Origin of the Human Race.
THE apostle speaks of a certain class who go about foaming out their own shame. Very many of this class, like A. J. Davis, and Spiritualists generally foam out their own nonsense, by asserting that the human race has come up from dead matter by natural laws, through mushrooms, snakes, pollywogs, lizards, monkeys, apes, &c. They have been asked just to show a few beings in some of these stages of transition, and the fact that they are not able to do it, seems to make no difference with them whatever. If they were open to the testimony of true science, such facts as the following would put an effectual extinguisher upon their folly: THE DARWINIAN THEORY OF CREATION
Philosopher F. Stein, of Prague University says: "A faithful and conscientious search into the propagation and development of the minutest animal forms of life, proves that they are pro-created only by like forms of the same species, that under no circumstance do they develop themselves from dead matter, and that no kind of experiment can produce the simplest living animal. How the first form of every species has been brought into existence, is a question which lies beyond the natural sciences, and which they never can answer; they have a right to be proud at having furnished the proof that life is only developed by life, but they cannot pretend to discover the secrets of creation. All efforts in this direction, which have lately again been made by Darwin, we may safely consider as utter failures."