evolution, which denies creation. The following statements
from Dr. J. R. Dummelow, an eminent commentator, show that the
Babylonians both divided time into weeks, and offered sacrifices,
pointing to the unity of religions. “The Babylonians observed the 7th,
14th, 21st and 28th of each lunar month as days when men were subjected
to certain restrictions; the king was not to eat food prepared by fire,
_nor offer sacrifice,_ nor consult an oracle, nor invoke curses on his
enemies.” They also observed the 19th of each month. It was customary,
therefore, in the days of Abraham, for the Babylonians to offer
sacrifices and to observe the 7th day as especially sacred. This can
only be accounted for upon the assumption, that God had revealed to the
human race that creation occupied 6 days or periods, and the 7th was to
be observed,—all of which was doubtless handed down by tradition. There
were priests and temples in the most ancient empire known.

Dr. Dummelow says: “It is now widely admitted that the Genesis account
of creation contains elements of belief which existed perhaps thousands
of years before the book of Genesis was written, among the peoples of
Babylonia and Assyria.” Many of the primeval revelations were handed
down by tradition. God communed with Adam. There are many relics of the
original religion: the division of time into weeks, and the institution
of the Sabbath day; the sacrifices so common in the ancient religions;
the general existence of priests and temples in all ages, and among all
nations; marriage, the divinely authorized pillar of society; the early
institution of the family, and the use of the root words for father and
mother, in all the most ancient languages, and families of languages,
as well as in the scattered languages of the earth spoken by the most
savage. The belief in the immortality of the soul, is well nigh
universal, even among tribes, who, unlike Plato, possess no power to
reason it from the light of nature. In contrast, we behold the sorry
spectacle of the anthropoid evolutionists of our day trying to drive
from the hearts of men the hope of immortality by their “science
falsely so-called.” The burial of the dead is, no doubt, a relic, since
animals, even of the monkey tribe, do not bury their dead.



4. PLACE OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN


The unity of the human race is further proved by the fact that it
originated in one locality and not in many. The locality is the one
described by Moses. And the fact that Moses correctly located the
beginning of the race, when he himself had no personal knowledge,
proves that he was inspired and taught of God. He never could have
guessed the spot to which history and the migration of nations point,
and which the evolutionists themselves are obliged to concede.

The habitable countries of the world total 50,670,837 sq. mi. We are
making a generous estimate, when we suppose the garden of Eden to have
been 100 mi. wide and 125 mi. long,—12,500 sq. mi. There are 4005 such
areas in the habitable globe. It is located in Mesopotamia on the
Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Maps of ancient nations show that mankind radiated from this centre.
The great nations of antiquity were clustered about it. The beginning
of the race after the flood was in the same general locality.

Ridpath in his great history of the world, graphically shows the
migrations of races and nations. With this, even evolutionists agree.
They draw a line “according to Giddings,” running through western Asia,
in the region of the garden of Eden. Since there are 4005 such areas in
the habitable globe, Moses had only one chance out of 4005 to guess the
spot, if he had not been inspired of God. Anyone guessing, might have
located the origin of man in any of the countries of Europe, Asia or
Africa. This clearly demonstrates that God revealed the truth to Moses,
and that the story of creation is true and of evolution false.

If evolution were true, there must have been, 6,000 years ago, many
heads to the race, in many places. It is incredible that there would be
but one spot where brutes became humans. There would be an innumerable
host of anthropoid brutes, in many parts of the world, in all
gradations. Who can believe that one species or one pair forged ahead
so far as to become human?



5. CIVILIZATIONS


The early civilization of man points to his creation, not his
evolution. Evolution requires many centers of civilization; creation,
only one. Of course, if man is descended from an ancient ape-like form,
and from the Primates and their brute progeny, he must have been as
uncivilized and brutish as any baboon or gorilla today, or the apes,
which, last year, horribly mangled the children at Sierra Leone. He
must have worked his way up into civilization. The records, as far back
as they go, prove that the original condition of man was a state of
civilization, not savagery. Man fell down, not up.

The recent explorations in the tomb of Tutankhamen, in Egypt, and the
more recent explorations of the tomb of a still more ancient Egyptian
monarch, show that a high degree of civilization prevailed from 2000 to
1300 B.C. The art displayed in the carvings and paintings, and the
skill of the artisans are beyond praise. They had knowledge even of
what are now lost arts. They had a written language 300 years before
Homer wrote his immortal Iliad. Yet many higher critics claim that
writing was unknown in the days of Moses and Homer. They declare that
the Iliad, a poem in 24 books, was committed to memory, and handed down
from generation to generation, 400 years with all its fine poetic
touches. Monstrous alternative! Indeed we are even told that “Many men
must have served as authors and improvers.” The mob of reciters
improved the great epic of Homer! Scarcely less brilliant is the
suggestion of another higher critic that, “Homer’s Iliad was not
composed by Homer, but by another man of the same name”!

The laws of Hammurabi, who is identified as the Amraphel of Scripture,
Gen. 14:1, and who was contemporary with Abraham, were in existence
many hundred years before Moses, and showed a high state of
civilization, which began many hundred years before Abraham. The
literature of China goes back to 2000 B. C. The earliest civilization
of China, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylonia, reaching to 2500 B.C., or
earlier, points to a still earlier civilization, which likely reaches
back to the origin of the human race.

It is admitted that the earliest (Sumerian) civilization began on the
Euphrates, near the garden of Eden. They had temples and priests, and,
therefore, religion prevailed as well as civilization. The first great
empires clustered around the places where Adam and Noah lived. No other
civilization recorded in any quarter reaches farther back.

We quote from the New International Encyclopedia: “The Sumerian
language is probably the oldest known language in the world. From the
Sumerian vocabulary, it is evident that the people who spoke this
language had reached a comparatively high civilization.”

The monuments show that in early historical times, man was in a state
of civilization. There are no monuments of man’s civilization prior to
historical time.

Higher critics have said that Moses could not have written the
Pentateuch because writing was unknown in his day. Yet Prof. A. H.
Sayce, D.D., LL.D., of Oxford University, one of the greatest
archaeologists the world ever knew, writes: “Egypt was the first to
deliver up its dead. Under an almost rainless sky, where frost is
unknown, and the sand seals up all that is entrusted to its keeping,
nothing perishes except by the hand of man. The fragile papyrus,
inscribed it may be 5,000 years ago, is as fresh and legible as when
its first possessor died.

“In Egypt, as far back as the monuments carry us, we find a
highly-developed art, a highly organized government, and a
highly-educated people. Books were multiplied, and if we can trust the
translation of the Proverbs of Ptah-hotep, the oldest existing book in
the world, there were competitive examinations, [civil service!]
already in the age of the sixth Egyptian Dynasty.... We have long known
that the use of writing for literary purposes is immensely old in both
Egypt and Babylonia. Egypt was emphatically a land of scribes and
readers. Already in the days of the Old Empire, the Egyptian
hieroglyphs had developed into a cursive hand.”

From the Tel el-Amarna tablets, discovered in Upper Egypt, we know that
for 100 years people were corresponding with each other, in the
language of Babylonia in cuneiform characters. Libraries existed then,
and “Canaan in the Mosaic age, was fully as literary as was Europe in
the time of the Renaissance.” Ancient Babylonian monuments testify to
the existence of an ancient literary culture. The results of the
excavations by the American Expedition, published by Prof. Hilprecht,
of the U. of Pa., show that in the time of King Sargon of Accad, art
and literature flourished in Chaldea. The region of the garden of Eden
was the pivot of the civilization of the world. From this region
radiated the early civilization of Babylonia, Assyria and Egypt. And
the advanced degree implies centuries of prior civilization. The origin
of man and the earliest civilization occurred in the same region. Ur
explorations (1927) show high art, 3000 B.C.

The earliest records show man was civilized. He lived in houses, cities
and towns, read and wrote, and engaged in commerce and industry. To be
sure, he did not have the inventions of modern times. If all these were
necessary, then there was no civilization prior to the 20th century.
Prof. J. Arthur Thompson, of Aberdeen, an evolutionist, says: “Modern
research is leading us away from the picture of primitive man as
brutish, dull, lascivious and bellicose. There is more justification
for regarding primitive man as clever, kindly, adventurous and
inventive.”

It is admitted that cannibalism was not primeval. The two great
revolting crimes of barbarism, cannibalism and human sacrifices, only
prevailed when man had fallen to the lowest depths, not when he had
risen out of savagery to the heights. The assertion that man was
originally a brute, savage and uncivilized is pure fiction, unsupported
by the facts. The original civilization of mankind supports the Bible,
and upsets evolution.



6. THE MENDELIAN INHERITANCE LAW


The unity of the human race is further established by Mendel’s
Inheritance Discovery on which evolutionists so much rely. G. Mendel,
an experimenter, found that when he crossed a giant variety of peas
with a dwarf variety, the off-spring were all tall. The giants were
called “dominant”; the disappearing dwarfs, “recessive”. But among the
second generation of this giant offspring, giants and dwarfs appeared
in the proportion of 3 to 1. But when these dwarfs were
self-fertilized, successive generations were _all_ dwarfs. The
recessive character was not lost, but appeared again. Experiments with
flowers likewise show that the recessive color will reappear.

Also experiments with the interbreeding of animals have shown similar
results. The recessive or disappearing characteristics, or the
disappearing variety, will appear again, in some subsequent generation,
and sometimes becomes permanent. This law prevails widely in nature,
and the recessive traits appear with the dominant traits. “If
rose-combed fowl were mated with single-combed fowl, the offspring were
all rose-combed, but when these rose-combed fowl were mated, the
offspring were again rose-combed and single-combed.... If gray rabbits
were mated with black rabbits, their hybrids were all gray, the black
seemingly disappearing, but when the second generation were mated, the
progeny were again grays and blacks.”—God or Gorilla—p. 278. _The
recessive character always reappears._

Apply these widely prevalent laws to dominant man and his recessive
alleged brute ancestor. The simian characteristics would appear in some
generations, if not in many. We would expect many offspring _to have
the recessive character of the ape_, and we ought not to be surprised,
if some recessive stock became permanent.

Following analogy, we ought to look for a tribe of human beings that
had degenerated into apes. That we find no such recessive
characteristics even among the most degenerate savages, and no such
ape-like tribe of human beings, is a decisive proof that man never
descended from the brute. Else such recessive characteristics,
according to the Mendelian Law, would be sure to appear. We would also
find monkeys and apes,—the recessive species—descended from man.



7. BIOMETRY


Even new sciences, founded by evolutionists, bear witness against their
theory. Mendel’s Inheritance Law is one, as we have seen; Biometry is
another. It was proposed and advocated by Sir Francis Galton, a cousin
of Charles Darwin. He expected it to be a great prop to evolution; on
the other hand, it is another proof of the unity of our race in Noah’s
day, and hence fatal to their theory. Biometry is defined to be the
“statistical study of variation and heredity.” It bears heavily against
the great age of man.

One of the leading exponents of Biometry, Dr. C.B. Davenport, Secretary
of the Eugenics section of the American Breeders’ Association concludes
that “No people of English descent are more distantly related than
thirtieth cousin, while most people are more nearly related than that.”
Professor Conklin, of Princeton University, approves this conclusion,
and adds, “As a matter of fact most persons of the same race are much
more closely related than this, and certainly _we need not go back to
Adam nor even to Shem, Ham or Japheth to find our common ancestor_.”
Dr. Davenport, therefore, says that the English may find a common
ancestor thirty-two generations ago; Professor Conklin admits that we
need not go further back than Noah to find a common ancestor of all
mankind. Noah, therefore, must have been the head of the race.
Evolutionists admit we need go no farther back than Noah to find the
head of the race, and the population, as we have seen, proves the same
thing, and disproves every guess they have made of the great age of
man. We have descended from Noah and not from the brute.

This same Professor Conklin says that our race began 2,000,000 years
ago (60,000 generations). How is it possible that we must go back sixty
thousand generations for a common ancestor, when thirty-two generations
will suffice for the English, and about 200 generations since Noah, for
the whole race? If we, by the laws of biometry, can find a common
ancestor in Noah, we can not possibly go back 2,000,000 years to find
one. Professor Conklin’s admission refutes his claim of 2,000,000 years
for man. Biometry proves that age absolutely impossible.

If the progeny of this ape-like ancestor inter-bred for many
generations,—as certainly would have been the case—then we are not only
descended from all the monkey family, the baboon, gorilla, ape,
chimpanzee, orang-utang lemur (H. G. Wells’ ancestor), mongoose, etc.,
but are also related to all their progeny. Glorious ancestors! In our
veins runs the blood of them all, as well as the blood of the most
disgusting reptiles. And yet Professor H. H. Newman, an eminent
evolutionist, in a letter to the writer, says, “The evolution idea is
an ennobling one.”! But biometry saves us from such repulsive forbears,
by proving it could not be so.

Biometrists find that there is a Law of Filial Regression, or a
tendency to the normal in every species, checking the accumulation of
departures from the average, and forbidding the formation of new
species by inheritance of peculiarities. The whole tendency of the laws
of nature is against the formation of new species, so essential to
evolution. The species brings forth still “after its kind.” “On the
average, extreme peculiarities of parents are less extreme in
children.” “The stature of adult offspring must, on the whole, be more
mediocre than the stature of the parents.” Gifted parents rarely have
children as highly gifted as themselves.

The tendency is to revert to the normal in body and mind. Nature
discourages the formation of new species, evolutionists to the contrary
notwithstanding. “Like produces like” is a universal and unchangeable
law. God has forbidden species to pass their boundaries; and, if any
individual seems to threaten to do so, by possessing abnormal
peculiarities, these are soon corrected, often in the next generation.
Even Professor H. H. Newman says, “On the whole, the contributions of
biometry to our understanding of the causes of evolution are rather
disappointing.” A science that upsets evolution is certainly
disappointing to evolutionists.



8. NO NEW SPECIES NOW


They tell us that 3,000,000 species of plants and animals developed
from one primordial germ, in 60,000,000 years. How many new species
should have arisen in the last 6,000 years? Now 20 doublings of the
first species of animals would make 1,048,576 species, since 2 raised
to the 20th power becomes 1,048,576. Again we will favor the
evolutionists, by omitting from the calculation all species of animals
in excess of 1,048,576. Therefore, on an average, each of the 20
doublings would take 1/20 of 60,000,000 years, or 3,000,000 years; and,
therefore, 1/2 of the entire 1,048,576 species, or 524,288 species,
must have originated within the last 3,000,000 years. Can that be the
case? Certainly not.

And since the number of species must have increased in a geometrical
ratio, 2097 species must have arisen or matured within the last 6000
years—an average of one new species of animals every 3 years. How many
species actually have arisen within the last 6000 years? 2000? 200? or
2? It is not proven that _a single new species has arisen in that
time_. Not one can be named. If approximately 2000 new species have not
arisen in the last 6000 years, the evolution of species can not
possibly be true. Even Darwin says: “In spite of all the efforts of
trained observers, not one change of species into another is on
record.” Sir William Dawson, the great Canadian geologist, says: “_No
case is certainly known in human experience_ where any species of
animal or plant has been so changed as to assume all the
characteristics of a new species.”

Indeed, a high authority says: “Though, since the human race began, all
sorts of artificial agencies have been employed, and though there has
been the closest scrutiny, yet _not a distinctively new type of plant
or animal_, on what is called broad lines, has come into existence.”

Not a single new species has arisen in the last 6000 years when the
theory requires over 2000. Evolutionists admit this. Prof. Vernon
Kellogg, of Leland Stanford University, in his “Darwinism of Today,” p.
18, says:—“Speaking by and large, we only tell the general truth when
we declare that no indubitable cases of species forming, or
transforming, that is, of descent, have been observed.... For my part,
it seems better to go back to the old and safe _ignoramus standpoint_.”

Prof. H. H. Newman, of Chicago University, in answer to the writer’s
question, “How many new species have arisen in the last 6000 years?”
wrote this evasive reply: “I do not know how to answer your
questions.... None of us know just what a species is. [If so, how could
3,000,000 species be counted, the number, he says, exists?].... It is
difficult to say just when a new species has arisen from an old.” He
does not seem to know of a single new species within the last 6,000
years.

The same question was asked of Dr. Osborn, of Columbia University, N.
Y. The answer by R. C. Murphy, assistant, was equally indefinite. He
wrote: “From every point of view, your short note of Aug. 22nd raises
questions, which no scientific man can possibly answer. We have very
little knowledge as to just when any particular species of animal
arose.” In a later letter, he says: “I have no idea whether the number
of species which have arisen during the last 6000 years is 1 or
100,000.”

Should those who “do not know” speak so confidently in favor of
evolution, or take the “old and safe _ignoramus_” standpoint, as Prof.
Kellogg suggests?

The number of existing species can not be explained upon the ground of
evolution, but only upon the ground of the creation of numerous heads
of animal and plant life, as the Scriptures declare.

We have a right to increase the pressure of the argument, by
introducing into the calculation, the total of 3,000,000 species of
plants and animals which would require 6355 new species within the last
6000 years, or an average of more than one new species a year! And they
can not point to one new species in 6000 years, as they confess. Dr. J.
B. Warren, of the University of California, said recently: “If the
theory of evolution be true, then, during many thousands of years,
covered in whole or in part by present human knowledge, there would
certainly be known at least a few instances of the evolution of one
species from another. _No such instance is known._”

Prof. Owen declares, “No instance of change of one species into another
has ever been recorded by man.”

Prof. William Bateson, the distinguished English biologist, said, “It
is impossible for scientists longer to agree with Darwin’s theory of
the origin of species. No explanation whatever has been offered to
account for the fact that, after forty years, no evidence has been
discovered to verify his genesis of species.”

Although scientists have so largely discarded Darwin’s theory, the
utter lack of new species in historic time, when so many are required
by _every_ theory of evolution, is a mathematical demonstration that
the whole theory of evolution must be abandoned. Q. E. D. Why do they
still insist it _may be true_?



9. MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY


Mathematical Probability is a branch or division of mathematics by
means of which the odds in favor or against the occurrence of any event
may be definitely computed, and the measure of the probability or
improbability exactly determined. Its conclusions approximate certainty
and reveal how wild the guesses of evolutionists are.

The evolution of species violates the rule of mathematical probability.
It is so improbable that one and only one species out of 3,000,000
should develop into man, that it certainly was not the case. All had
the same start, many had similar environments. Yet witness the motly
products of evolution: Man, ape, elephant, skunk, scorpion, lizard,
lark, toad, lobster, louse, flea, amoeba, hookworm, and countless
microscopic animals; also, the palm, lily, melon, maize, mushroom,
thistle, cactus, microscopic bacilli, etc. All developed from one germ,
all in some way related. Mark well the difference in size between the
elephant, louse, and microscopic hookworm, and the difference in
intellect between man and the lobster!

While all had the same start, only one species out of 3,000,000 reached
the physical and intellectual and moral status of man. Why only one?
Why do we not find beings equal or similar to man, developed from the
cunning fox, the faithful dog, the innocent sheep, or the hog, one of
the most social of all animals? Or still more from the many species of
the talented monkey family? Out of 3,000,000 chances, is it not likely
that more than one species would attain the status of man?

“Romanes, a disciple of Darwin, after collecting the manifestations of
intelligent reasoning from every known species of the lower animals,
found that they only equaled altogether the intelligence of a child 15
months old.” Then man has easily 10,000,000 times as much power to
reason as the animals, and easily 10,000,000,000 times as much
conscience. Why have not many species filled the great gap between man
and the brute? Out of 3,000,000 births, would we expect but one male?
Or one female? Out of 3,000,000 deaths, would we expect all to be males
but one? To be sure, all the skeletons and bones found by evolutionists
belong to males except one. Strange! If 3,000,000 pennies were tossed
into the air, would we expect them all to fall with heads up, save one?
The Revolutionary war, out of 3,000,000 people, developed one great
military chieftain, but many more approximating his ability; one or
more great statesmen with all gradations down to the mediocre; scholars
and writers, with others little inferior; but there was no overtowering
genius 10,000,000 or 10,000,000,000 times as great as any other. We
would be astonished beyond measure, if any great genius should rise in
any nation as far ahead of all others, as the species of mankind is
ahead of all other species. It is unthinkable that one species and only
one reached the measureless distance between the monkey and man. It
violates mathematical probability.

We have a right to expect, in many species and in large numbers, all
gradations of animals between the monkey and man in size, intellect,
and spirituality. Where are the anthropoids and their descendants
alleged to have lived during the 2,000,000 years of man’s evolution?
They can not be found living or dead. They never existed. Creation
alone explains the great gap. What signs have we that other species
will ever approximate, equal or surpass man in attainments? Can we hope
that, in the far distant future, a baboon will write an epic equal to
Milton’s Paradise Lost, or a bull-frog compose an oratorio surpassing
Handel’s Messiah?

We find all gradations of species in size from the largest to the
smallest. Why not the same gradation in _intelligence, conscience and
spirituality_? The difference in brain, capacity and intelligence
between man and the ape is 50% greater than the difference in size
between the elephant and the housefly. There are many thousands of
species to fill the gap in size. Why not many thousands to fill the
greater gap in intelligence? Evidently no species became human by
growth. Many species like the amoeba, and the microscopic disease
germs, have not developed at all but are the same as ever. Many other
species of the lower forms of life have remained unchanged during the
ages. If the tendency is to develop into the higher forms of life, why
do we have so many of those lower forms which have remained stationary?
Growth, development, evolution, is not, by any means, a universal rule.

Evolution is not universally true in any sense of the term. Why are not
fishes _now_ changing into amphibians, amphibians into reptiles,
reptiles into birds and mammals, and monkeys into man? If growth,
development, evolution, were the rule, there would be no lower order of
animals for all have had sufficient time to develop into the highest
orders. Many have remained the same; some have deteriorated.

And now we have a new amendment to the theory of evolution: We are told
that the huge Saurians (reptiles) overworked the development idea, and
became too large and cumbersome, and hence are now extinct. Prof. Cope
says:—“Retrogression in nature is as well established as evolution.” It
seems that man also has, contrary to all former conceptions, reached
the limit of his development, if he has not already gone too far.

Prof. R. S. Lull says, (Readings p. 95) “Man’s physical evolution has
virtually ceased, but in so far as any change is being effected, it is
largely retrogressive. Such changes are: Reduction of hair and teeth,
and of hand skill; and dulling of the senses of sight, smell and
hearing upon which active creatures depend so largely for safety. That
sort of charity which fosters the physically, mentally and morally
feeble, and is thus contrary to the law of natural selection, must
also, in the long run, have an adverse effect upon the race.” Too bad
that Christian charity takes care of the feeble, endangering evolution,
and the doctrine that the weak have no rights that the strong are bound
to respect! We are not surprised that Nietzsche, whose insane
philosophy that _might is right_, helped to bring on the world war,
died in an insane asylum.

After all, evolution is not progress and development, but retrogression
and deterioration as well.

But evolutionists, compelled by the requirements of their theory, have
added another amendment, which will seem ridiculous to some:

Environment has had an evolution as well as plants and animals! Having
denied the existence of God, or his active control and interference,
they must account for environment by evolution. Listen:—“Henderson
points out that environment, no less than organisms, has had an
evolution. Water, for example, has a dozen unique properties that
condition life. Carbon dioxide is absolutely necessary to life. The
properties of the ocean are so beautifully adjusted to life that we
marvel at the exactness of its fitness. [Yet no design!]. Finally, the
chemical properties of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen are equally unique
and unreplaceable. The evolution of environment and the evolution of
organisms have gone hand in hand.” And all by blind chance! Is it not a
thousand times better to believe that all things were created by an
all-wise and all powerful God? How could a lifeless environment come by
evolution? If we would listen to them, we would be told that the ocean,
the atmosphere, heat, light, electricity, all the elements, the starry
heavens, and all the universe, and religion itself, came by evolution,
some grudgingly granting that God _may_ have created matter in the
beginning.

It is unreasonable to believe that one species and only one out of
3,000,000 by evolution should attain the status of mankind; and that
one species and only one species of the primates should reach the
heights of intelligence, reason, conscience and spirituality. Huxley
says, “There is an enormous gulf, a divergence practically infinite,
between the lowest man and the highest beast.”

To declare that our species alone crossed this measureless gulf, while
our nearest relatives have not even made a fair start, is an affront to
the intelligence of the thoughtful student. It does fierce violence to
the doctrine of mathematical probability. It could not have happened.



10. THE AGE OF THE EARTH


The estimates of the age of the world vary from 16,000,000 years to 100
times this number or 1,600,000,000 years. Even H.G. Wells admits these
estimates “rest nearly always upon theoretical assumptions of the
slenderest kind.” This is undoubtedly true of the reckless estimates of
evolutionists, whose theory requires such an enormous length of time
that science can not concede it. Prof. H.H. Newman says, “The last
decade has seen the demise (?) of the outworn (?) objection to
evolution, based on the idea that there has not been time enough for
the great changes that are believed by evolutionists to have occurred.
Given 100,000,000 or 1,000,000,000 years since life began we can then
allow 1,000,000 years for each important change to arise and establish
itself.”

An objection is not “outworn” until answered, and to speak of the
demise of a generally accepted theory is hardly scientific. We will not
allow the evolutionist to dismiss so weighty an objection with a wave
of the hand. Prof. Newman, in his “Readings in Evolution,” p. 68, gives
60,000,000 years as the probable time since life began. The writer,
having based arguments upon that assumption, was surprised to receive a
private letter from him claiming that life has existed for 500,000,000
years. Indeed Prof. Russell, of Princeton, says, in his “Rice
Lectures,” that the earth is probably 4,000,000,000 years old, possibly
8,000,000,000! We can do nothing but gasp, while the bewildering
guesses come in, and we wait for the next estimate. We note their utter
abandon, as they make a raid on God’s eternity to support a theory that
would dethrone Him. But these extravagantly long periods required by
the theory, science cannot grant, for the following reasons:—

1. According to the nebular hypothesis, and Helmholtz’s contraction
theory, accounting for the regular supply of heat from the sun, the sun
itself is not likely more than 20,000,000 years old, and, of course,
the earth is much younger. Both of these theories are quite generally
accepted by scientists, and have much to support them. Prof. Young, of
Princeton, in his Astronomy, p. 156, says, “The solar radiation can be
accounted for on the hypothesis first proposed by Helmholtz, that the
sun is shrinking slowly but continually. It is a matter of
demonstration that an annual shrinkage of about 300 feet in the sun’s
diameter would liberate sufficient heat to keep up its radiation
without any fall in its temperature”.... The sun is not simply cooling,
nor is its heat caused by combustion; for, “If the sun were a vast
globe of solid anthracite, in less than 5,000 years, it would be burned
to a cinder.” We quote from Prof. Young’s Astronomy: “We can only say
that while no other theory yet proposed meets the conditions of the
problem, this [contraction theory] appears to do so perfectly, and
therefore has high probability in its favor.” “No conclusion of
Geometry,” he continues, “is more certain than this,—that the shrinkage
of the sun to its present dimensions, from a diameter larger than that
of the orbit of Neptune, the remotest of the planets, _would generate
about 18,000,000 times as much heat as the sun now radiates in a year_.
Hence, if the sun’s heat has been and still is wholly due to the
contraction of its mass, it can not have been radiating heat at the
present rate, on the shrinkage hypothesis, for more than 18,000,000
years; and on that hypothesis, the solar system in anything like its
present condition, can not be much more than as old as that.” If so,
evolution, on account of lack of time, can not possibly be true. If we
add many millions of years to this number, or double it more than once,
the time is not yet sufficient. For if the sun is 25,000,000, or even
50,000,000 years old, by the time the planets are thrown off, in turn,
from Neptune to the earth, and then the earth cooled sufficiently for
animal life, only a few million years would be left for evolution, a
mere fraction of the time required. This is a mathematical
demonstration that evolution can not be true. The same calculations,
18,000,000 to 20,000,000 years, have been made by Lord Kelvin, Prof.
Todd and other astronomers.

2. The thickness of the earth’s crust is fatal to the theory of the
great age of the earth, required by evolution. The temperature
increases as we descend into the earth, about one degree for every 50
feet, or 100 degrees per mile. Therefore, at 2 mi., water would boil;
at 18 mi., glass would melt (1850°); at 28 mi., every known substance
would melt (2700°). Hence the crust is not likely more than 28 miles
thick,—in many places less. Rev. O. Fisher has calculated that, if the
thickness of the earth’s crust is 17.5 mi., as indicated by the San
Francisco earthquake, the earth is 5,262,170 years old. If the crust is
21.91 mi. thick, as others say, the age would be 8,248,380 years. Lord
Kelvin, the well known scientist, who computed the sun’s age at
20,000,000 years, computed the earth’s age at 8,302,210 years. Subtract
from these computations, the years that must have elapsed before the
earth became cool enough for animal life, and the few millions of years
left would be utterly insufficient to render evolution possible. Note
how these figures agree with the age of the earth according to the
Helmholtz contraction theory. The thinness of the earth’s crust is also
proven by the geysers, the volcanoes, and the 9000 tremors and
earthquakes occurring annually in all parts of the world.

3. The surface marks on the earth point to much shorter periods of time
since the earth was a shoreless ocean than those required by
evolutionists, who are so reckless in their guesses and estimates. They
help themselves to eternity without stint. Charles Lyell, a geologist
of Darwin’s time, set the example when he said, “The lowest estimate of
time required for the formation of the existing delta of the
Mississippi is 100,000 years.” According to careful examination made by
gentlemen of the Coast Survey and other U.S. officers, the time was
4,400 years—a disinterested decision. In the face of these three
arguments, it is a bit reckless to say the earth has existed,
1,600,000,000 years,—nearly 100 times as long as proven possible by
mathematical calculation. And still more reckless is the estimate of
Prof. Russell, 4,000,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 years, founded on the
radio-activity theory. All these wild estimates are out of the
question.

The recession of the Niagara Falls from Lake Ontario required only
7,000 to 11,000 years. It required only 8,000 years for the Mississippi
River to excavate its course.

Prof. Winchell estimates that the Mississippi River, has worn a gorge
100 feet deep, 8 miles long, back to the Falls of St. Anthony, in about
8,000 years. The whole thickness of the Nile sediment, 40 feet in one
place, was deposited in about 13,000 years. Calculations by Southall
and others from certain strata have fixed man’s first appearance on the
earth at 8,000 years, in harmony with Scripture.

LeConte, in his Geology, p. 19, says, “Making due allowance for all
variations, it is probable that all land-surfaces are being cut down
and lowered by rain and river erosion, at a rate of one foot every
5,000 years. At this rate, if we take the mean height of lands as 1200
feet, and there be no antagonistic agency at work raising the land, all
lands would be cut down to the sea level and disappear in 6,000,000
years.”

May we not from these data, judge approximately of the age of the
world, and show by this proof also, that the world can not be at all as
old as the evolution theory demands? If the surface of the earth will
be worn down 1200 feet on an average in 6,000,000 years, would it not
also be true that the surface has been worn down at least 1200 feet in
the last 6,000,000 years? For the higher the surface, the more rapid
the erosion. And if the earth is 8,302,210 years old, as Lord Kelvin
computes, then at the same rate, it must have been worn down an average
of 1660 feet,—38% more than remains. Is this not a fair estimate for
the amount of erosion and the age of the world? How high must the land
have averaged, if the world is even 60,000,000 years old?

If this be true, how long would it have taken erosion in the past, to
reduce the land to its present configuration,—the short period
indicated by science, or the immensely long period required by
evolution?

But the evolutionists are clinging to the radio-activity theory
desperately, an S.O.S. of a lost cause, depending, like evolution, on a
great many assumptions, and unproven hypotheses. The assumption is that
a radio-active substance, like uranium, “decays,” or passes into many
other substances, of which radium is one, finally producing lead in
1,000,000,000 years or more. From this theory, Prof. Russell concludes
that the earth is 4,000,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 years old, and the sun
is older still. During this inconceivably long period, the sun was
giving out as much heat as at present, which is 2,200,000,000 times as
much as the earth receives. The heat of the sun can not be accounted
for, by either the combustion or cooling off theory. By the commonly
accepted contraction theory, the heat has been maintained only about
20,000,000 years. How could it have been sustained 4,000,000,000 to
8,000,000,000 years? Prof. Russell answers: “We must therefore
_suppose_ that energy from an ‘unknown source’ becomes available at
exceedingly high temperatures.... We can not do more than _guess_ where
it is hidden.” Is this scientific? This theory, moreover, is
interlocked with Einstein’s theory of Relativity, which holds that all
energy has mass, and all mass is equivalent to energy. Although 2700
books have been written, pro and con, upon Einstein’s theory, yet he
says only 12 men understand it, and a scientist retorts that Einstein
can not be one of the 12. The contraction theory, the thickness of the
cooled crust of the earth, and the conformation of its surface, all
give mathematical proof that evolution is impossible because of lack of
time.



11. GEOLOGY AND HISTORY


During the historical period, the species have remained unchanged. If
over 1,000,000 species of animals have arisen in the 60,000,000 years,
as is claimed, over 2000 of them must have arisen in the last 6,000
years. As evolutionists can not name a single new species that has
arisen within that time, their theory falls to the ground. No species
in that time, has passed into another. No species has been divided into
two or more. No lower species has advanced into a higher. History gives
no scrap of evidence in support of evolution. Even the horse, whose
history has been dubiously traced for 3,000,000 years, has been a horse
unchanged for the last 6,000 years. Even if the missing links in the
development of the horse _could_ be supplied, it would still be the
same species all the while. But there are no transitional forms showing
alleged changes in the development of the horse from the four-toed
creature of squirrel like size. Many varieties and individuals under
the skill of man have been developed and improved, but not a single new
species in historic time. There are 5,000 varieties of apples but no
new species. But when the evolutionist is hard pressed to answer, he
takes to the wilds of eternity where it is hard to pursue him, and to
check up on his guesses. He answers that changes are so slow, and take
so many millions of years, that they can not tell of a single new
species in the last 6,000 years, when over 2,000 are required.

He appeals to Geology, which is history down to historic time,
expecting to take advantage of the ignorance of the careless student.

But Geology will not aid him to prove his reckless theory. Even Darwin
complained that the evidences from Geology were scanty. Geology
testifies: The genera and species of fossil animals are as distinct as
those now living; new species appear at certain epochs entirely
different from those which preceded; often the most perfect specimens
of a new species appear at the beginning of a geologic period rather
than at its close, leaving no room for evolution; no species is shown
changing into another; and many species are largest at the beginning.
As Geology is brought in as a hopeful witness by evolutionists, they
are bound by a well-known principle of law, to accept the statements of
their own witness even though fatal to their theory.

For them, Geology furnishes sorry evidence concerning the evolution of
man from the brute. The great scheme of evolution claims as its chief
support four geologic “finds.” We can not be certain that any one of
these has the slightest evidential value. An ardent evolutionist, Dr.
Dubois, found a few bones, part ape, part human, buried in the river
_sands_, 40 feet deep. They were scattered 50 feet apart, no two joined
together. They called this strange creature pithecanthropus, and fixed
its age at 750,000 years; others reduced it to 375,000 years. These few
bones are no doubt from a modern ape and modern man.

The Heidelberg Jaw was also found _in the sand_, and is guessed to be
700,000 years old. It is hard to be respectful while they gravely tell
such stories. But the next is even worse: The Piltdown man, alias the
Piltdown fake, fabricated out of a few bones of a man and a few of an
ape. It is rejected as a fabrication even by many evolutionists.

The Neanderthal man lived, they say, about 50,000 years ago. A part of
a skull was found in a cave.

All the bones purporting to belong to these four creatures would not
together make one complete skeleton, or even one complete skull. A
child could carry all this “evidence” in a basket. These skulls can be
duplicated by abnormal skulls in many graveyards today. Scientists are
not certain they belong to the same individual. Part ape, part human. A
desperate effort to get convincing evidence, where there is none. We
can not be certain they lived in the age claimed. Scientists, even
evolutionists, differ widely.

In contrast to this scant and uncertain evidence, Ales Hrdlicka, of the
Smithsonian Institution, speaking of a single locality, says, “Near
Lyons, France, the skeletons of 200,000 prehistoric horses are
scattered. In one cave in Moravia, there are enough mammoth teeth to
fill a small sized hall.... From the Heidelberg man, there is
practically no record for about 200,000 years. The kinship of the
Piltdown Java and Heidelberg man _is open to dispute_. The Neanderthal
man may not have been a direct ancestor, of the species which produced
Shakespeare, Napoleon and Newton.” Remains of the unchanged ape are
abundant. But the alleged human remains are scanty and uncertain.’ Now
if there were millions and billions of human beings developing from the
brutes, should we not expect as many remains as of horses and mammoths
and apes? We do not have millions of them, simply because they did not
exist. Is not this well nigh a demonstration?

Shall we, upon this scant and uncertain evidence, accept a theory that
shocks the reason and the moral sense of mankind, and which leads
naturally to infidelity and atheism, and takes away even our hope of
immortality? Later in this volume we will consider more fully the
alleged proofs from these geologic “finds.”

Prof. Charles Lyell said: “In the year 1806, the French Institute
enumerated not less than 80 geological theories which were hostile to
the Scriptures; but not one of these theories is held today.”

Many have come to the hasty conclusion that there was a continuous
elaboration or a progressive growth among all species. True in some
cases, but by no means universal. Many species have remained stable for
millions of years; many have retrograded and deteriorated. Indeed, some
evolutionists claim man has retrograded.

Many species of animals have been larger than their modern descendants.
Many species show no change. All the bacilli remain the same
microscopic species, even those too microscopic to be seen or isolated.
They multiply the same, and produce the same diseases. How can there be
growth in the microscopic world either animal or vegetable? The
doctrine that there is a development and a growth among all species of
animals or plants, is contradicted by the facts. If that doctrine were
true, there would be no lower order of animals after so many millions
of years of growth. All would have been large and of a high order like
others. Since we find a majority of all animal species less in size
than the fly, there has been little growth in most species, and in
many, none at all. The amoebae, one celled animals, smaller than a
small pin-head, have existed unchanged since life began. If plants and
animals all developed from a one-celled animal, such as the amoeba, why
did not the amoeba develop? Or, if some developed, why not all?
Certainly there would not remain a great multitude of species in the
microscopic world.

Of many species small and large, we have many fossils preserved but _no
transitional forms_. The archæopteryx, a bird with a feathered tail, is
the only alleged transitional form between the reptiles and the birds.
Only two specimens of this same animal have been found. This could
easily be an exceptional species of created birds differing no more
from the normal bird than the ostrich or humming bird. If there were
transitional forms we ought to have them by the millions. No
transitional forms have been found between reptiles and mammals; and we
have seen that there are no reliable forms between man and mammals. The
numerous missing links make a chain impossible. Evolution is not simply
growth or change, but the development of all species from one germ.



12. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION


Geographical Distribution, another witness claimed by the
evolutionists, bears testimony, which they are bound, in law, to
receive.

We find animals whose power of locomotion is very limited, scattered
all over the world, like the mollusca and crustacea, embracing a large
number of families, genera, and species. It is incredible that these
all originated in one place, and from one germ, and migrated to distant
parts of the world. The oyster, for example, is found in Europe,
Africa, North and South America. There are over 200 species, found in
all warm tempered climates, but none in the coldest regions. How could
they cross the ocean and be distributed along all continents? They are
soon attached to solid rocks, or other supports, and do not move at
all. And if they do, how could they cross thousands of miles of ocean
barren of all food?

Dr. George W. Field, an expert authority, says the oysters of Europe
are unisexual, but in America, they are double-sexed. How could one be
derived from the other? Even the oyster is too much for the
evolutionist. The same argument applies to a great multitude of
species, that have little or no powers of locomotion.

If all plants and animals originated from one germ in one place, how
can plants, indigenous to a single continent, or hemisphere, be
accounted for? Why, for example, was there no maize, or Indian corn, in
the old world? Or tomatoes, potatoes, or any other plants indigenous to
America? If these once existed in the old world, as they must have
done, according to the theory, why were they found in America alone?

Here we quote from Prof. Agassiz, one of the greatest authorities the
world ever knew: “I will, therefore, consider the transmutation theory
of species as a _scientific mistake, untrue in its facts, unscientific
in its method, and mischievous in its tendency.” (Italics ours and
yours)._



13. GOD NOT ABSENT NOR INACTIVE


The theory that God is absent or inactive is as untenable and
God-dishonoring as the discarded theory of atheism itself.

Evolution, as held by many, harmonizes with and supports the false and
impossible assumption that God created one, or at most, a few germs,
from which all animal species including man, and plants developed, by
“natural law.” This theory seems plausible to those who do not examine
it too closely. It does not deny the existence of God, and concedes he
may have created one or more germs, but delegated the development of an
orderly world to “natural law.” Thus his activities are no longer
needed. Perhaps they entertain the thought that God must grow weary
under the active and sleepless control of the universe, if not of the
world alone. They lose sight of the fact that a God of infinite mind
and power can not be wearied by any possible complications, or any
required amount of energy. Rather, the exercise of unlimited energy is
a source of pleasure and happiness. May we not learn this from the
boundless extent of the universe? Creation is not a task, but a great
satisfaction. If God finds so much happiness in creating a boundless
universe, would he renounce the pleasure of the active care and control
of 3,000,000 species?

The hypothesis that God delegates to “law” the evolution of the
universe, the world, and all species, is untenable, because no law,
human or divine, can enforce itself. Law has no power. It is not a
being, a creature, a living thing. It is absolutely helpless. It can
not be God’s agent to carry out his will. Why the need of it? Why
should not God use his power direct to do his will? What gain in
creating and employing an agent? Which would be easier, to execute his
own will, or delegate it to a law?

His law is simply the record of his acts. He executes his own will with
exact regularity. He does not vary. Hence, all his creatures may depend
on regularity. It seems like law. The power in every case is the power
of God. Law has no power. The law of gravitation has no power. Matter
has no power. One of the primary lessons we learn in physics is the
inertia of matter. Matter can not move, unless moved upon; nor stop of
itself, when once in motion. Absolutely powerless! The power of
attraction, which we may call a property of matter, is really the power
of God. The effects are the results of power and intelligence. Law has
neither power nor intelligence. Human law marks out the course man
_should_ pursue. Divine law records the course God _has_ pursued. Human
law must be enforced by all the executive power of the nation. God
executes his own will, with perfect regularity; and, by courtesy of
language, we call it “law.” He is the great executor of the universe,
not far removed, but proven present everywhere, by the power and wisdom
necessary to produce the results. These results are found in the
boundless universe, and in the microscopic world. They are found in the
world far below the power of the most powerful microscope to detect.
All the combinations of chemical elements are made, hidden from the eye
of the microscope. Substances are dissolved and new combinations made,
atoms are numbered, counted and combined with mathematical precision,
and with an intelligence difficult for man to compute. No law could do
this. Only a Being who has sufficient power and intelligence is equal
to it. Law has no power, nor intelligence. Water is composed of two
atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen, combined with absolute precision
everywhere. All chemical reactions require computations of an
intelligent being. All nature teems with proofs that God is every where
present. The elements in a high explosive are arranged instantly in new
combinations, each atom taking its proper partners, in the proper
proportion, with unerring precision. Countless calculations of the most
difficult kind are made instantly and continually by the divine mind.
Thus God’s presence everywhere in the minutest forms of matter is
clearly proved. It is a mathematical demonstration. God is not wearied
by the care of worlds and suns, and systems and snow-drifts of stars on
the highway of heaven, and takes just as perfect notice of atoms and
electrons. They who think God is unable or unwilling to take care of
the minutest division of matter as well as the rolling suns, must have
a very diluted idea of God. It is now claimed that the atom, formerly
believed to be the smallest division of matter, consists of 1740 parts.
Sir Oliver Lodge says that the structure of an atom is as complex as
that of a piano. This latest scientific discovery detects the power and
wisdom of God, controlling, for ages, this minutest division of matter,
undetected by the most powerful microscope.

It staggers one to think of the countless and difficult calculations
that are made instantly by the divine mind in every part of the
universe. The path of every snowflake that lazily pursues its tortuous
course, and rests upon the lap of earth, is marked out, not by any law
or agent, but by God himself. He calculates instantly the cyclone’s
path, the movement of every particle of air, the direction, velocity
and path of every raindrop. A law could not do it. The wisest man could
not do it. But God can do it, with the ease with which the tempest
carries a feather on its bosom, or the ocean floats a straw! Every
second, about 16,000,000 tons of rain and snow fall to the earth; and
God calculates the paths of the myriad flakes of snow and drops of rain
instantly and unerringly.

The Conservation of Energy and the inter-convertibility of
forces—light, heat, electricity,—taking place constantly everywhere,
often on a stupendous scale, require bewildering calculations by an
ever-present God. No energy, not even potential energy, can be lost in
converting one force into another. It must be computed exactly.

Who but an infinite God could have calculated the enormous potential
energy of the nebulous gases, required by contraction to cause the
prodigious heat of a universe of suns?

The earth turns over noiselessly every 24 hours, carrying on its bosom,
at the rate of 1000 mi. an hour, at dizzy heights, a most tenuous
atmosphere, without a rustle, without the loss of a second in 1000
years. The earth with its satellite, is traveling around the sun at the
rate of 18.5 mi. per second—75 times as fast as a cannon ball,—bearing
a load of 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons, and arriving at a given
point in its orbit, on exact time every tropical year. It has arrived
so promptly on time following its elliptical course, at such a rate
that the radius vector, a line from the sun to the earth, passes over
equal areas in equal times, furnishing every moment an abtruse problem
difficult for a scholar to solve. The orbit is so vast that it varies
from a straight line, but 4 in. in 666 mi., the distance from
Philadelphia to Chicago.

The sun also, with its family of worlds and their satellites, is
plunging through space at the rate of 8.5 mi. per second; moreover,
there are swarms of huge suns, many larger than ours, moving in
straight-lines like a universe on a journey, and countless millions of
suns in swiftest flight through the skies, whose orbits and rates of
motion must all be calculated and controlled by a mind of amazing power
and intelligence.

Is not the so-called “scientist” either a madman or a fool, who
believes that all this can be accounted for, without the presence of a
God of infinite power and intelligence?

Water contracts as the temperature falls. But when within four degrees
of the freezing point, water expands and ice becomes lighter than
water, and floats, and saves all bodies of water from becoming solid
bodies of ice.

Who can say that God does not intervene, in this case, to save all
life? It is a striking proof that God is not absent nor inactive.

Gravitation requires the computation of countless millions of the most
complex and difficult problems, every instant, by the divine mind. The
attraction of all matter for all other matter is in proportion directly
to the mass and inversely to the square of the distance. The exact
weight of every object is determined by the attraction of the earth and
every particle thereof, the mountain that may be nearby, the elevation
and altitude of the place, the attraction of the sun and the moon, and
every star in heaven, even though too small to be computed by man,—all
these are computed precisely by the divine mind. These innumerable
calculations prove that God is everywhere. We are continually in the
immediate awesome presence of an Infinite God.

Every computation that man ever made, was made long before by a great
Intelligence, that excels all others combined. How intricate is the
calculation of the divine mind, which causes the water of every ocean,
sea, lake, pond, and vessel, when at rest, to correspond with the exact
sphericity of the earth. In the face of innumerable and difficult
calculations,—proofs of the intense activity of the divine mind,—who
can be so reckless as to say that God is absent or inactive?

Not only does God make endless calculations in executing his will in
the material universe, but in the intellectual, moral and spiritual
world as well. We can not measure, with any human instruments, the
amount of mental discipline and improvement, resulting from a certain
amount of study. But God calculates unerringly the precise amount of
mental discipline or improvement earned by every mental exertion. The
amount is in precise proportion to the mental effort. The gain is
definite, exact and unerring, the calculation is instantaneous, and
beyond the power of the profoundest mathematician to compute. So also,
the effect of every moral act, wish, desire, purpose, intention or
affection, is instantly computed, and the moral character modified in
exact proportion to their weight. If a man indulges in vice, he becomes
vicious in proportion. If he commits a crime, he becomes more criminal
in nature. Every theft is computed at its proper value. Every good and
noble act ennobles the character in proportion to its worth. There is a
settlement, every instant, and all deeds, wishes, desires, purposes,
and affections go into the character, and affect it in precise
proportion to their weight. Who but an infinite God, can keep all
accounts of his innumerable creatures instantaneously, and have them
complete, exact and unerring? No man, nor angel, nor “law,” could do
it. In like manner, every spiritual act, wish, purpose, motive,—all go
in to make up the spiritual life of man, in exact proportion to their
worth. Not all the mathematicians and scribes in the universe could
together solve the problems, that the great intellect of the Supreme
Ruler is solving every instant of time.

This theory of an absent or inactive God leaves no place for prayer, an
almost universal instinct of mankind. If a blind, deaf, and dumb and
helpless law is in control, it is useless to pray for help. All
nations, races and peoples instinctively believe that God hears and
answers prayer. This is a scientific fact with which evolutionists must
reckon, even if it has a pious or otherwise offensive sound. No use to
pray to an inexorable “law,” which, like the gods of the heathen, can
neither see, nor hear, nor taste, nor smell.

How unscientific then seems the following declaration of Darwin: “To my
mind, it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on
matter [How could that be?] by the Creator, that the production and
extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have
been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and
death of the individual.” It does not remove the First Great Cause from
active control of the world to call his acts “secondary causes.”



14. CHANCE OR DESIGN?


Evolution is the old heathen doctrine of chance. It professes to
eliminate design and a personal active Creator. The theory of natural
selection allows no design, no intelligence, no interference, no
control, by the Creator. He does not interfere even by means of law. M.
M. Metcalf, of Oberlin, O., (shades of Chas. G. Finney!), a prominent
evolutionist, says, “The last stand was made by those who claim that
supernatural agency intervenes in nature in such a way as to modify the
natural order of events. When Darwin came to dislodge them from this,
their last intrenchment, there was a fight.” Yes! the fight will last
while any one tries to substitute chance for the control of Almighty
God.

The universe teems with countless evidences of intelligent design of
the highest order, whether it is found in the starry heavens, or in the
law and order of the atoms hiding from the most powerful microscope.
All things came by chance or by design. They say there is no design. We
wonder that the hand that wrote the lie was not palsied. It would be,
if the same Creator that filled every muscle, nerve, bone, and tissue
of the sacrilegious hand, with numberless proofs of design, were not a
long-suffering and merciful God.

Prof. Vernon Kellogg says: “Darwinism may be defined as a certain
rational causo-mechanical (hence non-teleologic) explanation of the
origin of species.” Translated into plain English, this euphemistic
expression means that Darwinism excludes all design and control by a
Creator. Chance pure and simple. All species originated by chance,
without interference by a supreme Being. This senseless doctrine of
chance has been condemned by man in every age.

We can only note a few of the evidences of design, found in bewildering
numbers in every part of God’s great creation.

The Human Body. Can evolutionists imagine how the human body could be
crammed fuller of the clearest proofs of the most intelligent design,
indicating a mind of the highest order? Many of the most remarkable
inventions of man were suggested by the wonderful contrivances found in
the human body. Yet they say this marvelous piece of ingenuity did not
come from the hand of the Creator but was developed by blind chance or
“natural laws,” without a trace of intelligent design by the Creator,
or by man or beast. The human body can no more be a product of chance
or causo-mechanical evolution than a Hoe printing press, or Milton’s
Paradise Lost.

On high medical authority, we are told that there are in the human body
600 muscles, 1000 miles of blood vessels, and 550 arteries important
enough to name. The skin, spread out, would cover 16 square feet. It
has 1,500,000 sweat glands which spread out on one surface, would
occupy over 10,000 sq. ft., and would cover 5 city lots, 20 x 100 ft.
The lungs are composed of 700,000,000 cells of honey comb, all of which
we use in breathing,—equal to a flat surface of 2,000 square feet,
which would cover a city lot. In 70 years, the heart beats
2,500,000,000 times, and lifts 500,000 tons of blood. The nervous
system, controlled by the brain has 3,000,000,000,000 nerve cells,
9,200,000,000 of which are in the cortex or covering of the brain
alone. In the blood are 30,000,000 white corpuscles, and
180,000,000,000,000 red ones. Almost 3 pints of saliva are swallowed
every day, and the stomach generates daily from 5 to 10 quarts of
gastric juice, which digests food and destroys germs. Two gallons
daily! It is easy also to believe that the “very hairs of our heads are
numbered,”—about 250,000.

Yet many an upstart, with thousands of the most marvelous contrivances
in his own body, is ready to shout that there is no God and no design,
or that there has been no interference since creation, and that our
bodies have reached the dizzy heights of perfection, without
intelligence, purpose or design. Absurd in the highest degree! “We are
fearfully and wonderfully made.”

The Eye. Darwin says, “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable
contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for
admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of
spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural
selection, _seems, I frankly confess absurd in the highest degree_.”
(Italics ours). After admitting that it “seems absurd in the highest
degree,” he proceeds, as if it were certainly true. Darwin has been
admired for his candor, but not for his consistency. After admitting
that an objection is insuperable, he goes on as if it had little or no
weight. And many of his followers take the same unscientific attitude.
They try to establish their theory in spite of overwhelming arguments.

“Reason tells me,” he says, “that if numerous gradations from a simple
and imperfect eye, to one complex and perfect, can be shown to exist,
such gradation being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case”
(certainly?), “if further,” he continues, “the eye varies and the
variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case” (most
modern evolutionists say certainly _not_ the case; what, if variations
are unfavorable?); “And if such variations should be useful, (what if
not useful?) to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the
difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye _could_ be
formed by natural selection, _though insuperable to the imagination_
(Italics ours) should not be considered as subversive of the theory”!!
Darwin undertakes a task far too great for his mighty genius.
“Believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed” is many
moral leagues from proving that it was so formed. We must have stronger
proof than sufficient to lead us to believe that such an eye could
possibly be so formed. All proof is exhausted in the struggle to prove
the possibility of the formation of so marvelous an eye, to say nothing
of the probability, much less the certainty required by science. We
hold evolutionists to the necessity of proving that the eye was
_certainly_ so formed. We demand it. Otherwise, we shall certainly
“consider it subversive of the theory.” And if acquired by one species,
how could it benefit another species? But we must contest the claim
that the wonderful eye of man and animals _could_ have been formed by
evolution. Darwin’s whole theory aims to account for all creation, with
its super-abundant evidences of design, by natural selection, which
works without design and without intelligence. The theory is founded
upon the monstrous assumption that unintelligent animals and plants,
can, by aimless effort arrive at such perfection as the organs of the
human body, exceeding anything in mechanical contrivance, invented to
date by the genius of man. Indeed, that wonderful invention of the
telescope is but a poor imitation of the eye, and does not begin to
equal it in marvelous design. Who would say that the telescope might
have been constructed by chance, or the fortuitous concurrence of
atoms, or by natural selection, or any other attempted method of
blotting out the great intelligent Designer of the universe? It not
only “_seems_ absurd in the highest degree,” but certainly _is_, and is
fatal to the theory.

The eye is so wonderful in its powers, and delicate adjustments, that
we stand amazed at the evidences of design, and at the wisdom of the
Maker of the eye, far exceeding the highest inventive genius of man. To
say that this is the result of “natural selection,” is absurd and
ridiculous. Evolution eliminates design, mind, and an active and ever
present God, and substitutes blind chance or natural selection, dubs it
“science” and asks the world to believe it!

According to the evolution theory, the gain in the mechanism of the eye
causes its possessors to survive, and others to die. Is that true? Are
there not many species that survive, whose eyes are less perfect than
the eye of man? Indeed, it is claimed that many animals have eyes
superior to man. If so, why did man survive and become the dominant
species, with eyes less perfect? The compound eyes of some species are
superior in some respects, as every one knows, who has ever tried to
slip up on a fly. A scientist says that fleas have such perfect vision
that the darkness under the bed clothes is to them a glaring light.

Darwin makes a fatal admission, when he says, “To arrive, however, at a
conclusion regarding the formation of the eye with all its marvelous
yet not absolutely perfect characters, it is indispensable that the
reason should conquer the imagination; But I _have felt the difficulty
far too keenly to be surprised at others hesitating to extend the
principle of natural selection to so startling a length_.” (Italics
ours). No wonder the reason and judgment of mankind revolts against
such a theory and that so many evolutionists themselves reject it.

Three or four per cent. of the population are color blind—“red-blind”
—and are not able to distinguish the color of the green leaves from
that of the red ripe cherries. Can it be possible that the eye becomes
more perfect, because those who had less perfect eyes perished, and
only those who could recognize colors survive until color blindness is
finally eliminated? Is such a doctrine scientific? Is it more
reasonable to believe it than to believe that an infinitely wise and
powerful God created this organ of marvelous value and beauty? Of
course, the ability to recognize color is only one of the many
perfections of the eye.

Evolution is made so much more incredible, because it teaches that
every permanent improvement in the eye is made at the expense of
multitudes of individuals that perished because of the lack of the
improvement. The defect perished only because all individuals afflicted
with it perished. Is this true?

The bureau of education of the U.S. government reports that, of
_22,000,000_ school children examined, 5,000,000 have defective eyes;
1,000,000, defective hearing; 1,000,000 have active tuberculosis;
250,000, heart trouble; 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 are underfed; total,
12,250,000,—more than half. Must all these defectives perish in order
that man may reach perfection? Less than half are the “fittest” and
they only could survive.

Location of organs. But if the evolutionist _could_ convince the
thoughtful student that the marvelous eye could have been so formed, by
blind chance or natural selection, how could he account for the
advantageous location of the eye and other organs? While we can not
well name a fraction small enough to express the mathematical
probability of the formation of the eye, the ear, and other organs of
the body, we easily can compute the fraction of the probability of
their location, though very small. In the passage quoted from Darwin,
he begins with the simple eye, but does not say how the eye originated.
Hon. William J. Bryan in his book, “In His Image,” p. 97, says, “But
how does the evolutionist explain the eye, when he leaves God out? Here
is the only guess that I have seen,—if you find any others, I shall be
glad to know of them, as I am collecting the guesses of the
evolutionists. The evolutionist guesses that there was a time when eyes
were unknown—that is a necessary part of the hypothesis. And since the
eye is a universal possession, among living things, the evolutionist
guesses that it came into being,—not by design or act of God—I will
give you the guess,—a piece of pigment, or as some say, a freckle,
appeared upon the skin of an animal that had no eyes. This piece of
pigment or freckle converged the rays of the sun upon that spot, and
when the little animal felt the heat on that spot, it turned the spot
to the sun to get more heat. This increased heat irritated the skin,—so
the evolutionists guess—and a nerve came there and out of the nerve
came the eye. Can you beat it? But this only accounts for one eye;
there must have been another piece of pigment or freckle soon
afterward, and just in the right place in order to give the animal two
eyes.”

Now assuming, what seems an utter impossibility, that the wonderful
mechanism of the eye can be accounted for by chance or natural
selection (another name for chance since design is excluded), how can
we account for the _location_ of the eyes, and, in fact, of all the
other organs of the body? We can easily calculate the mathematical
probability on the basis of natural selection. There are from 2500 to
3500 square inches of surface to the human body, a space easily 3000
times the space occupied by an eye. The eye, by the laws of
probability, is just as likely to be located any where else, and has
one chance out of 3000 to be located where it is. But out, of our
abundant margin, we will concede the chance to be one out of 1000, and
hence its mathematical probability is .001. For mathematical
probability includes possibility and even improbability. The compound
probability of two things happening together is ascertained by
multiplying together their fractions of probability. Now the
probability of the location of the second eye where it is, also is
.001. And the compound probability of the location of both eyes where
they are, is .001 x .001 or .000,001. In like manner, the probability
of the location of each ear where it is, is .001, and of the two ears
.000,001. The compound probability of the location of two eyes and two
ears where they are, is .000001 x .000001 or .000,000,000,001. The two
eyes and two ears have but one chance out of a trillion or a million
million to be located where they are. The location of the mouth, the
nose, and every organ of the body diminishes this probability a
thousand fold. We are speaking mildly when we say that this calculation
proves that the evolution of the body, by chance or natural selection,
has not one chance in a million to be true. So ruthlessly does the pure
and reliable science of mathematics shatter the theory of evolution,
which so called scientists claim is as firmly established as the law of
gravitation.

Concerning the wild guess of the development of the legs, we again
quote from Mr. Bryan, “In His Image,” p. 98: “And according to the
evolutionist, there was a time when animals had no legs, and so the
legs came by accident. How? Well, the guess is that a little animal was
wiggling along on its belly one day, when it discovered a wart—it just
happened so,—and it was in the right place to be used to aid it in
locomotion; so, it came to depend upon the wart, and use finally
developed it into a leg. And then another wart, and another leg, at the
proper time—by accident—and accidentally in the proper place. Is it not
astonishing that any person, intelligent enough to teach school, would
talk such tommyrot to students, and look serious while doing so?”

Some one has counted that Darwin has used phrases of doubt, like “We
may well suppose,” 800 times in his two principal works. The whole
theory is built up on guesses and suppositions. “Let us suppose” that
each guess is 95 per cent certain, which is far higher than the average
or any. The compound probability would equal .95 raised to the 800th
power which would be .000,000,000,000,000,006,281 which means there are
6 chances out of a quintillion that evolution is true. Since not all of
these 800 suppositions are dependent upon each other, we are willing to
multiply this result by 10,000,000,000 which still shows that the
theory has less than one chance in a million to be true. Darwin himself
says, “The belief that an organ so perfect as the eye could have been
formed by natural selection, is more than enough to STAGGER ANY ONE.”
Yet he and his followers refuse to be “staggered,” and proceed to argue
as if this unanswerable objection had little or no weight. _Any
hypothesis is weakened or damaged by every support that is an uncertain
guess_. Gravitation has no such support.

Mr. Alfred W. McCann, in his great volume “God or Gorilla,” shows that
H. G. Wells, the novelist _alias_ historian(?), in his “Outline of
History,” uses 103 pages to show man’s descent from an ape-like
ancestry, and employs 96 expressions of doubt or uncertainty, such as
“probably,” “perhaps,” “possibly,” etc. He does not hesitate to endorse
the wildest guesses of the evolutionists, and sits upon the top of this
pyramid of doubt, and proclaims, _ex cathedra_, apparently without a
blush, of our ancestors: “It was half-ape, half-monkey [elsewhere, he
says the lemur was our ancestor]. It clambered about the trees and ran,
and probably ran well, on its hind legs upon the ground. It was small
brained by our present standards, but it had clever hands with which it
handled fruit and beat nuts upon the rocks, and perhaps caught up
sticks and stones to smite its fellows. IT WAS OUR ANCESTOR.”!!!

And he does not hesitate to give a picture of our ancestor drawn by an
artist 500,000 years after its death. Yet this book so dangerous, so
anti-christian, and so untruthful concerning the origin of man, is
recommended by careless librarians, by scholars, and even by
Christians. It will take a long time to erase from the mind of the
youth, the false teachings of this book. It is one of the most
cunningly devised plans ever attempted to teach infidelity and atheism
in the name of history.

Plans for man prove design. All nature is crowded with evidence that
God intended to create man. He made great preparation for his coming.
He provided many things useful to man but to no other species. Veins of
coal, almost innumerable—the canned sunshine of past ages—, are placed
near the earth’s surface, accessible for man, when needed for his use.
Of no value whatever to any other species, because they can not make or
replenish a fire. A colored preacher did not miss the mark, when he
said, “God stored his coal in his great big cellar for the use of man.”
The man who fills his own cellar with provisions for the winter
exhibits no more foresight or design.

The oil and gas were also evidently stored away in the earth for the
use of man. It is worth nothing to animals. Over 41,000,000,000 gallons
of oil were consumed in the U.S. in 1924.

All the other minerals likewise were stored in the earth for the use of
man alone,—iron, copper, gold, silver, all the valuable
minerals,—knowing that man would make use of them. The most precious
and most useful minerals are of no value whatever to any species of
animals. God foresaw the marvelous inventions of the present and the
future, and provided the means ages ahead of time. The universe is
crowded so full of design, that there is no room for chance or natural
selection.



15. EVOLUTION ATHEISTIC


Evolution harmonizes with atheism and kindred false theories. This
raises a presumption against its truth, as falsehood does not agree
with the truth. It is reconcilable with infidelity and atheism, but not
with Christianity. Many, like Prof. Coulter, of the Chicago University,
endeavor to show that evolution is reconcilable with _religion_—and he
does show that it harmonizes with the religion of deism or infidelity.
No one doubts that evolution harmonizes with atheism or the religion of
Thomas Paine. But why should we be anxious to reconcile it with
Christianity, when there is so little truth to support it?

Many evolutionists are atheists. Some believe in the eternity of
matter. This can not be. Both mind and matter can not be eternal. Mind
controls matter; and not matter, mind. Hence the mind of God created
matter.

Some believe the universe came into being by its own power, though that
can not be. Power or force cannot create itself. It must be attached
directly or indirectly to a person. No force can be disconnected from
its cause. Detached force is unthinkable. All force in the universe can
be traced to God. Much of the physical power of the earth can be traced
to the sun,—storms, cataracts, steam, electricity,—and the sun gets its
power from God. Gravitation, extensive as the universe, is but the
power of God in each case.

The total force in the universe _is_ beyond calculation. It is a part
of the power of Almighty God. It approaches infinity. All heat is
convertible into power, and power into heat. Heat, when converted into
power, moves the mighty engines. The power of Niagara may be converted
into heat and light. The sun had lifted the waters of the whole Niagara
River, and the lakes far above the Falls. Its power is enormous. It
lifts up over 1,000,000,000,000 tons of water to the clouds every
day,—more than all the rivers and streams pour into the seas. The sun
equals in size a pile of more than a million worlds like ours. Every
square yard of surface of this enormous sphere, has enough heat to push
a great liner across the sea,—as much power as in many tons of coal.
The amount of heat in the surface of the sun, consisting of more than
2,284,000,000,000 sq. mi., can hardly be imagined. The heat of one sq.
mi. (3,097,600 sq. yds.) would drive 3,000,000 ships across the
sea,—150 times as many as are afloat. More than 2,200,000,000 times as
much heat as the earth receives, goes out into space. And this enormous
amount of heat is but a poor fraction of the heat of 400,000,000 suns,
few of which are so small as ours.

A single star, Betelguese, has recently been computed to be 215,000,000
mi. in diameter, and therefore larger than 10,000,000 suns like ours. A
still more recent computation shows stars even larger. Antares is
390,000,000 mi. in diameter, equal, to 91,125,000 suns, or
136,687,500,000,000 worlds. If our sun were in the centre of this sun,
it would extend beyond the orbit of Mars. Alpha Hercules is 300,000,000
mi. in diameter. Some stars are so far away that it takes light 60,000
years to reach us, at the rate of 186,000 mi. in a second. Some say
there are 400,000,000 enormous suns. Compute, if you can, the sum total
of the power causing the light and heat, and the power of gravitation
controlling these vast swarms of stars. All this power is the power of
God, and a weak fraction of the total. This power could not originate
itself. It could not grow. It could not come by evolution. It could not
come by chance.

The doctrine of the Conservation of Force, accepted by scientists,
proves that no part of force can be lost. A God of infinite power is
required to create, maintain and control this vast universe. Force can
no more create itself than matter. God must create and preserve both.
It takes almighty power to maintain the universe in existence, as well
as to create it.

If atheism be true, then, if there was even one germ to start with, as
most admit, it must have created itself, unless the absurd claim that
it came from another world, riding on a meteorite, be entertained. If
such a foolish assumption were possible, it would require a God to
create it in another world.

“The fool hath said in his heart, ‘No God’.” Some translators would
supply the words omitted by the Hebrew, and make it read: “The fool
hath said in his heart, ‘_There is_ no God’.” Others, “The fool hath
said in his heart, ‘_I wish there were_ no God’.” It is hard to tell
which is the bigger fool, the man who refuses to see the countless
evidences of design, proving His existence; or the man who refuses to
see the terrible wreck of the great universe, and the awful chaos that
would result if there were no God. We can imagine only one greater fool
than either: The man who thinks he can get the world to believe, under
cover of evolution, that there is no God, and that all things were
evolved by chance, even though it be camouflaged by the terms “natural
selection” or “natural law.”

Atheism implies spontaneous generation, which is entirely without
proof. Indeed, if spontaneous generation were possible at the beginning
of life, it is possible now, and has been possible during all the ages.
But no proof of it has been given. On the contrary, all efforts to
secure, by chemistry, the lowest forms of life from dead matter have
been without avail. Dr. Leib, of Chicago University, made earnest
efforts to do so. He failed utterly. If nature, aided by the genius of
man, can not now produce the lowest forms of life from matter, how
could it ever have been done? Prof. Huxley filled jars with sterilized
water, and placed in it sterilized vegetation, and sealed them up, and
after 30 years, no life was seen, disproving spontaneous generation.
Pasteur proved that, if milk were sterilized, there would be no
development of life by spontaneous generation. This discovery was of
immense practical value, making milk safe to use. Prof. Tyndall, the
distinguished physicist, said: “If matter is what the world believes it
to be, materialism, spontaneous generation, and evolution, or
development, are absurdities too monstrous to be entertained by any
sane mind.” Dr. Clark Maxwell, another distinguished physicist, says,
“I have examined all [theories of evolution] and have found that every
one must have a God to make it work.” _L’Univers_ says: “When
hypotheses tend to nothing less than the shutting out of God from the
thoughts and hearts of men, and the diffusion of the leprosy of
materialism, the savant who invents and propagates them is either a
criminal or a fool.” Even Darwin seems to be conscious of a designing
mind when he says, “It is difficult to avoid personifying the word
Nature. But I mean by nature only the aggregate action and product of
many natural laws.” A futile effort to exclude God. Who made these
laws?

Can a theory that is consistent with false theories, like chance and
atheism be true? Truth is consistent with truth, but not with
falsehood. We can judge a theory by the company it keeps. Evolution
naturally affiliates with false theories rather than with the truth. It
favors infidelity and atheism. A theory in perfect harmony with
manifest error, raises a presumption against its truth. Evolution seems
to have a natural attraction for erroneous hypotheses and manifests the
closest kinship with impossible theories. This is not a mark of a true
theory.

So baneful has been the effect of teaching evolution as a proven
hypothesis, that multitudes have been led into infidelity and atheism.
Prof. James H. Leuba, of Bryn Mawr College, Pa., sent a questionaire to
1000 of the most prominent scientists teaching sciences relating to
evolution. The replies indicate that more than one-half do not believe
in a personal God, nor the immortality of the soul,—beliefs almost
universal even in the heathen world. So pernicious is this doctrine of
evolution that more than one-half of the professors who teach it and
kindred subjects, are infidels and atheists and farther from God than
the ignorant heathen. And while we are happy in the conviction that the
great majority of professors and teachers of other subjects are
Christians, yet one or two atheists or infidels are sufficient to make
havoc of the faith of many, in a great college or university.

A doctrine so abhorrent to the conscience, so contrary to the well nigh
universal belief, and so fruitful of evil, certainly can not be true.
Small wonder is it that students are fast becoming infidels and
atheists, and we shudder as we think of the coming generation. A great
responsibility rests upon the authorities who employ such teachers.

The answers of the students in seven large representative colleges and
universities to Prof. Leuba’s questionaire, show that while only 15% of
the Freshmen have abandoned the Christian religion, 30% of the Juniors
and over 40% of the Seniors have abandoned the Christian faith. Note
the steady and rapid growth of infidelity and atheism as a result of
this pernicious theory.

Will Christian parents patronize or support or endow institutions that
give an education that is worse than worthless? What the colleges teach
today the world will believe tomorrow.

Atheism, under its own name, has never had many to embrace it. Its only
hope is to be tolerated and believed under some other name. In Russia,
no man is allowed to belong to the ruling (Communist) party unless he
is an atheist. It will be a sorry world when “scientific” atheism wins,
under the name of evolution.

No one has a moral right to believe what is false, much less to teach
it, under the specious plea of freedom of thought.

It is the privilege and duty of parents to send their children to
institutions that are safe.

Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb kidnapped and cruelly murdered
Robert Franks. Both were brilliant scholars and atheists. Both
graduates of universities, though minors, and both were taking a
post-graduate course in the University of Chicago. It is asserted and
widely believed that they were encouraged in their atheistic belief by
the teaching of evolution and modernism, and were thus prepared to
commit a crime that shocked the world.

Most of the writers who advocated evolution became atheists or
infidels; most of the professors who teach it, believe neither in God
nor the immortality of the soul; and the number of students discarding
Christianity rose from 15% in the Freshman year to 40% in the Senior.
What more proof is needed?



16. BRUTE DESCENT IMPOSSIBLE


According to Prof. R. S. Lull and other evolutionists, “The skull of
the pithecanthropus is characterized by a limited capacity of about
two-thirds that of a man.” Assuming that this skull is that of a normal
creature of that age, as is done in all the arguments of “our friends,
the enemy,” then the pithecanthropus must have lived 20,000,000 years
ago, one-third the period assigned to life. They claim the
pithecanthropus lived 750,000 years ago; later the guess is reduced to
375,000. Does any one in his senses believe that an ape-human animal
developed one-third of the normal human brain in 375,000 or 750,000
years, when it took 59,250,000 years to develop two-thirds of the
brain? If one-third of the normal brain developed in the last 750,000
years, the rate of development must have been 39.5 times as great as in
the preceding 59,250,000 years. If one-third developed in the last
375,000 years, the rate of development must have been 78 times as rapid
as in the preceding 59,625,000 years. This is incredible. If life began
500,000,000 years ago, and one-third the brain developed in the last
750,000 years, the rate must have been 332 times as rapid as in the
preceding 499,250,000 years; and 666 times as rapid in 375,000 years as
in the preceding 499,625,000 years. All these guesses are clearly
impossible.

But the agile evolutionist may try to escape the death sentence of
mathematics and the condemnation of reason, by saying that the brain
developed more rapidly than the rest of the body. But he is estopped
from that claim, by the statement of this same Prof. R. S. Lull: “The
brain, especially the type of brain found in the higher human races,
must have been _very_ slow of development.” If so, the pithecanthropus
must have lived more than 20,000,000 years ago! So swiftly does
inexorable mathematics upset this reckless theory.

This calculation has been made upon the basis of the estimate of
60,000,000 years since life began, taken from Prof. H. H. Newman in
“Readings in Evolution,” p. 68. But, seeing that even this great
estimate of the period of life is not sufficient for evolution, in a
private letter to the writer, Prof. Newman raises his guess to
500,000,000 years. In that case, the pithecanthropus must have lived
one-third of 500,000,000, or 166,666,666 years ago. And, if we are
reckless enough to admit the “moderate estimate” of 1,000,000,000
years, gravely suggested by Prof. Russell, of Princeton University, it
must have lived 333,333,333 years ago. These reckless estimates seem
removed, by the whole diameter of reason, from even a respectable
guess. Every new guess seems to make their case more hopeless. And any
guess that they can make, out of harmony with the Scripture statement,
can be disproved by cold mathematics. In like manner, if the Piltdown
man had the estimated brain capacity of 1070 c.c., instead of the
normal 1500 c.c., this fabricated creature must have lived about
17,200,000 years ago, if life began 60,000,000 years ago; and
143,333,333 years ago, if life began 500,000,000 years ago; (c.c. =
cubic centimeters).

Prof. Schaaffhausen, the discoverer, estimated the capacity of the
Neanderthal man at 1033 c.c. Then he must have lived 18,680,000 years
ago, if we accept the 60,000,000 year period; and 311,333,333 years
ago, if we accept Prof. Russell’s guess of 1,000,000,000 years.

And in all these long ages, fragments of only four skeletons of very
doubtful character have been found, and upon this flimsy proof, the
youth of our land are expected by self-styled “scientists” to believe
it, even though it leads them into infidelity and atheism, and causes
the loss of their souls.

Let us take another view. Let us assume that the pithecanthropus really
lived 750,000 years ago, as claimed, which is 1.25% of 60,000,000
years. Therefore, its brain capacity then should have been 98.75%
normal, or 1481.25 c.c. or 18.75 c.c. less than the normal 1500 c.c.
Also 750,000 years is only .15% of 500,000,000 years; hence in that
case, the brain should have been 99.85% normal, or 1497.75 c.c. In
either case, the intelligence must have excelled that of many nations
and races. All these calculations prove positively that no such
creatures as these four alleged ape-men ever could have lived in the
age assigned to them; or, if so, that none could have had, at that
time, the low brain capacity claimed. Q. E. D.

Is it not plain that for the last 2,000,000 years out of 60,000,000
years, the developing human race must have been over 29/30 or 96 2/3%
normal, in intelligence, morality, and spirituality? This is greater
than that of many peoples today. With this high degree of intelligence,
man was capable of great inventions and discoveries. Not a single
monument remains. We would expect some great monument like the pyramids
of Egypt. A race with such advancement, for so many years would have
been able to reach the heights of invention, discovery, and learning of
the present age. Not a whit of evidence comes down to us.

If 2,000,000 years ago, man had the same skull capacity as the ape, 600
c.c., he has gained 900 c.c. in 2,000,000 years, and only 600 c.c. in
58,000,000 years. His improvement in the last 2,000,000 years, must
have been 43.5 times as rapid as during the preceding 58,000,000 years;
or 373.5 times as rapid as during the preceding 498,000,000 years. How
was that possible?



17. EIGHT IMPASSABLE GULFS


The evolution theory, stretching from matter to man, is impossible,
because of many impassable gulfs. Some of these impassable gulfs are:—


Between the living and non-living or dead matter;

Between the vegetable and the animal kingdoms;

Between the invertebrates and the vertebrates;

Between marine animals and amphibians;

Between amphibians and reptiles;

Between reptiles and birds;

Between reptiles and mammals;

Between mammals and the human body;

Between soulless simians and the soul of man, bearing the image of God.


There is not a scrap of evidence that these gulfs have ever been
crossed. In the scheme, the material must become living by spontaneous
generation; some plants must become invertebrate animals; some
invertebrates must become vertebrates; some marine animals must become
amphibians; some amphibians must become reptiles; some reptiles must
become mammals; some mammals must become humans; some senseless,
soulless simians must acquire a soul and become spiritual enough to
bear the image of God.

There is no convincing proof that any of these great and incredible
advances were ever made. If we estimate the probability of each
transmutation at 10%, which is too high, then the probability that all
these changes up to man were made is .1 raised to the 8th power,
.00000001. Therefore, there is not more than one chance out of
100,000,000 that these 8 changes were made. And if we estimate the
probability of each great change at .001, which is doubtless still too
high, the probability that man took these 8 great steps of evolution is
one out of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or a million, million,
million, million. If we estimate the probability of each change even at
60%, which is far above all reason, the probability of man’s evolution
through these 8 changes is only 1 out of 60, which marks an
improbability close to an impossibility. The highest estimate we can
reasonably make, destroys all hope that man or even any other species
could have come by evolution. Few persons realize how improbable an
event is made which depends upon a number of possibilities or even
probabilities, until calculated by the rule of Compound Mathematical
Probability.

Imagine the Copernican or the gravitation theory depending on a number
of possibilities or probabilities! No true theory is built on such an
uncertain foundation.

But, if the evolutionists could prove that 7 out of 8 of the great
changes certainly did occur, but failed to prove the 8th, they would
lose their case. But they have failed in all. They must prove all to
win. There is not the slightest probability that any one of these
changes ever occurred. Hence, the evolution of man from this long line
of alleged ancestors is an absolute impossibility. Q. E. D.

None of these changes is _now_ occurring. There is no spontaneous
generation now. Darwin himself said that spontaneous generation in the
past was “absolutely inconceivable.” No reptiles are becoming mammals,
none becoming birds, no apes or monkeys are becoming men. No species is
now transmuted into another, no new species arises. Is not this proof
enough that such great changes never occurred?

Moreover, if dead matter caused one living germ, why did it not cause
more? If some reptiles developed into mammals, and birds, why not all?
If one family of simians became human, why not others? Why not at least
become anthropoids? Why did all other members of the simian family not
become at least part human? Why have they remained stationary?

Besides, we have with us yet the invertebrates that have not yet become
vertebrates; marine animals that have not become amphibians; amphibians
that have not become reptiles; reptiles that have become neither
mammals nor birds, and a multitude of simians that have not become
human, and are not moving toward man either in bodily form or
intelligence or spirituality. We have the one-celled amoeba, the
microscopic animals, and the lowest forms of animal life. If the great
law of progress and advancement to higher forms has prevailed for so
many million years, there should be none but the highest species. All
should have reached the status of human beings and there should be none
of the lower forms of life which are so abundant. Changes so radical
and vast, stretching through so many ages, would require millions of
connecting links. If reptiles became hairy mammals, we would expect
fossils of thousands, if not millions, in the transition state. If some
reptiles were changed into the 12,000 species of birds, we would expect
countless fossils, part reptile, part bird. Only one is claimed, the
archæopteryx (ancient bird), two specimens of which are known, which
had a feathered tail, and which is only a slight modification of other
birds. Many other birds have departed farther from the normal. There
should be millions of fossils in the transition state if the theory
were true. We have proven elsewhere that there is no credible evidence
of links connecting man with the monkey family. There would have been
many millions. We have shown, at length, that some of these great
changes, especially the Evolution of man from the brute, could never
have occurred. No one of these nine great advances was ever made, but
it will suffice to examine now, as examples, two alleged great changes,
reptiles into mammals, and reptiles into birds.

1. Evolutionists say that mammals are descended from some reptiles,
unknown, of course, and birds from others, also unknown. Mammals differ
from reptiles in having breasts (Latin, mammae), a four chambered heart
instead of three, a coat of hair or fur or wool, and a womb for the
young. The temperature of the blood of reptiles is as low as 60 and
even 40 degrees, since the temperature of the blood is about the same
as the environment, sometimes approaching the freezing point. But
mammals have a temperature approaching 100°. We are to believe that one
progressive branch of reptiles, which passed through the sieve of
natural selection, during the Permian Ice Age, was capable of being
adapted to the colder climate. But this mighty chasm between reptiles
and mammals was crossed unaided by any external interference, unaided
by God; then the mammals groped their way, without intelligence or
design, up to man! The difficulties are too great to satisfy the
serious student. No satisfactory explanation has been given. No
fossils, part reptile, part mammal, have been found. We would naturally
expect millions of them. Evidently none ever existed. How could such
radical changes be brought about? What caused the development of hair,
fur and wool? The change in the heart, and the temperature, the
formation of the mammae and of the womb? There is no evidence of such
change. But it is necessary to the scheme.

2. Some reptiles became birds, they say; whether a pair for each of the
12,000 species of birds or one pair for all, we can not learn. For
nobody knows. They would like for us to believe that these cold-blooded
reptiles with a temperature of 40 to 60 degrees became birds with a
temperature as high as 107; that wings and feathers were developed,
which must have been perfectly useless through the long ages during
which they were developing; that the wonderful contrivances in the
wings and feathers were made by senseless reptiles that did not know
what they were doing. Reptiles have a three-chambered heart, making
them cold-blooded. Birds have a four-chambered heart, and a temperature
higher than that of man. Reptiles left their eggs to hatch in the sun.
Birds, by a fine instinct, built their nests with care. Some reptiles
have 4 feet, some 2, some none. All birds have two feet. The bird’s
structure is so well suited for flight and shows the marks of design so
clearly, that the clumsy aeroplane is but a poor imitation. Yet to link
the 12,000 species of birds to their unknown reptilian ancestors, they
show us two fossils of the archæopteryx, as the sum total of the
evidence showing the transition from reptiles to birds. The fossil
varies slightly but not essentially from other birds. It has a
feathered tail, some teeth and claws. It is probably not a connecting
link at all, and if it were, we would expect a million fossils of
connecting links. All these nine transmutations are devoid of a single
sure connecting link, when we would expect millions in every case.
These facts prove that evolution is a delusion and an absurdity.



18. ANCESTRAL APES AND MONKEYS


Many have taught that man was descended from an ape or monkey.
Evolutionists, ashamed of a doctrine so repugnant to all reason and so
revolting to mankind, vainly imagine they can escape the odium of such
a view, by declaring that man is not descended from an ape or monkey,
but that all the primates including all monkeys, apes, and man, sprang
from a common ancestor. Of this alleged ancestor _not a single fossil
remains_. Dr. Chapin, Social Evolution, page 39, says: “When the
doctrine of the descent of man was first advanced, superficial and
popular writers immediately jumped at the conclusion that naturalists
believed that man was descended from the monkey. This, of course, is
quite absurd, as man obviously could not be descended from a form of
life now living. The ape and the monkey family, together with man are
probably (?) descended from some generalized ape-like form long since
perished from the earth.” Suppose this absurd and unsupported guess to
be correct. Then the gorillas, chimpanzees, gibbons, orang-outangs and
other apes; the baboons and other monkeys; and the lemurs and man were
brothers and sisters, or otherwise closely related, and all were
descended immediately or nearly so from a common ancestor _lower than
any_. Where is the comfort or gain? Moreover, all the members of this
primate family must have inter-breeded for ages, until, according to
the theory, they became distinct species. Therefore, the ancestors of
man, for ages, must have been descended from all these members of the
primate family, and are thus the offspring of _all_ these repulsive
brutes, and the blood of them all is in our veins! In attempting to
rescue us from the ape as our ancestor, they have shown that we are
descendants of the whole monkey family and every species of ape and of
many of their more disreputable relatives also. Great is evolution!

It certainly would be impossible for one single pair to have become the
ancestors of the human race, without mixing and interbreeding with
their kindred primates. Where are the descendants of these mongrel
breeds, part monkey and part man? We would expect all gradations of
mixed animals from monkey to man. “Two or three millions of years ago
an enormous family of monkeys spread over Europe, Asia and Africa.” All
related, many our ancestors.

Why did not some other species of the primates equal or excel man or
advance part way between man and the brute? Why are they not now
becoming human? It is plain to the sincere student that the evolution
of man from the brute is only the product of the imagination of those
who wish to deny special creation and exclude God from his universe.

The slight external resemblance between man and the ape family is more
than offset by structural differences which deny kinship. Alfred McCann
in his great book “God—or Gorilla” says, p. 24, “Man has 12 pairs of
ribs; the gibbon and chimpanzee, 13; man has 12 dorsal vertebrae; the
chimpanzee and gorilla, 13; the gibbon, 14. The gorilla has massive
spines on the cervical vertebrae above the scapula”; and, like the
other quadrumana (4-handed animals) has an opposable thumb on the hind
foot. There are wide differences in the shape of the skull, thorax,
femur, and even the liver. The skeleton of the brutes is much more
massive. On the tips of the fingers and thumbs of the human hand are
lines arranged in whorls, for identification. In monkeys, the lines are
parallel on the finger tips, but whorls on the palm. Is it possible
that man and such brutes came from the same parents?



19. A STAGGERING SPECULATION


The theory that all plants and animals have descended from one
primordial germ, is staggering to the mind. If so, how was it? Did this
original germ split in two, like some disease germs, one of them the
beginning of plant life, and the other the head of all animal life? Or,
did vegetation only, grow from this first germ for ages, and then some
of it turn into species of animals? As if the guess were worthy of
attention, some are ready to assert that early vegetation Algae turned
into animals. Did plants become animals somewhere along the way? Or did
animals, somewhere along the way, turn into plants? How long did they
interbreed before the gap became too wide? Where are the descendants of
the union between plants and animals? If animals were first developed
from this first germ, what did they live on while there was no
vegetation? What folly is like the folly of the evolutionist who claims
that such weird speculation is science?

Great gaps between the principal divisions of the animal world are
fatal to this speculation, which rests upon nothing but the wish that
it were so. Links are lacking between marine and amphibian animals;
reptiles and birds; reptiles and mammals; between apes and man. Of
course, we would find fossils of millions of these links if there were
any. The missing links are necessary to the scheme. Is there one chance
in a million that evolution is a true hypothesis?



20. SEX


Can the evolutionist explain the origin of sex? Starting with one germ
or even a few germs, reproduction must have been by division for a
time. If the germ that became the head of all plant life, reproduced by
division, when did it begin to reproduce by seeds?

It is still more difficult to explain when sex life began in animals.
There could have been no sex life at first, and perhaps for ages. They
can not tell us when the animals, by chance, acquired the wonderful
adaptation of the sexual life. They have no evidence whatever. Their
guess is no better than that of others. It passes credulity to believe
that the sexual life, with all its marvelous design, was reached by the
invention of irrational animals, when man, with all his powers of
reason, invention, and discovery, is helpless even to understand the
great wisdom and power that brought it about.

Can blind chance, or aimless effort by senseless brutes, accomplish
more than the amazing design of an infinitely wise and powerful God?

How was the progeny of mammals kept alive, during the ages required for
the slow development of the mammae?



21. MAN HAIRLESS AND TAILLESS


How did man become a hairless animal? is a hard question for
evolutionists. Any scientific theory must be ready to give an account
of all phenomena. A hypothesis to explain the origin of man must
explain all the facts. How did man become a hairless animal? Darwin’s
explanation is too puerile for any one professing to be a learned
scientist to give. He says that the females preferred males with the
least hair (?) until the hairy men gradually became extinct, because,
naturally, under such a regime, the hairy men would die off, and,
finally only hairless men to beget progeny would survive. What do
sensible, serious students think of this “scientific” explanation? If
we try to take this explanation seriously, we find that the science of
phrenology teaches that females, as a rule, inherit the traits of their
fathers, and males the traits of their mothers. Hence, not the males
but the females would become hairless by this ridiculous process. How
do evolutionists account for the hair left on the head and other parts
of the body? Why do men have beard, while women and children do not? If
the hair left on the body is vestigial, why is there no hair on the
back, where it was most abundant on our brute ancestors? Even Wallace,
an evolutionist of Darwin’s day, who did not believe in the evolution
of man, calls attention to the fact that even the so-called vestigial
hair on the human form is entirely absent from the back, while it is
very abundant and useful on the backs of the monkey family. If there
was any good reason why the human brute should lose his hair, why for
the same reason, did not other species of the monkey family lose their
hair? Can it be explained by natural selection? Was the naked brute
better fitted to survive than the hairy animal? Did man survive because
he was naked, and the hairy brute perish? Evidently not, for the hairy
brute still exists in great abundance.

The best way to get rid of the hair of the brute is for some
reconstructing artist, like Prof. J. H. McGregor, to take it off. In a
picture widely copied by books in favor of evolution, photographed from
his “restorations,” the pithecanthropus, the Neanderthal man, and the
Cro-Magnon man are represented almost without hair on the body or even
without beard. Only the Neanderthal man has a tiny Charlie Chaplin
mustache. Their hair had not been combed for 1,000,000 years; yet we
could not detect it. A sympathetic artist can make a “restoration” suit
his fancy and support any theory.

If we are descended from simian stock, how did we come to lose our
tails? Would not the same causes, if any, cause all the species to lose
their tails? According to the laws of biometry, ought we not to find a
retrogression of sections of the human race, who would sport simian
tails and be clothed with simian hair? Or, could natural selection
explain the loss of the tail on the ground that all the monkeys with
tails died off, while the tailless ones survived, and developed into
human beings? In that case, a tail must have been a fatal imperfection.



22. HYBRIDS


“Hybrids would seem to be nature’s most available means of producing
new species.” Yet the sterility of hybrids defeats that possibility,
and rebukes the untruthful claim of the formation of new species.
Nature, with sword in hand, decrees the death of hybrids, lest they
might produce a new species. Moses wrote the rigid unchanging law of
nature, when he said that every living creature would bring forth
“after its kind.”

Species are immutable. One does not become another, or unite with
another to produce a third. Dogs do not become cats, nor interbreed to
produce another species. A few species, so nearly related that we can
scarcely tell whether they are species or varieties, as the jackass and
the mare, may have offspring, but the offspring are sterile. The zebra
and the mare may produce a zebulon, which is likewise sterile. And so
with the offspring of other groups intermediate between species and
varieties. A human being and ape can not beget an ape-human, showing
that they are not even nearly related species.

If evolution be true, we would expect a frequent interbreeding and
interchanging of species. Even Darwin admitted that species are
immutable. God declared it in his word, and stamps it indelibly on
every species. “And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth the living
creature after its kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the
earth, after its kind’.”-Gen. 1:24. How did Moses know this great
truth, unless he was told by inspiration of God?

Even plant-hybrids are not permanent. Darwin himself says: “But plants
not propagated by seed, are of little importance to us, for their
endurance is only temporary.”

Even if it could be proven that species, like varieties, are formed by
development, it does not follow that genera and families and classes
are so developed. But it has not been proved that a single species has
been added by development, much less orders, families and genera.
Evolution must account for every division and sub-division to plant and
animal life. Darwin answers the objection to the sterility of hybrids
by saying, “We do not know.” “But why,” he says, “in the case of
distinct species, the sexual elements should so generally have become
more or less modified, leading to their mutual infertility, we do not
know.” But God knows.



23. THE INSTINCT OF ANIMALS


The instinct of animals is not due to their own intelligence. It is
unerring, unchangeable, without improvement or deterioration. It
implies knowledge and wisdom of the highest order. It is beyond the
wisdom of man. It comes direct from God. It is not learned nor gained
by experience. It is found in many species of animals, and even in a
child, until knowledge and reason make it unnecessary.

One of the most familiar illustrations is the instinct of the honey
bee. It builds its cells in exact geometric form and we compute, by
Calculus, that the form it uses produces the greatest capacity in
proportion to the amount of material used. Who taught the bee to build
its cell, displaying greater knowledge than that of many a college
graduate? Darwin says (Origin of Species), “It can be clearly shown
that the most wonderful instincts with which we are acquainted, namely
those of the honey bee, could not possibly have been acquired by
habit.” We quote from Granville’s Calculus, p. 119: “We know that the
shape of a bee cell is hexagonal, giving a certain capacity for honey
with the greatest possible economy of wax.” This is demonstrated by the
solution of a problem in this same Calculus. Darwin again says (Origin
of Species, vol. I, p. 342), “We hear from mathematicians, that bees
have practically solved a recondite problem, and have made their cells
of the proper shape to hold the greatest possible amount of honey, with
the least possible consumption of precious wax in their construction.
It has been remarked that a skilful workman, with fitting tools and
measures, would find it very difficult to make cells of wax of the true
form, though this is effected by a crowd of bees, working in a dark
room. Each cell, as is well known, is a hexagonal prism, with the basal
edges of its six sides, beveled so as to join an inverted pyramid of
three rhombs. These rhombs have certain angles, and the three which
form the pyramidal base of a single cell on one side of the comb, enter
into the composition of the bases of the three adjoining cells on the
opposite side.”

Can any one suggest an improvement or show an imperfection? If this
intelligence is the bee’s own, which is far superior to that of the
ape, why did not the bee develop a human brain?

Yet in spite of Darwin’s admission, he labors hard to show that “There
is no real difficulty under changing conditions of life, in natural
selection accumulating to any extent slight modifications of instinct
which are in any way useful”! How could the working bee conserve the
gains accumulated by experience or habit? The drone is the father and
the queen is the mother of the sterile female working bee. Neither
parent knows how to build a cell. How could they transmit their
knowledge or their habits to the working bee? Every new swarm of bees
would not know how to build their cells. There is no improvement from
generation to generation. Even if instinct in other animals could be
accounted for, evolution can not account for the instinct of the
working bees, since they are not descendants of other working bees,
from which they might inherit habits or instinct.

Is not the instinct of the bee the intelligence of God, disproving the
heresy of an absentee God? Here again we get a glimpse of the unerring
wisdom of God.

The immoveable oyster, the bee alive with divine intelligence, and the
sterile progeny of the jackass, are enough to upset the whole theory of
evolution.



24. SPECIAL CREATION: GEN. I


Evolution can not be true, because it contradicts the inspired word of
God. We do not speak arbitrarily and say, without proof, that whatever
contradicts the revealed word of God can not be true, although such an
attitude could be easily defended. Disregarding all the many other
cogent and legitimate arguments in support of a divine revelation, we
will appeal to the remarkable harmony between the story of Creation in
Genesis and the modern sciences. This could not be, if God had not
revealed to Moses the story of creation. Moses personally knew nothing
revealed by the sciences of today. And the man of that day who would
invent the story of creation, would be sure to conflict with one or
more of the following modern sciences: geology, astronomy, zoology,
biology, geography, chemistry, physics, anatomy, philology,
archaeology, history, ethics, religion, etc. There is not one chance in
a million that a writer of a fictitious account would not have run
amuck among many of these sciences, if, like Moses, he had no personal
knowledge of them.

Although the Babylonian account may have had some foundation in fact,
from a tradition of a prior revelation, it plainly bears the marks of
error. “The Babylonian stories of creation are full of grotesque and
polytheistic ideas, while those of the Bible speak only of the one
living and true God.” “All things,” the Babylonian legend says, “were
produced at the first from Tiamat.” “The gods came into being in long
succession, but, at length, enmity arose between them and Tiamat, who
created monsters to oppose them. Merodach, a solar deity, vanquished
Tiamat, cut her body in two, and with one-half of it made a firmament
supporting the upper waters in the sky, etc., etc.” The Babylonian
gods, like even those of the classics, were criminals fit only for
prison or death.

Alfred Russell Wallace, who, with Darwin, devised the evolution theory,
says: “There must have been three interpositions of a Divine and
supernatural power to account for things as they are: _the agreement of
science with Genesis is very striking_: There is a gulf between matter
and nothing; one between life and the non-living; and a third between
man and the lower creation; and science can not bridge them!”

This “striking agreement” between science and Genesis I, is shown by
the fact that at least 11 great events are enumerated in the same order
as claimed by modern science: 1. The earth was “waste and void”; 2.
“Darkness was upon the face of the deep”; 3. Light appears; 4. A
clearing expanse, or firmament; 5. The elevation of the land and the
formation of the seas; 6. Grass, herbs and fruit trees appear; 7. The
sun, moon and stars _appear_; 8. Marine animals were created; 9.
“Winged fowls” were created; 10. Land animals were created; 11. Man was
created.

The chance of guessing the exact order of these 11 great events is
ascertained by the law of permutations-the product of the numbers from
1 to 11, which is 39,916,800. Therefore, Moses had one chance out of
39,916,800 to guess the correct order of these 11 great events, as
revealed both by science and revelation. If, for example, the first 11
letters of the alphabet were arranged in some unknown miscellaneous
order, any one would have but one chance out of 39,916,800 to guess the
order. If Moses did not have the order revealed to him, he never could
have guessed it. Therefore, he was inspired and was told the order.

This mathematical demonstration annihilates the contradicting theory of
evolution. At once it proves that the account was divinely inspired,
and man came by special creation and not by evolution. The fact that
the language of Genesis is in remarkable harmony with all proven modern
scientific theories, and manifestly confirmed by them, is a proof in
favor of the creation story, decisive and final.

This harmony is manifest whether the Heb. _yom_, day, be taken to mean
a long period, as advocated by many biblical scholars, or a literal day
of 24 hours, followed, it may be, by years or ages of continuance of
the work, before the next day’s work of 24 hours began.

Believing that this interpretation does no violence to the text, and
that it is especially in harmony with the statements in the fourth
commandment and elsewhere in the Bible, it is here briefly presented as
one interpretation, showing the marvelous harmony between revelation
and the proven, and even the generally accepted, scientific theories.
The stately procession of events is the same, no matter which
interpretation is accepted, and doubtless will remain, even if both
must yield to another and better interpretation. This majestic divine
order, in harmony with both science and revelation, removes all doubt
of special creation.

Another interpretation, advocated by many scholars, is that all
geologic ages may have intervened during the time indicated between the
1st and 2nd verses of Gen. I.

The following is a possible, and, it would seem, a probable
interpretation of the inspired creation story. The words of Scripture,
whether from the American Revision, or marginal rendering of the
original Hebrew, or other translation, are put in quotation marks:—

THE CREATION—GENERAL STATEMENT


“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” including the
sun, moon and stars, and all other matter in any form.

DETAILED STATEMENT OF THE ORDER OF CREATION


“And the earth was waste and void,” literally “desolation and
emptiness.” And, on account of the thick vapors in the hot atmosphere,
“darkness was upon the face of the deep,” and doubtless had been for
ages.

“And the Spirit of God was brooding upon the face of the waters,” and
_perhaps_ was calling into being the lowest forms of marine life.

The First Day’s Work. Light Appears.


“And God said, ‘Let the light appear’,” through the thick vapors. And
the light appeared, so that the day could now be distinguished from the
night. “And there was evening, and there was morning, one day.” This
day did not need to be an age or even 24 hours for God’s work. How long
did it take light to appear? Many years, and even ages, may have
followed between each day’s work as the “days” were not necessarily
consecutive, and it is not so stated.

Second Day’s Work. A Clearing Expanse.


“And God said, ‘Let there be a clearing expanse (called heaven)
dividing the waters which were on the earth from the waters in the
thick clouds above, firmly suspended in the air’.” This may have
continued a long time, though begun in 24 hours.

Third Day’s Work. Land, sea and vegetation appear.


“And God said, ‘Let the waters under the expanse be gathered together
into one place (seas and oceans), and let the dry land appear’.” The
contraction of the cooling earth caused the elevation of the land, and
the draining of the waters into the seas. The geologist Lyell says,
“All land has been under water.” Hitchcock says, “The surface of the
globe has been a shoreless ocean.” “And the earth brought forth grass,
herb yielding seed after its kind, and tree bearing fruit, wherein is
the seed thereof, after its kind.” Though the sun was not yet visible
on account of dense clouds and vapors, the warm, humid atmosphere was
suitable for the grass, herbs, and fruit trees,—three great classes
which represented the vegetable kingdom. Ages may have again
intervened.

The Fourth Day’s Work. Sun, moon and stars made visible.


“And God said, ‘Let lights be seen in the open expanse of heaven, to
divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for
seasons, and for days and years’.” “And God made the two great lights
to _appear_,” since neither had been seen through the thick clouds,
“the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night. He made the stars also to _appear_.” Though created first, the
stars would appear last. Ages more may have intervened.

The Fifth Day’s Work. Animal life in sea and air.


“And God said, ‘Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures,
and let birds fly above the earth upon the face of the expanse of the
heaven’.” “And God created great sea monsters, and every living
creature that moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly, after
their kinds, and every winged fowl after its kind.” Geology and Moses
alike testify that swarms of animals filled the seas. The ages rolled
on while they “filled the waters of the seas and fowl multiplied on the
earth.”

The Sixth Day’s Work. The creation of land-animals and man.


“And God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its
kind, cattle and creeping things, and beast of the earth after its
kind’.” The fifth day animals began to _swarm_ the seas; the sixth day,
to cover the land. “And God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after
our likeness’,” in “knowledge after the image of him that created him,”
(Col. 3:10) and “in righteousness and true holiness,” (Eph. 4:24). Yet
a professor in a great university was so dense as to insist that the
Scriptures taught that the likeness was not in “knowledge,
righteousness and true holiness,” but in the bodily form. “So God
created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him.” The
last of all creation as both revelation and science testify. The image
is mental and moral and spiritual. No such image in any other species.

The body chosen was higher and better than the form of any animal. It
resembles the bodies of mammals of the highest type. Why should it not?
The vast number of animal species, of almost every conceivable size and
shape, could not furnish a form so well adapted to the use of man as
that which the Creator gave him. Would it have been better if man had
been created in the form of a fish, a lizard, a serpent, a dog, or a
horse, or a bird? How could the body have been created without bearing
resemblance to some form of the million species of animals? A
resemblance can be traced through the whole creation, the material as
well as the animal, but it does not follow that one species is
descended from another, but that there was one general plan, and one
God. The existence of man, who can not be otherwise accounted for,
proves the existence of the Creator.



25. ANALOGY; MATHEMATICS, LAWS


Analogy raises a presumption against evolution. Analogy is not a
demonstration. It is an illustration that strengthens and confirms
other arguments. Both the science of mathematics and all physical laws
must have come into being in an instant of time. Evolution is not God’s
usual method of creation.

1. Mathematics.—There is no evolution in the science of mathematics.
There is no change or growth or development. God is the author of all
mathematical principles. The square described on the hypotenuse of a
right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on
the other two sides, because he made it so. The circumference of a
circle is approximately 3.1416 times the diameter because he made it
so. The wonderful calculations by logarithms, whether by the common
system with a base of 10, or the Napierian system with a base of 2.718+
a decimal that never terminates, are possible and reliable only because
God made them so. Think what great intelligence is required by the
Napierian system, to raise a decimal that never terminates, to a
decimal power that never terminates, in order to produce an integral
number. Yet God has computed instantaneously every table of logarithms,
and every other mathematical table,—no matter how difficult. Thus we
have positive proof of the presence everywhere of a great intelligent
Being, and we catch a glimpse of that mind that must be infinite. He
created the whole system of mathematics, vast beyond our comprehension,
at once. A part could not exist without the whole. No growth; no
change; no evolution; no improvement, because the whole system was
perfect from the first. Reasoning from analogy, is it not reasonable to
say that the God who flashed upon the whole universe, the limitless
system of mathematics in an instant, also created man as Moses said?
Analogy supports the doctrine of the special creation of man in a day.

The great system of mathematics which could not exist without a
creator, is so extensive that 40 units are taught in a single
university. New subjects are added, new text books written, new
formulas devised, new principles demonstrated,—and the subject is by no
means exhausted. He, by whose will this fathomless science came into
existence, knows more than all the mathematicians of the past, present
and future, and possibly all the evolutionists of the world.

2. Physical Laws.—All physical laws, prevailing throughout the
universe, came into being by the will of God, in an instant of time. No
growth, no change, no development, no evolution. The presumption is
that God created all things in a similar way. If it was wisest and best
to bring into being the great science of mathematics and fix all
physical laws,—all in a moment of time, why should he consume
60,000,000 or 500,000,000 years in bringing man into existence?
Evolution is all out of harmony with God’s other methods of work.

Gravitation was complete from the first. No growth; no evolution. The
laws of light, heat, electricity, etc., remain unchanged. Light travels
with the same unvarying velocity, as when, 60,000 years ago, it started
from the distant star-cloud. Some estimate our universe to be 1,000,000
light years across. Yet in all these limitless reaches, the same
perfect and complete laws prevail, touching light, heat, electricity,
gravitation, etc. God makes no mistakes and no evolution is needed.
Does not this furnish a presumption that God could and did create man
complete and full grown with a wonderful body, and a soul in his own
image?

In this discussion, we have spoken of the “laws” of nature, after
common usage. But laws are only a record of God’s acts. An unchangeable
God makes unchangeable laws. There is a rigid fixity written over the
face of nature. Every law and principle is complete and perfect and
finished, and there is no room for evolution.

Matter did not create itself, nor evolute nor grow. It must have been
created instantaneously by the power of God, whether in a nebulous
condition or not. So enchanting is their theory, that many profess to
believe that not only were all species of animals and plants evolved
from a single germ, but that even matter itself was evolved out of
nothing. This theory of evolution as wide as the universe, as ponderous
as the stars, is supported only by the weak stork legs of wistful
possibility.



26. DESPERATE ARGUMENTS


Many arguments gravely given in support of evolution, reveal a great
poverty of facts and logic. An instantaneous photograph of an “infant,
three weeks old, supporting its own weight for over two minutes,” is
given by Romanes as a proof that man is descended from a simian
(ape-like) ancestor. As this same picture is widely copied in evolution
text books, they must have failed to get the picture of any other
infant performing a like feat. Just how this affords any convincing
proof that man is a monkey, we leave the reader to figure out. Our
attention is called to the way this child and another child, whose
picture is likewise generally copied, hold their feet (like monkeys
climbing trees) showing they are little monkeys. Though we fail to see
the force of this argument, it must be among their best from the
emphasis they give it. Prof. H. H. Newman, of Chicago University, a
leading evolutionist actually writes as follows, (Readings): “The
common cotton-tail rabbit raises its white tail when it runs. This is
interpreted [by whom, evolutionists or rabbits?] as a signal of danger
to other rabbits.”

The following absurd speculation, by a lecturer in the “University
Extension Course,” was printed in the Philadelphia Bulletin: “Evidence
that early man climbed trees with their feet lies in the way we wear
the heels of our shoes,—more at the outside. A baby can wiggle its big
toe without wiggling its other toes,—an indication that it once used
its big toe in climbing trees. We often dream of falling. Those who
fell out of the trees some 50,000 years ago and were killed, of course,
had no descendants (?) So those who fell and were not hurt, of course,
lived, and so we are never hurt in our dreams of falling”! While we
read these feeble arguments, which the newspapers would call piffle,
how can we escape the conviction that evolution is in desperate need of
argument? Imagine the Copernican theory relying on such piffle for
support. Is there a freak idea without a freak professor to support it?



27. TWENTY OBJECTIONS ADMITTED


Evolutionists themselves, even including Darwin, admit as many as 20
objections to his theory. Darwin states the first four and Prof. V. L.
Kellogg sums up the remaining 16 on pp. 247-52 of “Readings in
Evolution.” Among them are:—

1. There must have been innumerable transitional forms in the formation
of new species. No convincing evidence of these missing links exists.

2. Natural selection can not account for the instinct of animals such
as that of the honey bee, “which has practically anticipated the
discoveries of profound mathematicians.”

4. The offspring of such nearly related species as can be crossed are
sterile, showing that nature discourages and in no wise encourages the
formation of new species.

5. The changes resulting from the use and disuse of organs are not
inherited.

6. Since Darwinism eliminates design, it is only the exploded ancient
heathen doctrine of chance.

7. Variation is so slight as to be imperceptible, and, therefore,
cannot account for the “survival of the fittest.” If the same
progressive changes do not occur generally, if not universally, in the
numbers of the same species in the same period, no new species can
arise. Such general changes do not occur.

8. Natural selection could not make use of initial slight changes.
“What would be the advantage of the first few hairs of a mammal, or the
first steps toward feathers in a bird, when these creatures were
beginning to diverge from their reptilian ancestors?”

9. Even if Darwinism should explain the _survival_ of the fittest, it
does not explain the _arrival_ of the fittest, which is far more
important.

10. Darwin says, “I am convinced that natural selection has been the
most important but not the exclusive means of modification.” Many
scientists think it of very little importance, and that it is not true.

11. “The fluctuating variations of Darwinism are _quantitative_, or
plus and minus variations; whereas, the differences between species are
_qualitative_.” Growth and development in one species does not produce
a new species, which must be of a different kind. Miles Darden, of
Tenn., was 90 inches tall, and weighed 1000 pounds, but remained a
member of the human species, though he was as high and heavy as a
horse. So did the giant Posius, over 10 feet tall, who lived in the
days of Augustus.

12. “There is a growing skepticism on the part of biologists as to the
extreme fierceness of the struggle for existence and of the consequent
rigor of selection.” Overproduction and shortage of space and food
might sometime be a factor of importance, but has it been so in the
past? Has it affected the human race?

13. Darwin proposed the theory of gemmules. Prof. H. H. Newman says,
“This theory was not satisfactory even to Darwin and is now only of
historical interest.”

14. Darwin’s subsidiary theory of sexual selection has also been
rejected by scientists as worthless.

In view of these and other objections, is it any wonder that Darwin’s
theory has been so largely rejected by the scientific world?

And is it not amazing that self-styled “scientists” hold on to their
precious theory of evolution, as if these objections had no weight?
They can not save evolution even by rejecting Darwinism.



28. SCIENTISTS CONDEMN EVOLUTION


Dr. Etheridge, famous fossilologist of the British Museum, one of the
highest authorities in the world, said:—“Nine-tenths of the talk of
evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly
unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter
falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a
particle of evidence of the transmutation of species.” Is a man in that
position not a credible witness?

Prof. Beale, of King’s College, London, a distinguished physiologist,
said: “There is no evidence that man has descended from, or is, or was,
in any way specially related to, any other organism in nature, through
evolution, or by any other process. In support of all naturalistic
conjectures concerning man’s origin, there is not, at this time, a
_shadow of scientific evidence_.”

Prof. Virchow, of Berlin, a naturalist of world wide fame, said: “The
attempt to find the transition from the animal to man has ended in
total failure. The middle link has not been found and never will be.
Evolution is all nonsense. It can not be proved by science that man
descended from the ape or from any other animal.”

Prof. Fleishman, of Erlangen, who once accepted Darwinism, but after
further investigation repudiated it, said: “The Darwinian theory of
descent has not a single fact to confirm it, in the realm of nature. It
is not the result of scientific research, but is purely the product of
the imagination.”

Prof. Agassiz, one of the greatest scientists of any age, said: “The
theory [of the transmutation of species] is a scientific mistake,
untrue in its facts, unscientific in its method, and mischievous in its
tendency.... There is not a fact known to science, tending to show that
a single kind has ever been transmuted into any other.”

Dr. W. H. Thompson, former president of N. Y. Academy of Medicine,
said: “The Darwinian theory is now rejected by the majority of
biologists, as absurdly inadequate. It is absurd to rank man among the
animals. His so called fellow animals, the primates—gorilla, orang and
chimpanzee—can do nothing truly human.”

Sir William Dawson, an eminent geologist, of Canada, said: “The record
of the rocks is decidedly against evolutionists, especially in the
abrupt appearance of new forms under specific types, and without
apparent predecessors.... Paleontology furnishes no evidence as to the
actual transformation of one species into another. No such case is
certainly known. Nothing is known about the origin of man except what
is told in Scripture.”

The foremost evolutionists, Spencer, Huxley and Romanes, before their
death, repudiated Darwinism. Haeckel alone supported the theory and
that by forged evidence.

Dr. St. George Mivert, late professor of biology in the University
College of Kensington, calls Darwinism a “puerile hypothesis.”

Dr. James Orr, of Edinburg University, says: “The greatest scientists
and theologians of Europe are now pronouncing Darwinism to be
absolutely dead.”

Dr. Traas, a famous palaeontologist, concludes: “The idea that mankind
is descended from any simian species whatever, is certainly the most
foolish ever put forth by a man writing on the history of man.” Does
this apply to H. G. Wells?

Dr. N. S. Shaler, professor of Geol., in Harvard University, said: “It
is not yet proved that a single species of the two or three millions,
now inhabiting the earth had been established solely or mainly, by the
operation of natural selection.”

Prof. Haeckel, a most extreme evolutionist, confesses: “Most modern
investigators of science have come to the conclusion that the doctrine
of evolution, and particularly Darwinism, is an error, and can not be
maintained.”

Prof. Huxley, said that evolution is “not proved and not provable.”

Sir Charles Bell, Prof, of the University College of London, says:
“Everything declares the species to have their origin in a distinct
creation, not in a gradual variation from some original type.”

These testimonies of scientists of the first rank are a part of a large
number. Many of them and many more, are given in Prof. Townsend’s
“Collapse of Evolution,” McCann’s “God or Gorilla,” Philip Mauro’s
“Evolution At the Bar,” and other anti-evolution books. Alfred McCann,
in his great work, “God or Gorilla,” mentions 20 of the most prominent
scholars, who do not accept Darwinism. Yet they say, “All scholars
accept evolution”!!

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Part Two
Evidence Answered

29. PALEONTOLOGY


1. The Pithecanthropus, which is a high sounding name for an ape-man
(from Grk. pithekos, ape, and anthropos, man) was found by Dr. Dubois,
an ardent evolutionist, in 1892, in Trinil in the island of Java. It
lived, it is said, 750,000 years ago. He found, buried in the
Pleistocene beds, 40 feet below the surface in the sand, _the upper
portion of a skull, a tooth and a thigh bone_. “It was fortunate,” says
Dr. Chapin, “that the most distinctive portions of the human (sic)
frame should have been preserved, because from these specimens, we are
able to reconstruct (?) the being, and to say with assurance (!) that
his walk was erect in manlike posture, that he had mental power
considerably above the ape, (it will not do to be too definite) and his
powers of speech were somewhat limited. (A string of guesses wholly
unwarranted.) This man stood half way between the anthropoid and the
existing men.”—Social Evolution, p. 61.

A high authority declares,—“Shortly after this discovery, 24 of the
most eminent scientists of Europe met. Ten said that the bones belonged
to an ape; 7, to a man; and 7 (less than one-third) said they were a
missing link.” Some of the most eminent scientists say that some of the
bones belong to a man, and some to an ape, baboon, or monkey. The great
Prof. Virchow says: “There is no evidence at all that these bones were
parts of the same creature.” But such adverse opinions do not weigh
much with modern evolutionists determined to win at all hazards.

The small section of the brain pan, weighing but a few ounces, was
found about 50 feet from the thigh bone. One tooth was found 3 feet
from the fragment of skull, and one near the thigh bone, _50 feet
away_. Since the small section of the brain pan belonged to a
chimpanzee, and the thigh bone is that of a man, is it likely that
these scattered bones belonged to the same creature? Even if they did,
is it likely that these bones would be preserved in the sand 750,000
years, or even 375,000 years according to a later estimate? We know
that petrified skeletons, encased in rock, may be millions of years
old, but where are the unpetrified skeletons of men who lived even
5,000 years ago? If unpetrified skeletons could last 750,000 years,
there would be millions of them. Without a doubt, this skull of a
chimpanzee, and femur of a man, belong to a modern beast and a modern
man, buried by floods or earthquakes, or some other convulsion of
nature, or by slow accumulations. It is said that the Jerusalem of
Christ’s day is buried 20 feet under the surface, by the quiet
accretions of the dust of 1900 years. Rome also has been covered up in
recent centuries. It would be easy for 40 feet of sand to accumulate
over the bones of a modern man or chimpanzee in a valley, in a few
centuries, if 20 feet of dust accumulated on the mountain city of
Jerusalem in 1900 years.

Elsewhere we have shown that an ape-man with a cranium of two-thirds
normal capacity must have lived at least 20,000,000 years ago,—one
third the period of animal existence; or even 166,666,666 years ago, if
we accept a later claim that life has existed 500,000,000 years. It is
absolutely impossible that a normal creature of the alleged mental
capacity could have lived 750,000 years ago, much less 375,000,
according to a later estimate cutting in two the first one. But the
quickest way to disprove these wild guesses is to check them up by a
mathematical test. If these bones are normal, such an ape-man could not
have lived at the time assigned. If they are not normal, they prove
nothing whatever for evolution. They can be duplicated now.

We are asked to believe that these scattered bones,—some the bones of a
modern brute, some the bones of a modern man—were preserved in the sand
750,000 years and belonged to an ancestor of the human race, while of
the millions of his generation and of the generations following for
many thousands of years, we have not a trace! We are asked upon such a
flimsy pretext to accept a theory, unsupported by a single compelling
argument, and irreconcilable with numerous facts,—a theory which takes
away man’s hope of immortality, destroys faith in God and his inspired
word, and in the Christian religion itself. There is a limit. How much
more truthful and majestic is Gen. 1:27: “And God created man in his
own image, in the image of God created he him.”

One distinguished evolutionist has said, “We might as well be made out
of monkey as out of mud. It is mud or monkey.” Most of us would retort,
“I would rather be created a human being out of the filthiest mud by
Almighty God than owe my existence to the brainiest monkey that ever
lived.” Please note, “The Lord God formed man of the _dust_ of the
ground,” not _mud_. The evolutionists are as wild in their exegesis as
in their guesses.

2. The Heidelberg Jaw. The second relic, in the order of time, relied
upon by the evolutionists to prove the brute origin of man, is a “human
jaw of great antiquity, discovered in the _sands_ of the Mauer River,
near Heidelberg.” Hence, it is called the Mauer jaw, or the Heidelberg
Jaw, or Heidelberg man, or the high sounding Latin name of Homo
Heidelbergensis. It needs all the names that can be given to it, to
elevate it to the dignity of an ancestor. “This jaw was found in
undisturbed stratified _sand_, (sand again) at the depth of about 69
feet from the summit of the deposit.” Dr. Schoetensack, the discoverer,
says, “Had the teeth been absent, it would have been impossible to
diagnose it as human.”

They say it is 700,000 years old, preserved in sand. A later estimate
says 375,000 years. (Any wild guess will do.) It resembles the jaw of
an ape, and the tooth of a man. Was it not likely the abnormal jaw of a
modern man, in historic time swept into the sands by the freshets and
floods of a few centuries? It is only fair to say that many scientists
of the evolutionary school, do not believe the Heidelberg man an
ancestor of our race. “These remains,” says one, “show no trace of
being intermediate between man and the anthropoid ape.” Some claim it a
connecting link. Others deny it. Some say the find is of the utmost
value; others say it is worthless. All are guesses, wild guesses at
that. They hopefully reach out their hands in the night, and gather
nothing but handfuls of darkness.

Since a modern Eskimo skull has been shown by a distinguished scientist
to have the same appearance and peculiarities as the Heidelberg jaw, it
is easy to believe that this jaw can be duplicated in many graveyards.
Greater abnormalities, in great numbers, can be found in the skeletons
of modern man. Without doubt, this jaw belongs to modern man, and has
no evidential value at all in favor of evolution.

We count these relics normal, in our arguments, because evolutionists
do. If they are not normal, they are the remains of modern man and
brutes and their whole argument falls to the ground.

3. The Piltdown Man (or Fake). The next fragments of bones, in
chronological order, upon which evolutionists rely to prove their
impossible theory, has been called the Piltdown man. It has been more
truthfully called the Piltdown fake. Dr. Chapin gravely tells us
(Social Evolution, p. 67): “During the years 1912, a series of
fragments of a human skull and a jaw bone were found associated with
eolithic implements and the bones of extinct mammals in Pleistocene
deposits on a plateau, 80 feet above the river bed, at Piltdown,
Fletching, Sussex, Eng.....The remains were of great importance. The
discoverers regard this relic as a specimen of a distinct genus of the
human species and it has been called Eoanthropus Dawsoni. This extinct
man lived in Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago.” We have passed
over 200,000 to 300,000 years since the Heidelberg man, that have not
yielded a scrap of bone, though according to the theory, countless
millions of ape-men must have lived in various stages of development,
in that great stretch of time. Why were not some of them preserved?
Simply because there were no ape-men. There are countless relics of
apes, but none of ape-men. Even Wells says: “At a great open-air camp
at Solutre, where they seem to have had annual gatherings for many
centuries, it is estimated there are the bones of 100,000 horses.”
Would we not expect as many bones of ape-men? While Wells says the
bones of 100,000 horses were found in a single locality, Dr. Ales
Hrdlicka says that the bones of 200,000 prehistoric horses were found
in another place. Why should we not find, for the same reason, the
bones of millions of ape-men and ape-women in 750,000 years? Instead of
millions we have the alleged fragments of 4, all of which are of a very
doubtful character.

The bones of this precious Piltdown find consisted, at first, of a
_piece of the jaw bone, another small piece of bone from the skull_,
and a canine tooth, which the zealous evolutionists located in the
lower right jaw, when it belonged in the upper left; later, two molar
teeth and two nasal bones,—scarcely a double hand full in all. An
ape-man was “reconstructed” made to look like an ape-man, according to
the fancy of the artist. The artist can create an ape-man, even if God
could not create a real man! But scientists said the teeth did not
belong to the same skull, and the jaw could not be associated with the
same skull. Ales Hrdlicka says, “The jaw and the tooth belong to a
fossil chimpanzee.” Conscientious scientists said that the pieces of
the jaw and skull could not belong to the same individual. They
constructed a scarecrow from the bones of an ape and of a man, and
offer this, without the batting of an eye, as a scientific proof of the
antiquity of man. The great anthropologist of world-wide reputation,
Prof. Virchow, said: “In vain have Darwin’s adherents sought for
connecting links which should connect man with the monkey. _Not a
single one has been found_. This so-called pro-anthropus, which is
supposed to represent this connecting link, has not appeared. No true
scientist claims to have seen him.” Sir Ray Lancaster, writing to H. G.
Wells, concerning the Piltdown find, says, “We are stumped and
baffled.” Yet in spite of all this, nearly 1,000,000 persons annually
pass through the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and
view the “reconstruction” according to the artist’s fancy, of the
pithecanthropus, the Heidelberg man, the Piltdown man, and the
Neanderthal man, the “ancestors of the human race;” and the multitude
of high school students and teachers, as well as the general public,
are not told how dubious and unscientific the representation is.

The brain capacity of the Piltdown individual (man or ape) is set down
by his discoverers at 1070 c.c., which is 28 2/3% short of the normal
skull capacity, 1500 c.c. Therefore, he must have lived 17,200,000
years ago, if we accept the estimate of 60,000,000 years since life
began; or 143,333,333 years ago, if we accept the later guess of
500,000,000 years. It could not have lived near the time assigned. In
short, no guess of the origin of man that differs materially from the
time assigned in the word of God, can be harmonized with the facts.

4. The Neanderthal Man. The next slender prop is the Neanderthal man,
claimed to be 40,000 to 50,000 years old, although we are told that
that is very uncertain.

Dr. Chapin says, “The first important discovery of the existence of an
early example of mankind differing markedly from any living (?) and of
a decidedly lower type, was made in 1857, when a part of a skull was
found in a cave near Dusseldorf, Germany. The bones consisted of the
upper portion of a cranium, remarkable for its flat retreating curve,
the upper arm and thigh bones, a collar bone, and rib fragments.” From
these fragments, an ape-man has been created (by the artist), about 5
ft. 3 in. high, strong, fierce in look, and having other
characteristics created by the artist.

Dr. Osborn assigns to the Neanderthal skull a capacity of 1408 c.c.,
which would indicate that he lived 3,680,000 years ago, if life began
60,000,000 years ago; or 30,666,666 years ago, if life began
500,000,000 years ago.

From the first, many naturalists claimed that these bones belonged to
an abnormal specimen of humanity. They can be easily duplicated.
Naturalists have maintained many divergent opinions: an idiot, an early
German, a Cossack, a European of various other nationalities, a
Mongolian, a primitive ape-man, an ancestor of modern man, and an
impossible ancestor of man. Not very reliable evidence to support the
stupendous scheme of evolution!

Now these four finds are the weak props supporting the desperate claim
of the brute origin of man. Dr. Chapin says (Social Evolution, p. 68):
“Other skulls and bone parts of prehistoric man have been found, and
preserved in museums, but the specimens described (the four above
mentioned) are sufficient to illustrate _the type of evidence_ they
constitute.” The later finds measuring close to normal capacity,
doubtless are the bones of the descendants of Adam. Even by the
admission of this text-book author, the evidence from other remains is
no more convincing than that from these four types. Some evolutionists
say that the pithecanthropus, the Heidelberg man, the Piltdown man, and
the Neanderthal man, form an unbroken line of descent from the ape,
each in turn becoming less like the ape, and more like man. Others
claim that the pithecanthropus was the end of a special branch of the
apes; the Heidelberg man the last of another extinct branch; the
Piltdown man and the Neanderthal man, likewise the last of other
extinct species. In this case, all four finds have no evidential value
whatever. All these confusing guesses from evidence so scant and
uncertain, stamp evolution a “science falsely so called.”

If these branches, species, or races of ape-like creatures ended, as
claimed, in the age to which these alleged remains belonged, they could
not have been the ancestors of the human race, and these alleged links
were not links at all. Some evolutionists say that the Neanderthal race
became extinct 25,000 years ago. If so, they were not our ancestors. We
are curious to know what caused the extinction of all these races.
Prof. R. S. Lull confesses, “However we account for it, the fact
remains that ancient men are _rare_.” Most unbiased students would say
such men never existed. The entire absence of human remains during the
750,000 years and more is a demonstration against the brute origin of
man, and a proof of special creation.

It will be remembered that there is no complete skeleton among all the
remains, nor enough parts to make one altogether, nor to make any large
part of a skeleton,—not even an entire skull. What bones are found are
not joined together, and some of them scattered so widely apart, that
no one can be certain they belong to the same individual. Some of the
bones belong to an ape, and some to man,—doubtless modern man. Ardent
evolutionists, with a zeal worthy of a better cause, have taken a
fractional bone of a man, and a bone of an ape, and fashioned a
composite being, and called it an ape-man, and their ancestor.

Every one of these finds is disputed by scientists, and even by
evolutionists. And all these doubtful relics would not fill a small
market basket. Yet some are ready to say that evolution is no longer a
guess or a theory, but a proven fact. Text books like Chapin’s Social
Evolution are placed in the hands of pupils giving only the arguments
in favor, and the student, even if disposed to question this flimsy and
unsupported theory, is helpless in the hands of an adroit professor.
Dr. Gruenberg’s high school text book teaches that man is descended
from the pithecanthropus, the Heidelberg, the Piltdown and the
Neanderthal man, without the slightest intimation that such descent is
at all disputed or questioned. What right has anyone to teach this
false and unproved theory as the truth?



30. CONFESSED COLLAPSE OF “PROOF”


The claim that the pithecanthropus, the Heidelberg man, the Piltdown
man, and the Neanderthal man, were the ancestors of man, collapses
under the admissions of evolutionists themselves. The eminent Wassman
says: “There are numerous fossils of apes, the remains of which are
buried in the various strata from the lower Eocene to the close of the
alluvial epoch, but _not one connecting link_ has been found between
their hypothetical ancestral forms and man at the present time. The
whole hypothetical pedigree of man is _not supported by a single fossil
genus or a single fossil species_” (all italics ours). Darwin says:
“When we descend to details, _we can prove that not one species has
changed_.” How, then, can man be descended from the brute?

Even H. G. Wells, who seems ready to endorse the most extravagant
views, says (Outline of History, p. 69), “We can not say that it (the
pithecanthropus) is a direct human ancestor.” On p. 116, is a “Diagram
of the Relationship of Human Races,” showing that neither the
pithecanthropus, the Heidelberg man, the Piltdown man, nor the
Neanderthal man, could have been an ancestor of the human race, because
each were the last of their species, and therefore had no descendants.

Dr. Keith, a London evolutionist, says that the Piltdown man is not an
ancestor of man, much less an intermediate between the Heidelberg man
and the Neanderthal man. Sir Ray Lancaster confesses he is “baffled and
stumped” as to the Piltdown man. Dr. Keith says the “Neanderthal man
was not quite of our species.”

Dr. Osborn says that the Heidelberg man “shows no trace of being
intermediate between man and the anthropoid ape.” Again, speaking of
the teeth of the St. Brelade man, Dr. Osborn says, “This special
feature alone would exclude the Neanderthals from the ancestry of the
higher races.”

Prof. R. S. Lull says, “Certain authorities have tried to prove that
the pithecanthropus is nothing but a large gibbon, but the weight of
authority considers it prehuman, though not in the line of direct
development in humanity.”

Prof. Cope, a distinguished anatomist, says, “The femur [of the
pithecanthropus] is that of a man, it is in no sense a connecting
link.”

In his “Men of the Old Stone Age,” Dr. Osborn puts the pithecanthropus,
the Heidelberg man, the Piltdown man, and the Neanderthal man, on limbs
which _terminate abruptly as extinct races_. They can, in no sense,
then, be the ancestors of man, or connecting links. Why, then, do they
cling so desperately to these alleged proofs, when they admit they have
no evidential value? Only sheer desperation, just as a drowning man
will clutch a straw.

Dr. W. E. Orchard says: “The remains bearing on this issue, which have
been found are very few, and their _significance is hotly disputed by
scientists themselves,—both their age, and whether they are human or
animal, or mere abnormalities_.”

Since these four creatures (of the evolutionists) can not be the
ancestors of the human race, where are their descendants? Evolutionists
are obliged to say they were the last of their kind. Strange! But there
is no other way of escape.

Prof. Bronco, of the Geological and Palaeontological Institute of
Berlin University, says, “_Man appeared suddenly in the Quaternary
period. Palaeontology tells us nothing on the subject,—it knows nothing
of the ancestors of man_.”

As fossils must be imbedded in rock, there is not a single fossil of an
ape-man in the world.



31. PICTURES IN CAVERNS


To bolster up the hypothesis, that some of the scraps of bones belonged
to ape-men; who lived about 50,000 years ago, we are told that, in many
caverns there are paintings of animals, some of which are extinct,
proving that the artists were ape-men of advancing intellect, living in
that day. These drawings are rude, and inexact, and the resemblance to
extinct animals rather fanciful. If the writer were to try to draw a
picture of a horse on the stone walls of a dark cavern, with no light,
it would be just as likely to resemble an extinct animal, or possibly
an animal that never did live and never will. Many of the paintings are
found in the depths of unlit caverns, often difficult of access. How
could they paint any picture in the dark, when even fire was unknown,
and the torch and lamp-wick had not yet been invented? And how could
they make a ladder, or erect scaffolding of any sort in that rude age,
before there were inventions of any kind? Yet they tell us that the
frescoes on the ceiling of the dark cavern of Altamira, Spain, were
made 25,000 to 50,000 years ago, when fire was unknown, and they ask us
to believe that several colors are used, brown, red, black, yellow, and
white; and that these drawings and colors have remained undisturbed and
unchanged through these long ages. Is it easier to believe this, than
to believe that these drawings were made by modern man, using modern
inventions? A theory left to such support, must be poverty-stricken in
argument indeed.



32. VESTIGIAL ORGANS


The claim is made that the so-called rudimentary organs in the human
body such as the appendix, are the remnants of more complete organs
inherited from our animal ancestors. It is a strange argument that a
once complete and useful organ in our alleged animal ancestors, when it
becomes atrophied in man, causes such an improvement and advance, as to
cause man to survive, when his ancestors with more perfect organs
became extinct. Man with less perfect organs became the dominant
species. If the perfect organ were better than the rudimentary organ,
how can man be the “survival of the fittest”? If rudimentary organs are
a proof of descent from animals with more extensive, if not more
perfect, organs, then both man and monkeys must be descended from the
rat, which has the longest proportionate appendix of all. If unused
muscles speak of our ancestry, the horse has the strongest claim to be
our ancestor.

But many organs, such as “the thyroid gland, the thymus gland, and the
pineal gland,” formerly classified as rudimentary organs, are found to
be very useful and necessary.

Physicians have found the appendix very useful in preventing
constipation, which its removal usually increases. If we only knew
enough, we would, no doubt, discover a beneficial use for all the
so-called vestigial organs. Our ignorance is no argument against the
wisdom of their creation. The claim that human hair is vestigial is
spoiled by the fact that there is none on the back where most abundant
on simians.



33. SEROLOGY, OR BLOOD TESTS


They tell us that the blood of a dog injected into the veins of a
horse, will kill the horse, whereas the blood of a man injected into
the veins of an ape results in very feeble reaction, which proves that
the dog and the horse, they say, are not related by blood, while the
man and the ape are so related. But a distinguished authority says,
“The blood of the dog is poisonous to other animals, whilst, on the
other hand, the blood and the blood serum of the _sheep, goat_ and
_horse_, have generally little effect on other animals _and on man_. It
is for this reason that these animals and particularly the horse, are
used in preparation of the serums employed in medicines.”

It is also stated as a fact that mare’s milk more nearly resembles
human milk than that of any other animal save the ass, a nearly related
species—to the mare, let us hope, not to us. Because of this
resemblance, it is reported by Dr. Hutchinson that, “One of the large
dairy companies in England now keeps a stock of milch asses for the
purpose of supplying asses’ milk for delicate human babes.”

These well-known facts would prove the horse and the ass a nearer
relative than the ape, since serums are not made from the blood of the
ape. We prefer the innocent sheep to the ape as our near relative, and
will allow the evolutionists to claim the goat.

Dr. W. W. Keen, Prof. Emeritus of Jefferson College, Phila., in his
book, “I believe in God and in Evolution,” on p. 48 says, “Here again
you perceive such identity of function, that the thyroid gland of
animals, when given as a remedy to man, performs precisely the same
function as the human thyroid. Moreover, it is not the thyroid gland
from the anthropoid apes that is used as a remedy but that from the
more lowly sheep.” Again the force of Dr. Keen’s argument goes to
prove, so far as it has any weight, that we have a nearer kinship to
the sheep than the ape. Children are nourished by the milk of the cow,
the ass and the goat, not of the ape. Vaccine matter is taken from the
cow and serums from the horse, not from any species of monkey, to which
we do not seem to be related at all.

The conclusions of the blood tests are unreliable and uncertain. W. B.
Scott, an expert evolutionist, says, “It must not be supposed that
there is any exact mathematical ratio between the degrees of
relationship indicated by the blood tests, and those which are shown by
anatomical and palaeontological evidence.... It could hardly be
maintained that an ostrich and a parrot are more nearly allied than a
wolf and a hyena, and yet that would be the inference from the blood
tests.”

Prof. Rossle, in 1905, according to McCann, presented evidence to show
that the blood reaction does not in any manner indicate how closely any
two animals are related; and that evidence based on resemblance of
blood is not trustworthy in support of a common relationship. In many
cases, transfusions of the human blood into apes have positive
reactions. We do not make pets of the ape, baboon or chimpanzee, but of
the dog whose traits are far more nearly human. If any brute ancestor
is possible, have not the evolutionists guessed the wrong animal?



34. EMBRYOLOGY


Embryology, or the Recapitulation Theory, is the last, and perhaps the
least important of the claims advanced in favor of evolution. It is
claimed that the whole history of evolution is briefly repeated in the
early stages of embryonic life. W. B. Scott, in the “Theory of
Evolution,” says, “Thirty years ago, the recapitulation theory was well
nigh universally accepted. Nowadays it is very seriously questioned,
and by some high authorities is altogether denied.”

It is hard to see why the history of the species should be repeated by
the embryo. It is difficult to crowd the history of ages into a few
days or weeks. It must be enormously abbreviated. It is a physical
impossibility. Changes caused by many environments must take place in
the same environment, contradicting the theory of evolution. So many
exceptions must be made that there can be no universal law. Such
general similarity as we find in embryonic life, may be accounted for,
on the ground that the Creator used one general plan with unlimited
variation, never repeating himself so as to make two faces or two
leaves or two grains of sand exactly alike.

“Embryology is an ancient manuscript with many of the sheets lost,
others displaced, and with spurious passages interpolated by a later
hand.” It is hard to construct a syllogism, showing the force of the
argument from Embryology. Try it.

Various other evolution arguments are answered in PART ONE, and
completely refuted by UP-TO-DATE SCIENTIFIC FACTS. No one has yet noted
an error, nor answered an argument. If all students, teachers,
ministers, etc., had this book (pp. 116-7), evolutionists could no
longer conceal the “unanswerable arguments,” nor answer them by
ridicule or abuse.



Part Three
The Soul

35. THE ORIGIN OF THE SOUL


Evolution fails to account for the origin of the body of man. Still
more emphatically, does it fail to account for the origin of the soul,
or spiritual part of man. This is part of the stupendous task of
evolution. Its advocates give it little or no attention. We are not
surprised. If they _could_ show the evolution of the human body
_probable_ or even _possible_, they can never account for the origin of
the soul, save by creation of Almighty God. We can not release
evolutionists upon the plea that they cannot account for the faculties
and spiritual endowments of man. This is a confession of complete
failure. Though invisible to the eye or the microscope, they are
positive realities. They can not be dismissed with a wave of the hand
or a gesture of contempt. We have a right to demand an explanation for
every phenomenon connected with the body or soul of man. The task may
be heavy, and even impossible, yet every hypothesis must bear every
test or confess failure. They have undertaken to propose a scheme that
will account for the origin of man, as he is, soul and body, and if
they fail, the hypothesis fails.

How do we account for the existence of each individual soul? It can not
be the product of the arrangement of the material of the brain, as the
materialists do vainly teach. It can not be the product of evolution,
nor a growth from the father or mother. The soul is not transmitted to
be modified or changed. It is indivisible. The soul of the child is not
a part of the soul of either parent. The parents suffer no mental loss
from the new soul. It must be created before it can grow. God creates
each soul without doubt, and so God created the souls of Adam and Eve.
If creation is possible now, it was possible at the beginning of the
race. If God creates the soul now, analogy teaches strongly the
creation of the souls of Adam and Eve. If evolution be true, there was
no creation in the past, and is none now. This is contradicted by the
facts every day and every hour.



36. PERSONALITY


An evolutionist writes: “We do not undertake to account for
personality.” We reply, “That is a part of your problem. You have
undertaken to solve the riddle of the universe by excluding all
evidence of an existing and active God, and we can not release you
because a feature of the problem may be unusually difficult or
embarrassing, or even fatal to your theory. It is a fight to the death
in the interest of truth; and we purpose to use every weapon of science
against a theory so unscientific, so improbable, so far reaching, and
so baneful in its effects. It takes faith, hope and comfort from the
heart of the Christian, destroys belief in God, and sends multitudes to
the lost world.”

Personality is consciousness of individuality. When did personality
begin? When did any members of the species become conscious of
personality? When did they begin to realize and to say in thought, “I
am a living being.” What animals are conscious of personality? Any of
our cousins of the monkey tribe? Is the horse conscious of personality,
or the ox, the cat or the dog? If so, does the skunk have personality,
the mouse, the flea, the worm, the tadpole, the microscopic animal? If
so, do our other cousins have personality,—the trees, the vines, the
flowers, the thorn and the brier, the cactus and the thistle, and the
microscopic disease germs? If so, when did personality begin? With the
first primordial germ? If so, were there two personalities when the
germ split in two, and became two, animal and plant? You can not split
a man up into two parts with a personality to each part. Personality is
indivisible. It is a consciousness of that indivisibility. If
personality began anywhere along the line, where, when, and how did it
originate? Was it spontaneous, or by chance, or was it God-given?
Beyond all question, it was the gift of an all-wise and all-powerful
Creator, and in no sense the product of evolution. God made man a
living soul.

But if no plant or animal ever had personality, when did man first
become conscious of his individuality? There is no evidence, of course,
but the evolutionist must produce it, or admit failure. The
evolutionist is short on evidence but long on guesses that miss the
mark.

If all animals and plants came from one germ, why do animals have the
senses, sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing, while plants are
utterly devoid of them? They had a nearly equal chance in the race. Why
the great difference?



37. INTELLECT, EMOTIONS AND WILL


The activity and energy of the soul are shown in the intellect, the
emotions and the will. What evidence of these do we find in the animal
world? Do we find intellect in the lobster, emotions in a worm, or will
in an oyster? Whence came these elements of spiritual strength? If
developed by evolution, where, when, and how?

Have the most advanced species of animals an intellect? Do they have
the emotions of love, hate, envy, pity, remorse or sympathy? Has a worm
envy, a flea hate, a cat pity a hog remorse, or a horse sympathy? If
these existed in so-called pre-historic man, when, where, and how did
they begin? No one can answer, because there is not a trace of proof
that they ever existed.

Will natural selection explain the development of the mental faculties?
Was art developed because those who lacked it perished? Do we account
for the musical faculty, because those who could not sing perished?
Some still live who ought to be dead! Do we account for humor because
they perished who could not crack a joke? Will all eventually perish
but the Irish, who will survive by their wit? Is anything mentioned in
science quite so ridiculous as natural selection?

Not an animal has a trace of wit, or humor, or pathos. Not an animal
has ever laughed, or spoken, or sung. The silence of the ages disproves
evolution.



38. ABSTRACT REASON


When did reason begin? Do we find it in any species of plant or animal
life, save man? The highest order of animals can not reason enough to
start a fire or replenish one. A dog, or a cat, or even a monkey, will
enjoy the warmth from a fire but will not replenish it, although they
may have seen it done many times. Animals may be taught many
interesting tricks; many can imitate well. But they do not have the
power of reflection or abstract reason. They live for the present. They
have no plans for tomorrow,—-no purpose in life. They can not come to
new conclusions. They can not add or subtract, multiply or divide. They
can not even count. Some animals can solve very intricate problems by
instinct, but instinct is the intelligence of God, and never could have
come by evolution.

If reason came not from God, but from evolution, should we not expect
it well developed in evolutionary man, since for the last 3,000,000
years he must have been 95 to 100 per cent, normal. If we grant the
estimate of 500,000,000 years, he would have been 99.4% normal for the
last 3,000,000 years. Would we not expect in that time a world of
inventions and discoveries, even surpassing those of the last 100
years? The Chinese claim a multitude of inventions and a race so nearly
normal as ape-men, ought to have invented language, writing, printing,
the telegraph, phonograph, the wireless, the radio, television, and
even greater wonders than in our age.

There is no trace of intelligence in man in all the 3,000,000 years,
prior to Adam.

We should have many works excelling Homer’s Iliad, Vergil’s Aeneid, and
Milton’s Paradise Lost. We have no trace of a road, or a bridge, or a
monument, like the pyramids. That no race of intelligent creatures ever
lived prior to Adam is proven by lack of affirmative evidence. If it be
true, as Romanes declared, that the power of abstract reason in all the
species was only equal to that of a child 15 months old, then each
species would possess less than one millionth of that.



39. CONSCIENCE


If the origin of the mental faculties can not be accounted for by
evolution, much less can the moral faculty, the religious nature and
spirituality be accounted for.

The most confirmed evolutionist will not claim that the tree or the
vine or the rose, or perhaps any animal, has a conscience. If, however,
conscience is a growth or development, why should it not exist in some
measure in both the animal and the vegetable kingdoms? Has any brute
any idea of right or wrong? Has a hog any idea of right or wrong, of
justice or injustice? What animal has ever shown regret for a wrong, or
approval of right in others? If conscience is a development within the
reach of every species, many of the million or more, no doubt, would
have shown some conscience long ago.

But if man developed conscience, why have not our near relatives of the
monkey family developed a conscience? They had the same chance as man.
Why should man have a conscience, and monkeys none?

Why is there no trace of conscience in the animal or vegetable kingdom?
Because it is the gift of God.

What sign of regret, repentance, or remorse, do we find in the cat or
the dog, the rat or the hog? If a bull gores a sheep to death, does he
express regret? Is a horse sorry if he crushes to death a child or a
chicken under his hoof? Can any animal be sorry for stealing food from
another? Will it take any steps to undo the wrong?

Man, according to evolution, is a creature of environment. He is a
victim of brute impulse. He has no conscience, no free will, he can
commit no crime. Killing is not murder. It is not sin. Man can not be
responsible. Without conscience, a victim of circumstances, rushed on
into crime, sin, and injustice, responsible to no God!

The heart sickens at the brightest picture evolution can paint. The
difficulty of showing the evolution of the body is insuperable, but the
evolution of the soul, with all its mental, moral and spiritual
equipment, is an absolute impossibility. Small wonder that
evolutionists are unwilling to discuss the origin of the soul.



40. SPIRITUALITY


Does any plant or animal worship God? How much theology does a cow
know? What does the horse think about God? What animal lives with an
anxious desire to please God? How many are desirous of obeying God? How
many species trust Him? How many love Him? How many pray to Him? How
many praise Him for his goodness? Evidently no animal knows anything
about God, or ever thinks of worshiping Him.

Man alone worships God. When did he begin? The idea of God seems to be
in the hearts of all except the dupes of evolution, and the Bolshevists
of Russia. The great problem to explain is how the worship of God
began, and why man alone now worships Him.

Personality, reason, intellect, emotions, will, conscience,
spirituality, and all the faculties and equipment of the soul, are
naturally and easily explained upon the basis of creation, but
evolution can not account for them at all.

About 2,000,000 years ago, we are told, man and the monkey family were
children of the same parents. These children headed species with an
even start. Yet man alone developed personality, consciousness,
intelligence, and all the equipment of the soul; all the others
remained stationary. This is incredible. It is inconsistent with
mathematical probability. Is it likely that one species and one alone
out of a million, with similar environments, would reach these high
mental and spiritual attainments? No! “God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him,”-Gen. 1:27. This declaration
explains all the difficulties which are insuperable to the
evolutionist.

“In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him.”
This likeness was not a physical likeness as a learned (?) university
professor asserted, but a likeness in _knowledge, righteousness and
holiness_. No animal is made in the image of God. There is not the
trace of a soul in all animal creation. How could the soul of man
develop from nothing?

God is still creating new creatures in Christ Jesus, in righteousness
and true holiness, which can not come by evolution, for sinful
creatures can only grow in sinfulness, until the creative power of God
makes them new creatures, as the following study in Eugenics will show:
Elizabeth Tuttle, the grandmother of Jonathan Edwards, the eminent
scholar and divine, was, according to H. E. Walter, a “woman of great
beauty, of tall and commanding appearance, striking carriage, of
strong, extreme intellectual vigor, and mental grasp akin to rapacity,
but _with an extraordinary deficiency in moral sense. She was divorced
from her husband on the ground of adultery and other_ IMMORALITIES. The
evil trait was in the blood, for one of her sisters murdered her own
son, and a brother murdered his own sister, As Richard Edwards, his
grandfather, had 5 sons and 1 daughter, by a second wife, but none of
their numerous progeny rose above mediocrity, and their descendants
gained no abiding reputation, Jonathan Edwards must have owed his
remarkable mental qualities largely to his grandmother rather than his
grandfather. He was evidently a new creation in Christ Jesus and was
cured by grace of all inherited immoralities, so that he became the
ancestor of one of the most remarkable families in the history of the
world, as follows:—

“Jonathan Edwards was born in 1703. He was strong in character,
mentally vigorous and fearlessly loyal to duty. In 1900, of the
descendants of Jonathan Edwards, 1394 had been located and the
following information in regard to them had been gathered: College
presidents, 13; college professors, 65; doctors, 60; clergymen,
missionaries, etc., 100; officers in the army and navy, 75; eminent
authors and writers, 60; lawyers, over 100; judges, 30; holders of
public offices, one being vice-president of the United States, 80;
United States senators, 3; managers of railroads, banks, insurance
companies, etc., 15; college graduates, 295; several were governors and
holders of important state offices.”

The claim is also made that “almost if not every department of social
progress and of public weal has felt the impulse of this healthy and
long-lived family.”

“The ‘Jukes’ family was founded by a shiftless fisherman born in New
York in 1720, Since that time the family has numbered 1200 persons. The
following facts are quoted from the _records_: Convicted criminals,
130; habitual thieves, 60; murderers, 7; wrecked by diseases of
wickedness, 440; immoral women, fully one-half; professional paupers,
310; trades learned by twenty, ten of these learned the trade in
prison.

“How much of this expense to the state was due to bad blood we can not
say. If the original Jukeses had become Christians we have no doubt
that the majority of their descendants would have been humble, but
orderly, and possibly useful citizens.”

Aaron Burr, a grandson of Jonathan Edwards, lacked but one electoral
vote to become president of the U.S. His intellectual standing in
Princeton was not equaled by another for 100 years.

Jonathan Edwards was a new creation, as is every other regenerated
person.

According to evolution, there can be no new creation. According to the
word of God, and the experience of an innumerable host, God is
continually creating souls anew, who become “new creatures”. Evolution
is not in harmony with the Bible nor the experience of the children of
God.

Whenever it can be shown that men become more spiritual when they
accept the theory, and become more devoted to saving souls as their
zeal for the theory increases, the theory will be worthy of more
serious consideration. We await the evidence.

Evolution can not account for the spirituality of man, but tends to
destroy it where it exists.



41. THE HOPE OF IMMORTALITY


The belief in the immortality of the soul has been well nigh universal,
in all ages, and among all nations, and is taught by all religions.
Without it, life and death are insolvable mysteries. A doctrine so
universal, so well established by reason, ought not to be set aside
without the most convincing reasons and the most compelling evidence.
Either this universal belief is due to revelation, or the abundance of
proof appealing to reason, or both.

A child is born, suffers agonies for weeks and months, and dies. If no
future, who can solve the mystery? John Milton writes his immortal
“Paradise Lost,” and dies. Must his great soul perish? Nero murdered
his brother, his sister, his wife and his mother, and multitudes of
Christians and lastly himself, and was guilty of a multitude of other
shocking crimes; while many of the best men and women this world ever
knew suffered persecution and martyrdom for doing good and blessing
others. Will they all alike meet the same fate—annihilation—at the
hands of a just God?

The immortality of the soul is supported by science. Science teaches
the indestructibility of matter. Not all the power that man can bring
to bear, can destroy the minutest portion of matter, not a molecule,
not an atom, not an electron. The smallest particle of dust visible to
the eye contains, we are told, about 8,000,000,000 atoms, and each
atom, as complex as a piano,—1740 parts. Not one of these atoms or
parts could be annihilated by all the power of a thousand Niagaras.

In all the multiplied chemical changes everywhere in the world, not a
single particle, the most worthless, is lost or destroyed. Dissolve a
silver dollar in aquafortis, and then precipitate it to the bottom, and
not a particle need be lost. If God takes such scrupulous care of the
most worthless particle of matter, will he suffer the immortal soul to
perish? If he preserves the dust, how much more so the highest of all
his creations, the mind that can write an epic, compose an oratorio, or
liberate a race. Evolution crushes out of the heart the hope of
immortality, and makes man but an improved brute, while Jesus Christ
“hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.”

If evolution be true, when did man become immortal? At what period did
he cease to be a brute, and become an immortal soul? Was it before the
days of the pithecanthropus, the Piltdown fraud, the Heidelberg man, or
the Neanderthal man?

The change was ever so slow and gradual; could the parents, anywhere
along the line, be mere brutes and the children immortal human beings?
Would it not be impossible to draw the line? Is it not evident that the
ape-man could never grow into immortality, or into the image of an
infinitely great and glorious God?

If evolutionists _could_ give us any convincing evidence that the body
of man developed from the brute, they can not prove that the soul grew
from nothing to the high mental, moral and spiritual attainments, into
the very image of God, and by its own efforts become as immortal as God
himself.

After all, did any theory as ridiculously untrue as evolution ever
masquerade as science, or ask to be accepted by thoughtful men? Has it
as much to support it as the false sciences of alchemy and astrology?

The brute origin of man, infidelity, agnosticism, modernism, atheism
and bolshevism, are in harmony, and cooperate in robbing man of heaven
and the hope of immortality.

If man believes that he dies as the brute dies, he will soon live as
the brute lives, and all that is precious to the heart of man will be
forever destroyed. We recoil from such a fate, but live in the serene
assurance that such a thing can never be.



42. SIN


Sin is a great fact. It can not be denied. It can not be explained by
evolution. It is universal. Every race all nations, with all grades of
intellect and culture, civilized or uncivilized, are cursed with sin.
All the wrongs, all crimes in the world, all immoralities, are due to
sin. Sin causes tremendous destruction of life, property, and
character. Why is it universal? When did it originate? Did it originate
in all the members of the brute-human race at one time? Did some become
sinners, and others remain without sin? Sin must be developed, since
brutes have no sin. Why not some of the ape-humans without sin? Does
natural selection explain the universal sinfulness of man, on the
ground that those who did not have this “improvement” perished? They
all died and only sinners were left, hence all survivors are sinners!
Sin makes men more fit, and hence sinners only survive! Is evolution
simply ridiculous, or a crime?

When in the “ascent of man” did he become a sinner? A million years
ago? Judging from the pictures of fierce alleged ape-men, it must have
been a long, long time ago. Did all become sinners then? What became of
the progeny of those who had not secured the attainment of sin? Why
have not other members of the monkey family become sinners? Why do we
not hang them for murder? Will they yet attain unto sinfulness?

H. G. Wells, the alleged historian, says, p. 954, Outline of Hist., “If
all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then
there had been no first parents, no Eden and no Fall. And, if there had
been no Fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the
story of the first sin, and the reason for an atonement upon which the
current teaching based Christian emotion and morality, collapses like a
house of cards.”

Evolution claims that man fell up and not down. It denies almost every
truth of religion and the Bible, as well as of experience. “Man is
falling upward, he is his own Savior, he is ever progressing, and has
no need of a Savior.” Contrast this with the sublime statements of the
word of God concerning the creation and the fall of man.

Evolution is charged with explaining all phenomena pertaining to
man,—soul and body. It exhausts itself in trying to show that the body
of man may _possibly_ be developed from the brute. It fails miserably.
The problem of accounting for the soul of man with all its equipment is
so much more difficult, that little or no effort is made to account for
it, virtually confessing that the much-exploited theory of evolution
can not possibly be true, when applied to the soul as well as the body.



43. REDEMPTION


Evolution does not account for sin. Much less does it have any cure for
sin. If sin marks progress or advancement, of course, its cure would be
retrogression. But how can sin be cured? What answer has evolution?
Culture, education, refinement, favorable environment. These are all
desirable, but no cure for sin. Some of the most cultured, educated and
refined, were the greatest monsters that ever lived. Wholesale
murderers like Nero, Alexander and Napoleon, had a good degree of
education and culture. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, who murdered
Robert Franks in Chicago, were among the most brilliant graduates of
universities. Friends say they were led on to atheism and crime by the
reading of modernist books. No doubt, the doctrine of evolution, taught
so zealously in the universities, played a large part.

Human efforts and human devices have utterly failed to cure sin. The
human will is too feeble to resist its power.

The Bible, which evolution undermines, teaches us there is a cure for
sin. The divine Son of God saves us from our sins, cleanses and
purifies our natures, and fits us for happiness and service in both
worlds. Jesus offers the only practical plan of salvation from sin. The
Bible plan of redemption is the only plan that works.

Paul, a murderer, with his heart full of malignant hate, and his hands
stained with blood, greedy to imprison men and women, “breathing out
threatening and slaughter,” looks to Jesus by simple faith, and is
changed into a gentle and loving Christian, rejoicing in suffering and
persecution. He rose to such heights, by the help of Jesus, that he
loved his enemies, and was willing to be damned, if that would save
their souls. What glorious men the apostles became by the transforming
power of Christ! What grand men and women the long line of martyrs
were. The men and women who have blest the world most, have been
believers in the Bible, and not in evolution. Perhaps a million martyrs
have died for Christ. Where are the martyrs for evolution?

Augustine was redeemed from a life of vice and dissipation, blessed the
world with his writings, and became one of the greatest leaders of
thought in all ages. John Bunyan was so profane that the most vicious
would cross the street to avoid him. The gospel made him one of the
holiest of men. His Pilgrim’s Progress has been translated into
hundreds of languages, and read by millions. John G. Woolley was a
maudlin drunkard, intent on taking his own life,—friends, money,
character, and reputation lost,—but was converted and preached, with
burning eloquence, the gospel of temperance and prohibition around the
world.

Elijah P. Brown, a zealous infidel, heard Mr. Moody preach on the love
of God, found the Savior, and became a brilliant defender of the faith.

Chundra Lela, the daughter of a Brahman priest, spent a fortune and
lived a life of self inflicted torture, seeking salvation at all the
great shrines of India, but found none, until she heard the simple
story of Jesus from the lips of a missionary. That matchless name gave
her victory over sin, and transformed her into a saint and soul-winner
for Christ. Maurice Ruben, a successful Jewish merchant of Pittsburgh,
rejected Christianity and the Jewish religion as well. He was
converted, ostracised, persecuted, thrust into an insane asylum
unjustly, and told he must give up Christ or his wife and child. He
chose Christ. His family soon became Christians and joined him in the
great Jewish mission in Pittsburgh.

In a single night, the mountain floods in India caused the death of the
six children of Rev. D.H. Lee,—only one living a short time to tell the
story. They were all musicians. Out of the awful silence of that home,
Mrs. Lee sent to American papers, a triumphant pean of praise to God.
She was sustained by the power of God, so that she could kiss, in
loving devotion, the hand that smote her. The Lee Memorial Orphanage,
of Calcutta, stands as their monument.

Holy Ann, of Canada, was so profane and such a terror, that this name
was given her in derision. Touched by Christ, she became so sweet a
saint, that all regarded her as holy indeed.

Geo. Long, a denizen of the underworld, a victim of strong drink,
cocaine, opium and morphine, ruined in body and soul, was redeemed and
freed from these desperate vices, and made a successful soul-winner for
Christ.

These are a few of that “multitude that no man can number” who have
been delivered from the power of sin, and have overcome by faith in
Jesus.

If evolution be true it should be no hindrance but a great help. How
many drunkards have been saved by a belief in evolution, and how many
have been greater soul winners by such belief? How many criminals have
been saved by acceptance of the theory? Many have been made criminals,
unbelievers, infidels, agnostics and atheists by it; how many have been
made Christians? Can any one be named who has been made a more earnest
and successful soul winner, or a sweeter saint, by espousal of the
doctrine? If one blank page were set aside for a list of all victims of
sin and vice and crime, who were redeemed by faith in evolution, the
space would be wasted. Is there any comfort in it to the dying, any
help to the living? Would any evolutionist preacher read to the dying,
the so-called classic passage from Darwin, showing that every living
thing on the tangled bank came from one germ without any assistance
from God? Is there any choice passage in all their books, fit to be
read to the dying, or to a man in trouble, or in need of salvation? Is
there anything to put hope in the breast, or inspire a man to a holy
life? Anything to lift up a man sodden with sin, and redeem him from
the fetters that bind him?

To give up the tested power of the gospel and to accept instead, the
worthless guesses of evolution, ruinous in life and powerless in death,
would be a sorry exchange indeed.



44. EV. AIDS INFIDELITY AND ATHEISM


Many evolutionists frankly declare that the purpose of evolution is to
destroy belief in God, or his active control of his creation. Prof. H.
F. Osborn, of N. Y., a leading evolutionist, says, “In truth, from the
period of the earlier stages of Greek thought, _man has been eager to
discover some natural cause of evolution, and to abandon the idea of
supernatural intervention in the order of nature_.” Other evolutionists
openly announce their antagonism to the Bible and Christianity.
Clarence Darrow, in the Tenn. trial, called Christianity a “fool
religion.”

Darwinism has been declared an attempt to eliminate God and all
evidence of design and to substitute the old heathen doctrine of
chance. With this announced purpose in view, we are not surprised to
learn from Prof. J. H. Leuba that one-half the professors teaching it
did not believe in God nor the immortality of the soul; and that there
is a rapid increase in the number of students who have discarded
Christianity as they progress in their course,—Freshmen, 15%; Juniors,
30%; Seniors, 40 to 45%. Children of Christian homes, taught to believe
in God and Jesus Christ, are led into infidelity and atheism rapidly,
as they progress in their course. It makes one shudder to think what
the future will be, if atheism and infidelity are taught in the guise
of science. And the statistics show that evolution is one of the most
fruitful sources of unbelief. What the students are taught today, the
world will believe tomorrow. How great the havoc caused by a
comparatively few infidel or atheistic professors!

Dr. C. W. Elliott, a Unitarian, announced with apparently great glee,
that already the young men and young women do not believe the story of
the creation of Adam and Eve. The leaders of Bolshevist Russia said to
Dr. Sherwood Eddy, with brutal frankness, “The Communist party, the
only party allowed in Russia, is 100% atheistic. If a man believes in
God, he can not be a member of the party.” Russia is an example of a
country where atheism is taught in the public schools, and we are
moving all too fast in the same direction. The Red Army shot to death
500,000 men in Russia. The horrors of the French Revolution may be
outdone, if we do not awake to our danger. Russia is cursed with a
doctrine offensive alike to the Christian, the Jew, the Mohammedan and
even the deist. In America the same condition may be brought about,
more stealthily and more effectually in the name of science. Indeed,
the Russian atheists feel the necessity of adopting the American method
as more effective. An Associated Press dispatch of Dec. 24, 1924,
states that Zinovieff, a Soviet leader, admitted that the Communists
had gone too far in their efforts to establish atheism by _force_, but
he adds, “_We shall pursue our attacks on Almighty God in due time, and
in an appropriate manner. We are confident we shall subdue him in his
empyrean. We shall fight him wherever he hides himself_.... I have been
informed that not only young Communists, but Boy Scouts, are mocking
people who are religious. I have also been told that _groups of Boy
Scouts have even imprisoned whole congregations in church while they
were worshipping_! Our campaign against God and religion must be
carried out in a pedagogic way, not by violence or force.” Do we want
such a situation in America? We are drifting that way.

Evolution has no quarrel with atheism, agnosticism, modernism, or any
other species of infidelity. _Its quarrel is with Christianity and the
Bible_. Why should we wish to harmonize Christianity with evolution,
when the theory can not possibly be true? Prof. Newman says, “Readings
in Evolution,” p. 8, “Contrary to a widespread idea, evolution (in what
sense?) is by no means incompatible with religion (Christianity?)....
The majority of thoughtful theologians (whew!) of all creeds are in
accord with the evolution idea.”

Dr. W. W. Keen says, “I believe in God and evolution.” An infidel, a
deist, even a heathen can say that. To harmonize evolution with
Christianity is quite a different problem. Prof. Coulter, of Chicago
University, endeavors to show where “religion and evolution meet.” But
the “religion” is the religion of the infidel, not of the Christian.
How can a theory which denies the creation of Adam and Eve and any
intervention and control by the Creator, be harmonized with
Christianity?

Rev. F.E. Clark, President of the World C.E., says, “The Darwinian
theory, whatever it may be called today, has doubtless unsettled many
minds. A hazy agnosticism has often taken the place of strenuous
belief.” He is in a position to know.

A beloved friend, president of a prominent college, an evolutionist and
a modernist, in a letter to the writer, claimed that evolution is
nearest the truth, and those who believe it are nearest to “Him who is
the Way, the Truth and the Life.” If this is true, how many
evolutionists are more spiritual, more earnest, and more successful on
that account, in winning souls to Christ?

No doubt many have been made infidels and atheists. How many souls have
been won to Christ by Osborn, Newman, Conklin, Darrow, Lull, Shull,
Scott, Coulter, Metcalf, Kellogg, Nutting, Thompson, Castle, Chapin,
and all other prominent evolutionists? If evolution is nearest the
truth, the number of their converts to Christ should be greatly
increased. We await the information, which we do not have at hand, to
see if the contention of our friend is correct.

Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson preaches daily in the Angelus Temple, Los
Angeles, Cal., which seats 5300 people. Often standing room is at a
premium. Many souls are saved (over 14,000 in 1924), and thousands are
healed in answer to prayer. What a tremendous loss to humanity, if the
gospel of Christ had not saved her from the infidelity and atheism of
evolution! She writes as follows of her conversion: “The writer went to
one of the services being held in my home town, by the Irish
evangelist, Robert Semple, and entered the meeting _practically an
infidel, having studied Darwinism, atheistic theories until faith in
God’s word was shaken_. Never will those moments be forgotten. One
could feel the power of God, the moment one entered the building. Such
singing, hands uplifted, faces radiant, such Amens and Hallelujahs,
such power and fervor back of every word that was spoken, such
exaltation of the deity of Christ, the necessity and power of the
atoning blood, the second Coming of Christ, the power of the Holy
Spirit to energize and get the believer ready for his coming, gripped
and stirred the heart.... Never, never, can the writer forget that
hallowed hour, when, kneeling by a Morris chair in the home of a
friend, early in the morning, with uplifted arms, she prayed and felt
for the first time, the tremendous inflowing power of the Holy Ghost.”
Behold, the power of evolution to ruin, and of Christ to save!

Evolutionists are, as a rule, modernists; and modernists are
evolutionists, and are reckless in their zeal to destroy the faith of
the young committed to their care. We select the following 3
illustrations from a single article in the PRESBYTERIAN:

1. “A father sat _in this office_, a minister above middle life, his
eyes full of tears, and his soul full of groans, as he told how he had
sent his son, who had been an orderly Christian boy, to a supposedly
Christian college. When the boy returned home, after graduation, he
informed his father that through instruction received, he had lost his
faith, and believed none of those things he had been taught at home.
The father was so shocked and overcome he could make no reply, but
asked his son to kneel and pray with him as they used to do. The son
refused, and said he no longer believed in prayer.”

2. “A good Christian father desired to give his young daughter the best
educational advantages. She planned to be a missionary. He sent her to
a well-known college, considered Christian. This college had a Bible
chair, but of the destructive, critical type. The young student
absorbed what she was taught. She lost all reverence for the Bible and
rejected it. She entirely lost her faith which she had learned from her
father and mother. She gave up her mission plans, and developed into a
Socialist. When about to graduate, she wrote her father frankly, that
she had given up the faith he had taught her, and she was going to live
with a man without marriage, as she did not believe in marriage; The
father visited her and protested. She smiled and called him an old
fogy. She only consented to marriage when threatened with the civil
law.”

3. “Another case reported to us by another father:—His son, attending a
so-called Christian college, reported that one of the professors
declared that they and himself were hypocrites, because they attended
chapel every morning where they were told that if they believed and did
such things, they would some day go to another world and play on a
harp. But if they did not, they would burn. This he declared was all
bosh. Then he called attention to the teachings in the college, that
_man in his body developed from a lower animal, but that man had no
soul.”_

Yet some colleges and universities ask Christian people to give large
sums, with no guarantee that evolution, infidelity and atheism will not
be taught. Is it any wonder that Christian parents tremble while their
sons and daughters run the gauntlet of infidel professors?



45. EV. WARS WITH CHRISTIANITY


Evolution leads to infidelity and atheism, and is therefore a foe to
Christianity. It denies the doctrine of special creation, and opposes
the religion of the Christian, the Jew and the Mohammedan. Why should
not all these religions unite against the false and unsupported theory
that would make havoc of them all?

If evolution could be shown reconcilable with Christianity it would be
lifted into respectability, but what would be the gain to Christianity?
The Christian religion is reconcilable with all true science, and hails
every true science with joy. The church loves true science, but hates a
lie that poses as the truth. Christianity is readily reconcilable with
the true sciences of Astronomy and Chemistry, but we do not try to
reconcile it with the corresponding false sciences of astrology and
alchemy. Why should we be concerned about such a reconciliation, since
all the evidence offered in favor of evolution is not worthy of serious
consideration? The facts hotly contest every guess. There is no
conflict between Christianity and science. But evolution is not
science. It is not knowledge. It is not truth. It is not proved. It is
not certain. It is not probable. It is not possible. How can the
serious student escape the conviction that evolution has not one chance
out of a thousand, or even out of a million, to be a possible theory,
and none whatever to be a probable or proven theory? It offers not one
convincing argument. The evidence against the theory shows that it has
not yet been proven and never can be.

The present population of the globe shows the unity of man in the days
of Noah, and that the human race could not have begun 2,000,000 years
ago, nor 1,000,000, nor 100,000, nor even 10,000. And no evidence that
the evolutionist can bring to bear _now or hereafter_ can ever set
aside this mathematical demonstration. This one argument is sufficient
to shatter evolution, if there were no more. But the whole fifty
arguments in this book rush to the support of this one. They all
harmonize with the Bible statements, but not one of them with the false
and baneful theory of evolution. And no erroneous guess that they can
make will escape mathematical detection. Why should we gratify the
clamor of evolutionists, and seek to reconcile Christianity with a
theory so manifestly false? To be worthy of acceptance, it must
satisfactorily answer every one of the fifty arguments in this book and
many more. Can it do so?

Evolution carried to a logical conclusion would destroy every thing
precious to the heart of a Christian. It denies the real inspiration of
the Bible. It makes Moses a liar. It denies the story of creation, and
substitutes an impossible guess. It denies miracles, the providence of
God, the creation of man and beast, and God’s government and control of
the world. It laughs at the Virgin Birth and makes Christ a descendant
of the brute on both sides. It denies his deity, his miracles, his
resurrection from the dead. It joins hands with agnosticism, modernism,
and other forms of infidelity and atheism and gives them the strongest
support they have ever had. All these hail evolution’s advent with
exceeding great joy. It has the closest affinity with the wildest and
worst theories ever proposed.

Its writers and proponents turn infidel and atheist. Its teachers and
advocates lose their belief in God and the immortality of the soul. The
young men and women who are taught, abandon the faith of their fathers
and join the forces of unbelief. To be sure, some are saved by
inconsistency, and still maintain their faith, but the havoc is great.
It would strip Christ of his Deity, reduce him to the dimensions of a
man, and make his religion powerless to save. The men who tore the
seamless coat from the dying Christ did a praiseworthy act, in
comparison to those who would strip him of his deity and glory, for
these are the garments of God!

The ruffians at the foot of the cross gambled for a mere human garment,
but there are evolutionists who would “trample under foot the blood of
the Son of God, and count it an unholy thing.” Those who would rob the
world’s redeemer of his power and divinity, while speaking
patronizingly in praise of his human traits, do but insult him with the
vilest slander, which makes the derision of Calvary seem like praise.

We were not surprised to learn that, in the Tenn. trial, evolution was
defended by agnostics, who made their chief attack on the Bible and
revealed religion; and the school, the home and religion were defended
by men of high Christian character. Had Mr. Darrow as earnestly
defended Christianity and Mr. Bryan as earnestly opposed it, millions
would have held up their hands in astonishment. But the alignment was
natural, and opened the eyes of multitudes to the fact that evolution
is a friend to infidelity and a foe to Christianity. Their objection to
prayer during the sessions of the Court shows that they hated what God
loves.

Christianity withstood ten fiery persecutions, lasting 300 years, at
the hands of the Roman Empire, the mistress of the world. The church
was purified, and grew and multiplied. Numerous heresies arose but all
yielded to the truth. Sin and corruption, formality and worldliness,
failed to hinder the triumphant march of the church of God.

Infidelity made a fierce attack in the eighteenth century in its own
name, and lost. But the most dangerous attack ever made is on, by
evolution claiming the name of science and modernism claiming the name
of religion. This f. a. d. is truly for a day. God will win. Truth will
live and error will die. But too many precious souls will be lost
unless the world awakes to see its danger soon.

Mr. Bryan, in his last message, said: “Christ has made of death a
narrow starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the
reunion of tomorrow. Evolution strikes out the stars, and deepens the
gloom that enshrouds the tomb.”.... “Do these evolutionists stop to
think of the crime they commit when they take faith out of the hearts
of men and women and lead them out into a starless night?”

Evolution wars with the religion of the Jews also. It attacks the Old
Testament, dear alike to Christian and Jew. The Jews were the chosen
people of God, and have played a large part in the history of the
world. We gladly clasp hands with them against the common foe. David
speaks for Jews and Christians in the 8th Psalm. In contrast to
evolution, which degrades man to the level of the brute, he declares
that man is but a little lower than God, (Heb. Elohim). The revisers
had the courage so to translate it. David under inspiration wrote
better than he knew, and in absolute harmony with modern science:

“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the
stars which thou hast ordained, what is man (how great must he be) that
thou are mindful of him (among thy great and marvelous works)? And the
son of man that thou are a companion to him? For thou hast made him but
little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honor. Thou
madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put
all things under his feet; all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of
the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatsoever
passeth through the paths of the seas.” All animals confess the
dominion of man since the strongest and fiercest flee from his face.
Who would prefer the “string of stuff” that would place man below the
brute, to the lofty description of the Hebrew Psalmist placing him a
little lower than God?

Hon. William J. Bryan, when attending the Presbyterian General Assembly
in Columbus, Ohio, in 1925, enclosed, in a letter to the writer, a copy
of his address in John Wanamaker’s Church, Philadelphia, on evolution
and modernism, from which we select the following:

“All the modernists are evolutionists and their hypothesis of creation
gives man a brute ancestry and makes him the apex of a gradual
development extending over millions of years. This hypothesis contains
no place for, and has no need of, a plan of salvation. It is only a
step from this philosophy to the philosophy of the atheist who
considers man ‘a bundle of tendencies inherited from the lower
animals,’ and regards sin as nothing more serious than a disease that
should be treated rather than punished. One of the gravest objections
to the doctrine of the modernists is that it ignores sin in the sense
in which the Bible describes sin. Modernists ignore the cause of sin,
the effects of sin, and the remedy for sin. They worship the intellect
and overlook the heart, ‘out of which are the issues of life.’ No
evangelical church has ever endorsed a single doctrine of the
modernists.

“Evolution is the basis of modernism. Carried to its logical
conclusion, it annihilates revealed religion. It made an avowed
agnostic of Darwin (see in his ‘Life and Letters’ a letter written on
this subject just before his death); it has made agnostics of millions
and atheists of hundreds of thousands, yet Christian taxpayers, not
awake to its benumbing influence, allow Darwinism to be injected into
the minds of immature students, many of whom return from college with
their spiritual enthusiasm chilled if not destroyed.

“When we protest against the teaching of this tommy-rot by instructors
paid by taxation, they accuse us of stifling conscience and interfering
with free speech. Not at all; let the atheist think what he pleases and
say what he thinks to those who are willing to listen to him, but he
cannot rightly demand pay from the taxpayers for teaching their
children what they do not want taught. The hand that writes the pay
check rules the school. As long as Christians must build Christian
colleges in which to teach Christianity, atheists should be required to
build their own colleges if they desire to teach atheism.

“With from one to three millions of distinct species in the animal and
vegetable world, not a single species has been traced to another. Until
species in the animal and vegetable world can be linked together, why
should we assume without proof that man is a blood relative of any
lower form of life? Those who become obsessed with the idea that they
have brute blood in their veins devote their time to searching for
missing links in the hope of connecting man with life below him; why do
they prefer a jungle ancestry to creation by the Almighty for a purpose
and according to a divine plan? Why will they travel around the world
to find a part of a skull or remnants of a skeleton when they will not
cross the street to save a soul?

“How can intelligent men and women underestimate the Christ? He is no
longer a wandering Jew with a few followers; He is the great fact of
history and the growing figure of all time—there is no other growing
figure in all the world today. Men—the greatest of them—rise and reign
and pass away; only CHRIST reigns and remains. They shall not take away
our Lord. The Christian Church will not permit the degrading of its
founder; it will defend at all times, everywhere and in every way, the
historical Christ. It believes that ‘there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.’ No diminutive
Messiah can meet the religious need of the world today and throughout
the centuries. Christ for all and forever, is the slogan of the church.
There has been apostasy in every age; attacks upon Christianity have
been disguised under cloaks of many kinds, but it has withstood them
all—‘The hammers are shattered but the anvil remains.’ The church will
not yield now; it will continue its defense of the Bible, the Bible’s
God and the Bible’s Christ until ‘every knee shall bow and every tongue
confess.’

“While it resists the attacks upon the integrity of God’s Word and the
divinity of the Saviour, it will pray that those who are now making the
attack may come under the influence of, and yield their hearts to, Him
whose call is to all, whose hand is all power and who promises to be
with His people ‘always, even unto the end of the world,’ The Apostles’
Creed which has expressed the faith of the Christian Church for so many
centuries shall not be emasculated by modernism.

        “‘Faith of our fathers! living still
In spite of dungeon, fire and sword;
O how our hearts beat high with joy
        Whene’er we hear that glorious word—
Faith of our fathers! holy faith,
We will be true to thee till death’!”



46. CAMOUFLAGE OF TERMS


During the late world war, objects were concealed and the enemy
deceived, by “camouflage.” Many undertake to deceive or to hide their
meaning by a camouflage of terms. These terms are chosen to conceal or
deceive. Terms that suggest advance, improvement, learning, science,
etc., are used to describe unworthy theories, beliefs and movements. It
is an unfair trick to win and often meets with undeserved success.

Evolution in the sense of growth and development, is true of a part of
animal and plant life, and in this sense is undisputed. Some speak of
the growth of a child and of all progress, as evolution. In the sense
at issue, it means the development of all the 3,000,000 species of
animals and plants, from one or a few primordial germs, without design
or intelligence, or the aid of a Creator. A distinguished surgeon
declares that evolution from the monkey is mere non-sense but that life
is a constant evolution,—two senses in the same sentence. Such
confusion of meaning brings science into disrepute. The meaning is
shifted to suit.

Science means knowledge. We are glibly told that science teaches the
evolution of man when it teaches nothing of the kind. A mere theory is
not science until proven. A man does not become a scientist by
advocating an unproven theory, but by making some notable contribution
to knowledge. These self-appointed scientists recklessly declare that
the “consensus” of science favors evolution. We oppose evolution not
because it _is_ science, but because it is _not_ science. There is no
conflict between Christianity and real science, but a fight to the
death with “science falsely so called.”

Religion is often taken to mean deism, or infidelity as well as
Christianity. They show us “where evolution and religion meet,”
provided deism or infidelity is religion, but not, if Christianity is
religion,—an inexcusable confusion of terms.

Law is sometimes spoken of as if it had intelligence and power.
Sometimes as a subordinate deity, or agent of God, or an indefinite
principle. Darwin says:—“Plants and animals have all been produced by
laws (?) acting around us.” That is impossible, since “laws” can
produce nothing. He evidently gives to laws the credit that belongs to
God.

Nature, in like manner, is often used as a substitute for God, to avoid
the mention of His name.

Modernism is a fine sounding word, suggestive of learning and culture
and the last word in science, but doubts or denies many of the
essential doctrines of the Christian religion. It is infidelity pure
and simple and of the most dangerous kind, camouflaged under this
attractive name. Who can deny the statement that the only thing modern
about modernism is its hypocrisy? It is ancient infidelity pretending
to be a Christian view. Bearing the Christian flag, it attacks
Christianity. Modernists are evidently ashamed of a name which fitly
describes their views, and seek another. Infidels have tried to win
under their own name. They have failed. Will they succeed under the
camouflaged name of modernism? Camouflaged under an attractive name,
modernists doubt or deny the real inspiration of the Bible, the Virgin
birth of Jesus, his deity, his miracles, his bodily resurrection, the
resurrection of the dead, and his personal second coming to judge the
quick and the dead. Some modernists reject a part of these great
truths, and some reject all.

Liberal is another term stolen by infidels ashamed of their own name.
They are no more liberal in a good sense than others.

A Rationalist is not entitled to the term, because he is often more
innocent of reasoning than his opponents. Reason is not opposed to
revelation. We believe in an inspired revelation, because it is
reasonable to do so. Rationalism is another camouflage for infidelity.
We can have some respect for an honest professed skeptic, but how can
we respect a man who insists on adding hypocrisy to his infidelity,
that, by so doing, he may make greater havoc of the church? Modernists
give such a diluted interpretation to inspiration, to the statements of
Scripture, and the Apostles’ Creed, and the creeds of the churches,
that all may mean little or nothing, and the floodgates of infidelity
and atheism are opened wide.

It has been truly said, “If the Bible is not really inspired, it is the
greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind; for, from lid to lid, it
claims to be the word of God.” Likewise, if Moses was not inspired, he
was the greatest liar of history.

Every variety of infidel and species of atheist will rejoice, if
evolution be accepted,-whether modernists, liberals, rationalists, or
simple unbelievers on their way to the bottomless pit. If evolution
wins, Christianity loses and the church fails.

We hope that scientists will consign to innocuous desuetude their
camouflaged sesquipedalian vocabularies, and tell us what they mean in
short words, so we all may know what they say.



47. WHAT ARE WE TO BELIEVE?


Some would have us believe there is no God; or that matter is eternal;
or that matter was evolved out of nothing; or that all things came by
chance; or that there is nothing but matter,—no God, no spirit, no
mind, no soul.

Some would have us believe that God created nebulous matter, and then
ceased to control the universe; that life developed spontaneously; that
species developed by chance, or natural selection, or by a powerless
“law,” from one primordial germ. Others say that all the countless
exhibitions of design by a matchless Intelligence, are to be explained
by a causo-mechanical theory, which means the theory of blind
unintelligent chance, without purpose or design or interference of God.
Some say that God may have created one germ or at most 4 or 5, and that
3,000,000 species of plants and animals developed from this microscopic
beginning. We are asked to believe that some plants became animals, or
some animals became plants, or that all plants and animals came from
the one germ they allowed God to create. They say that all species
developed by growth, but do not explain why we still have the
one-celled amoeba, the microscopic bacilli of plant life, and the
microscopic species of animal life. Many geologic species are largest
at the beginning; many ancient animals were much larger than their
successors; and the reptilian age was noted for animals of enormous
size. Yet they want us to believe that growth is universal.

They ask us to believe, without proof, that some marine animals
evoluted into amphibians, some amphibians became reptiles, some
reptiles developed hair and became mammals, and some reptiles developed
feathers and wings and became birds; some mammals became monkeys, and
some monkeys became men. For evidence of this, there is not a single
connecting link to show the transformation. Geology furnishes no
fossils of the millions and billions of connecting links that must have
existed. For the scheme would require not only millions of links
between man and the monkey, but also millions between each of the 8
great changes from matter to man. Yet we are asked to accept these
fantastic and impossible speculations as “science,” though it lead to
infidelity and atheism and bolshevism and anarchy and chaos, wreck
religion, make havoc of the church, and send countless souls to the
lost world. What wonder that the soul recoils with horror from such an
atheistic theory.



48. WHAT CAN WE DO?


Evolution, leading to infidelity and atheism, is taught in many
universities, colleges and high schools, and even in the lower grades
of the public schools. It is taught also in some theological
seminaries. It is proclaimed in some pulpits. Some of its devotees, who
have slipped into places of power and influence, urge it with a zeal
worthy of a better cause. The public libraries are crammed with books
teaching it, with few, if any, opposed. Strange to say, it is advocated
by some religious newspapers, along with modernism and other varieties
of infidelity. Some secular newspapers seem eager to publish, on the
front page, attacks on orthodoxy, and articles favoring the wildest
claims of evolution. They call evolution science! What are we going to
do about it? Shall we supinely submit, or do all in our power to
oppose, check and suppress so pernicious a theory? What can we do?

We can refuse to patronize or endow such institutions as teach this or
other forms of infidelity and atheism. We can aid those only that are
safe. Much money that was given by devout Christians to colleges and
seminaries, has been prostituted to teach what the donors hated, and to
do great harm. The faculty and trustees can do much to eliminate false
teaching, if they will. Use all possible pressure to bring this about.

Evolution is taught in many high schools supported by the taxpayers’
money. This should not be tolerated. Text books declare that man is
descended from the brute, as if there were no doubt about it! Laws
should be enacted and courts appealed to, to protect the youth. The
recent decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Oregon
case, gives strong hope that the teaching of evolution would not be
permitted, if a case were carried up to the highest court. It should be
done. If Christianity cannot be taught in the public schools, must we
submit to the teaching of infidelity and atheism in the name of
science? Intolerable outrage! In New York 15,000 people, on a recent
Sunday, shouted for atheistic bolshevism, and condemned the United
States government. A theory that encourages such a belief should not be
taught. When the people awake to see the baneful effects, they will
smite the fraud to the earth. Protests should be made to Boards of
Education, superintendents, and all in authority. The power of public
opinion should be brought to bear. Two states already have forbidden
such instruction, and others will, no doubt, follow. The Associated
Press, in this morning’s papers, calls the struggle a contest between
religion and science, and thousands of shallow thinkers will believe
that evolution is really science!

We quote from Mauro’s “Evolution at the Bar,” p. 71: “A parent writing
to a religious periodical, tells of a text book brought home by his
seven-year-old boy, the title of which was, ‘Home Geography for Primary
Grades.’ Discussing the subject of birds, this text book for primary
grades says: ‘Ever so long ago, their grandfathers were not birds at
all. Then they could not fly, for they had neither wings nor feathers.
These grandfathers of our birds had four legs, a long tail, and jaws
with teeth. After a time feathers grew on their bodies, and their front
legs were changed for flying. These were strange looking creatures.
There are none living like them now.’” Would any one who would teach a
little child, the extremely improbable story that reptiles became
birds, hesitate to teach that monkeys became men and that the story of
creation was false?

Much can be done by the church authorities in refusing to license or
ordain men who believe in any species of infidelity, or who have
attended heretical seminaries. They should give their consent for
candidates to attend only colleges, universities or seminaries that can
be trusted. Congregations should know, before they call a pastor, that
he is orthodox. Ministers are to preach the Gospel not infidelity.

Taboo all heretical religious papers; support those that defend the
truth. Let infidels maintain infidel papers and build infidel colleges.
Not one dollar to propagate infidelity! Make your one short consecrated
life count for truth and righteousness. Many Christians are guilty of
the great sin of indifference. In this greatest of all contests in
which the Church was ever engaged, no one should be a slacker.

Many public libraries have 20 to 50 books in favor of evolution, and
but one or two, if any, opposed. If dangerous books, like Wells’
“Outline of History”, McCabe’s “A. B. C. of Evolution”, and the works
of Darwin, who doubted his own theory, and of Romanes, who renounced
evolution and embraced Christ, can not be eliminated, libraries, in all
fairness and in the interest of truth, should have an equal number in
reply. Insist that librarians get a copy of this book, and other
anti-evolution books, especially those mentioned herein; also other
good books.

The author and publisher of this book will give 50% commission for
selling it, and will mail two copies for $1.00 to all who will become
agents. If you can’t be an agent, you will do great good by securing
another. A copy should be in the hands of every student, so he can
discuss evolution with his teacher; and in the hands of every teacher,
lawyer, doctor, minister, lawmaker or other professional man, of every
parent whose children are liable to be taught the dangerous doctrine.
It will be useful in removing error and in promoting the truth. Agents
should canvass every school, college, university, seminary; every
convention, conference; every religious and educational gathering. A
copy should be in every library.

Every dollar of profit from the sale of this book will be given to
Missions, to be loaned perpetually to help build churches, and to
preach the Gospel in the secular newspapers of the world, and to
distribute this book free. Every $1000 so loaned to churches at 5%
compound interest, in 300 years, will, together with the accrued
interest, aid in building 8,229,024 churches, by a loan of $1000 each
for 5 years, and the new principal at the end of 300 years will be
$2,273,528,000.

After four struggles, the writer was led to give the one-tenth, then
the unpaid or “stolen” tenth (Mai. 3:8), then to consecrate the
nine-tenths, and, lastly, to give all above an economical living. Many
another consecrated Christian, on fire for God and burning with fury
against all forms of infidelity, can do incalculable good by sending
this book free to as many libraries, students, teachers, ministers,
lawyers and doctors as possible. For this purpose, the publisher will
mail the book to large numbers, for 20c each; your $1 sends a $1 book
to 5. For $2000, for example, a copy will be mailed to the 10,000
ministers of the Presbyterian church, U.S.A.; for $4,000, to the 20,000
pastors of the Methodist Episcopal church; for $1000, a copy to 5000
public libraries in the United States and elsewhere; or to 5000
students, teachers, ministers, lawyers, doctors, lawmakers, etc.
Smaller sums in proportion. What great good a heroic giver, in every
land, could do with $1000 or $10,000 or $100,000! With 1,000,000
copies, we would wake the world!

A Canadian farmer gives $1000 to mail one to 5000 Canadian ministers
and libraries. Who will give $2,000 to send one to 10,000 lawmakers in
U.S.?

—Ministers, students, teachers, parents, yes, ALL are urged to be
agents, employ sub-agents, earn wages, and do good. To agents,
booksellers, libraries, churches, S.S.’s, organizations and societies
needing funds, 2 to 25 mailed to any land, for 50c each cash; 25 or
more, 40c—60% profit; 100 or more, 30c—70% profit! Books are the best
outfit,—try 25 (show p. 76). To periodicals (for sale or premium), 30c.
Special terms to general or national agents, speakers, publishers,
colleges, seminaries, etc. Editors are hereby given permission FREE to
use any selections. Add to each: From ‘EVOLUTION DISPROVED’ (cloth $1)
by per. the author and pub., Rev. W. A. Williams, Camden, N.J. _Mail
marked selections and reviews_.

The fight is on. Only about 2% of the members of evangelical churches,
it is said, are modernists and evolutionists. Let the rest assert their
rights and say: “Common honesty requires you to restore to orthodoxy
the institutions you have purloined. We demand them back. Henceforth
you shall not steal our colleges, seminaries and public schools, and
make our children infidels and atheists. You shall not, with our
consent, capture our pulpits, and strip the world’s Redeemer of his
power and glory.”



49. PROBLEMS FOR REVIEW


The following problems, when solved by the reader, will deepen the
conviction that evolution is impossible. The erroneous guesses by
evolutionists may be checked up and disproved by mathematical problems.
No stronger proof could well be devised. For pattern solutions, refer
to the preceding text. A reward will be given to the first person who
points out a material error. Test, verify or correct the following
solutions:—

1. If the first human pair lived 2,000,000 years ago, as the
evolutionists claim, and the population has doubled itself in every
1612.51 years (one-tenth the Jewish rate of net increase), what would
be the present population of the globe? Ans. 18,932,139,737,991
followed by 360 figures; or 18,932,139,737,991 decillion, decillion,
decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion, decillion,
decillion, decillion; or 18,932,139,737,991 vigintillion, vigintillion,
vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion, vigintillion.

2. If the first human pair lived 100,000 years ago (a period much less
than evolution required), what Would be the present population at the
same low rate of increase? Ans. 4,660,210,253,138,204,000; or
2,527,570,733 times as many as are living now.

3. At the above rate of increase, how many human beings would have
survived in the 5177 years since Noah? Ans. 9. How many Jews, in the
3850 years since Jacob’s marriage? Ans. 5.

4. If the human race doubled its numbers every 168.3 years since Noah
became a father (5177 years) what would be the population of the globe?
Ans. 1,804,187,000,—just what it is.

5. If the Jews doubled their numbers every 161.251 years since Jacob’s
marriage (3850 years ago), how many Jews would there have been in 1922?
Ans. 15,393,815, just the number reported.

6. What guess of man’s age can stand the test of mathematics? Ans. Not
a single guess ever made assigning a great age to man,—nothing greater
than the age indicated by the Scriptures; 2,000,000, or 1,000,000, or
100,000 years are clearly out of the question.

7. If life began 60,000,000 years ago, and the human race 2,000,000
years ago, how much sub-normal should have been the brain and mind of
man at that time? Ans. 1/30 or 3-1/3%; or 96-2/3% normal; or 1450 c.c.,
counting 1500 c.c. normal,—more nearly normal than many nations now.

8. How much if life began 500,000,000 years ago? Ans. .4%; or 99.6%
normal; or 1494 c.c., far more c.c. than a large part of mankind can
claim.

9. If man had, in 58,000,000 years, developed only the same skull
capacity as the other members of the simian family (not over 600 c.c.),
how much must he have gained in 2,000,000 years? Ans. 900 c.c., which
is a development 43.5 times as rapid in 2,000,000 years as in the
58,000,000 years preceding. How could that be?

10. If life began 500,000,000 years ago, how would the rapidity of
skull and brain development in 2,000,000 years compare with that of the
498,000,000 years preceding? Ans. 373.5 times as great.

11. If the skull of the pithecanthropus was two-thirds normal, or 1000
c.c., how many years ago must it have lived, in case life began
60,000,000 years ago? Ans. 20,000,000; in case life began 500,000,000
years ago? Ans. 166,666,666.

12. If the Piltdown “man” had a normal skull capacity of 1070 c.c., as
claimed, how long ago did he live, if life began 60,000,000 years ago?
Ans. 17,200,000 years. If 500,000,000 years ago? Ans. 143,333,333
years.

13. If the Neanderthal man had a capacity of 1408 c.c. (assigned by Dr.
Osborn), how many years ago must he have lived if 60,000,000 years have
passed since life began? Ans. 3,680,000; if 500,000,000 years? Ans.
30,666,666. If 1800 c.c. be taken as normal instead of 1500 c.c. as
some insist, these great periods since these “ape-men” existed must be
enormously increased, in some cases 50%.

14. If, on the other hand, the pithecanthropus really lived 750,000
years ago, what, with normal development, should have been its skull
capacity, if life began 60,000,000 ago? Ans. 98.75%; or 1481 c.c. If
life began 500,000,000 years ago? Ans. 99.85%; or 1497.77 c.c. In
either case, practically normal.

15. If the Piltdown “man” lived 150,000 years ago, as claimed, what
should have been his brain capacity, if life has lasted 60,000,000
years? Ans. 99.75%; or 1496.25 c.c. If 500,000,000 years? Ans. 99.97%;
or 1499.55 c.c. Very nearly normal.

The above problems prove either that these alleged links could not have
lived in the periods assigned them, or else they must have had a brain
capacity almost normal, and far greater than assigned to them.

16. The habitable countries of the world-total 50,670,837 sq. mi. If we
estimate that the garden of Eden occupied 10,000 sq. mi. or 6,400,000
acres, there would be 5067 such areas in the world. What chance would
Moses have, not knowing, to guess the correct location? Ans. 1 chance
out of 5067,—virtually none at all.

17. If Moses, not knowing the order of creation, enumerates 11 great
events in their correct scientific order, what chance had he to guess
the correct order? Ans. I chance out of 39,916,800. If 15 great events,
as some biblical scholars point out? Ans. I chance out of
1,307,674,368,000. (Solve by Permutation.)

18. If there are now 1,500,000 species of animals, coming from a single
primordial germ or cell which existed 60,000,000 years ago, how many
species of animals should have arisen or matured in the last 6000
years? Ans. 3000; or one every two years. If life has existed
500,000,000 years, 360 new animal species were due in the last 6000
years. Evolutionists declare they do not know that a single new species
has arisen in the last 6000 years! Even Darwin said, “Not one change of
species into another is on record.”

19. If the skeletons of 200,000 prehistoric horses were found in a
single locality, Lyons, France, how many skeletons of prehistoric man
should we expect? Ans. Many millions. How many are there? Not a single
or undisputed skeleton of an ape-man!

20. If each of the two eyes and ears as well as the nose and the mouth
occupy, on an average, one-thousandth part of the surface of the body,
what, if we exclude God’s design, is the mathematical probability that
they would appear where they are? Ans. .OO1 x .OO1 x .001 x .001 x .001
x .001; =.000,000,000,000,000,001; or 1 chance in a billion billion!
(Solved by Compound Probability.)

21. Evolutionists claim at least 8 great transmutations from matter to
man: matter, plant-life, invertebrates, vertebrates, fishes,
amphibians, reptiles, mammals and man. If we make the extremely
generous estimate of 60% to represent the probability of each
transmutation, what is the compound probability that all would take
place? Ans. 1 chance in 60, which means an extreme improbability.

22. If there is 1 chance in 10 that each transmutation has taken place,
which is far more than the evidence warrants, what fraction represents
the probability that all these great changes have occurred? Ans. .1
raised to the eighth power, or .00000001; or 1 chance in 100,000,000.

23. If the probability of a change of one member of one species into
another species be expressed by .1 (an over-estimate), what fraction
marks the probability of a million members making the same change? Ans.
.1 raised to the millionth power; or 1 preceded by 999,999 decimal
ciphers; or a common fraction with 1 as a numerator and a million
figures as a denominator; or 1 chance out of a number expressed by
1,000,000 figures, which would fill 3 volumes like this book. Such
changes were absolutely impossible, but necessary for evolution.

24. If the scattered remains of the pithecanthropus were found in the
sand only 40 ft. below the surface, and the rate of accumulation were
no greater than the slow accretions that buried the mountain city of
Jerusalem 20 feet deep in 1900 years, what would be the extreme age of
these remains? Ans. 3800 years, instead of 750,000 years.

25. If the Heidelberg jaw was found in sand 69 ft. deep, what would be
its maximum age, estimated in the same way? Ans. 6555 years instead of
375,000. Who believes that sand in a river valley would accumulate no
more rapidly than dust on the mountains? Or that it took 750,000 or
even 375,000 years to cover with sand these precious remains such a
shallow depth? A few centuries at most would account for such a depth.
Can there be any doubt that these were abnormal bones of historic man
and brute?

26. Did any other false theory that ever posed as science, have less to
support its claims than evolution?

27. Believing that a Christian should give to the Lord all above his
necessities, none of the profits on this book will be retained by the
publisher, but all will be donated to missions, to be perpetually
loaned to churches, and to preach the gospel through the secular
newspapers, of the world, and to aid in the free distribution of this
book as explained on pages 116 and 117. How many churches will every
$1000 together with the compound interest thereon, help to build in 300
years, if the average loan to each church is $1000 for 5 years at 5%?
Ans. 8,229,024; and the new principal will then be $2,273,528,000.

28. How could $1000 be given to do more good than for these three
purposes?

29. “For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?”

30. What shall it profit a man, if he wins great fame as a scientist,
persuades a great multitude to accept evolution, infidelity and
atheism, and leads a great company to the lost world, by destroying
their faith in God and in Jesus Christ?



50. THE SUPREMACY OF JESUS


From far-off Australia comes this sermon by Rev. R. Ditterich. What
more fitting climax in honor of Christ, whose worshipers belt the
globe? “Christ is All,” a pean of praise, which has been sung both
sides the sea, and published in three Hymnals and over sixty song
books, will close this volume, dedicated to the glory of God.

_Text: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”—Matt. 16.16._

Jesus asked a great question, and Peter made a great reply. No prophet,
no priest, no king, no patriarch of Israel had ever been greeted in
such fashion. Of nobody else in the world are these words spoken today.
How pure must have been the life, how majestic the personality, how
wise the utterances, how divine the deeds, that compelled this
thrilling answer from the apostle’s lips. Surely something really
wonderful beyond all previous Hebrew experience was necessary before
Jews could bring themselves to acknowledge any man, however exalted, as
divine. The miracle of winning such a confession is testimony to the
sovereign greatness of Jesus.

We, too, have to answer the same question, and there are facts which
lead us to the same great confession of faith.

FIVE TREMENDOUS FACTS


1. Jesus, a peasant, is hailed today as King by people speaking 750
languages and dialects, in all climes, and of all classes. People of
every color raise to Him the song of praise and crown Him “Lord of
all.” There is nothing like this in all history. No other has ever
approached this degree of sovereignty. His kingdom pervades the world.
It is a fact that challenges thought. No world conqueror has ever had
such an empire. Beside this the royalty of men like Alexander, Caesar,
Charlemagne, Napoleon, and more modern aspirants is shadowy and
ghostlike. His is an abiding and a spiritual dominion.

2. Though an unlettered peasant, Jesus has become the world’s greatest
teacher. For all our best knowledge of God, for the revelation of
divine Fatherly love, for our highest ideals of virtue, for man’s most
glorious hope, people on all sides look to Him. Not only men of the
highest rank, but men of the richest culture sit at His feet. The
purest souls sit at His feet. His golden rule will never be supplanted.
His name has become the synonym for all that is true and gracious. To
be Christ-like must ever remain man’s highest ideal.

3. He was a Jew, and yet He founded the brotherhood of man. In His day
Jews had no dealings with Samaritans. But Jesus had. Jews were fenced
off from all other nations in the most exclusive way. But His heart was
all-inclusive, and He broke down all walls that separated class from
class as well as nation from nation. His thought was universal. His
spirit was international. He founded a kingdom based, as Napoleon said,
not on force but on love, and love is universal. It leaps over
mountains, it spans oceans. It speaks in all tongues. The true League
of Nations and the real disarmament are part of His plan for the world.
He was son of Israel only incidentally. Essentially He was Son of
Man—the true brother of all mankind.

4. His life was short, but it changed the world. No one ever did so
much in so short a time. At the most his years numbered thirty-three
years, and of these only a little less than three were devoted to
public ministry, and these were spent in a conquered province of the
Roman Empire. He was killed by aliens at the request of His own
countrymen. And yet time is reckoned from His birth. The very terms
B.C. and A.D. have great significance. He divides not only time, but
also space. The nations are Christian and non-Christian, which is about
equal to saying, civilized and barbarous. One has only to think of the
ideals and practices of pagan people before they received the
influences of Christianity to see the difference He makes everywhere.
No tribe on earth was ever lifted from savagery by the influence of
Socrates, no crime-soaked soul was ever saved by his name and yet
Socrates was the wisest and noblest of the Greeks. He lived for seventy
years and for forty years taught the young men in the most cultured age
and among the most intellectual people in the world. But Jesus has
lifted cannibals and washed the souls of men who were steeped in
blackest vice. The rationalist Lecky said that the simple record of His
three brief years of active life had done more to regenerate and soften
mankind than all the disquisitions of philosophers and than all the
exhortations of moralists.

5. He was crucified, and made of the cross a throne from which to rule
the hearts of men. The cross was a gallows far more hideous and cruel
than the hangman’s gallows. It was the symbol of crime, of shame, of
degradation. He transformed it. It is today the symbol of love, of
purity, of virtue. His dream came true. Once only did a man dream that
by dying upon a cross would He teach men to say that God is love, that
love is universal, that there is hope for sinners, and that the worship
of God must be spiritual. This is the miracle of the ages. The
Crucified has become the King.

Here then are five tremendous facts. They are unique. If only one were
true it would make Him remarkable, but they are all true.

THE MEANING OF THE FACTS


What shall we say of this Man? He accepted Peter’s tribute. He allowed
Jews to take up stones to stone Him for claiming to be Son of God. He
was conscious of being divine. He forgave sins, which is God’s
prerogative. He promised rest to the weary soul, which the Old
Testament set forth as God’s own gift. He said that He came to give
life eternal, although God is the giver of life. He said that none
could know the Father except through Him. He spoke to God of the glory
which they shared together before the world was. Just in proportion as
men have acknowledged His claims in their hearts have they found peace
with God and conquest over sin and the fear of worldly evil. As we
consider all these things we are led to repeat Peter’s confession,
“Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God,” for God the Father’s
face shines upon us through Him and heaven is opened to us as we look
upon Him. In the heart of this the purest of men was the clear,
constant consciousness that He was divine. He always spoke and acted
consistently with this consciousness. Unique in character, He made
claims that would have stamped any other man as an impostor. Humility
and majesty dwell together in Him. He could say, “I am meek and lowly
in heart,” and also “I and my Father are one.” He would call men His
“brethren” and yet accept from them the words, “My Lord and my God.”
This wonderful character came of a race that had for ages looked for
the coming of a Messiah, and whose prophetic literature was burdened
with this hope. After his death his disciples who were heartbroken and
cowed became inspired with a heroism that cheerfully faced martyrdom.
All these facts are shining lights that point to the truth which Peter
confessed. That truth is enshrined in the triumphant words of the Te
Deum, “Thou are the King of glory, O Christ. Thou art the everlasting
Son of the Father.”

And the Christ of history, the exalted Son of God, is a living Presence
with us today. Not remote but ever near, He walks by our side in all
life’s experiences. Not only enthroned in heavenly glory

“But warm, sweet, tender, even yet
    A present help is He,
And faith has still its Olivet
    And love its Galilee.”


Such is our wonderful Saviour, a Friend with human heart of sympathy
who has trod our pathway and is touched with the feeling of our
infirmities; a Shepherd who gave His life for the sheep in an
all-atoning sacrifice; an Advocate who represents us with
all-prevailing power before the throne of the Judge Eternal; a Champion
who Can break the power of canceled sin and set the prisoner free; a
Victor who can smite death’s threatening wave before us; a Lord in whom
we see the beauty and glory of the face of God. We are called upon to
confess Him with lip and life. To us to live is Christ. Knowing Him we
have eternal life. We have all the soul needs in Jesus. There is no
substitute for Him. None can share His throne in our hearts. The
Kingdom is His who is the Christ—the anointed King. Our joy is in Him,
where all fullness dwells. We can say with Charles Wesley, “Thou, O
Christ, art all I want,” and our daily life should be one of close,
constant communion with Christ.

[Illustration]

No. 21. CHRIST IS ALL.

“Unto you therefore which believe he is precious.”—Pet. 11:7.

W. A. WILLIAMS, by per.

_Effectiva as a Soprano Solo, Ad lib._

1. I entered once a home of care,
For age and penury were there,
Yet peace and joy withal;
I asked the lonely mother whence
Her helpless widowhood’s defence.
She told me, “Christ was all.”
Christ is all, all in all,
She told me “Christ was all”.


2. I stood beside a dying bed,
Where lay a child with aching head,
Waiting for Jesus’ call,
I marked his smile, ’twas sweet as May,
And as his spirit passed away,
He whispered, “Christ is all.”
Christ is all, all in all,
He whispered “Christ is all.”


3. I saw the martyr at the at the stake,
The flames could not his courage shake,
Nor death his soul appall,
I asked him whence his strength was giv’n,
He looked triumphantly to Heav’n,
And answered “Christ is all.”
Christ is all, all in all,
He answered, “Christ is all.”


4. I saw the gospel herald go,
To Afric’s sand and Greenland’s snow,
To save from Satan’s thrall:
No home nor life he counted dear,
Midst wants and perils owned no fear.
He felt that “Christ is all.”
Christ is all, all in all,
He felt that “Christ is all.”


5. I dreamed that hoary time had fled;
The earth and sea gave up their dead,
A fire dissolved this ball;
I saw the church’s ransom’d throng,
I heard the burden of their song.
’twas “Christ is all in all.”
Christ is all, all in all,
’Twas Christ is all in all.


6. Then come to Christ, oh! come today.
The Father, Son, and Spirit say;
The Bride repeats the call;
For he will cleanse your guilty stains,
His love will sooth your weary pains,
For “Christ is all in all.”
Christ is all, all in all,
For “Christ is all in all.”





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