p. 6 | A Scientist Against Darwinian Evolution

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 6, 1906

A Scientist Against Darwinian Evolution

WHILE some doctors of divinity are placing evolutionary and geological science above the Bible, and repudiating the Genesis record of creation entirely for the theory that starts creation with a protoplasmic cell, bringing it up through the ameba and monkey to man, it is indeed refreshing to hear a real scientist who is not afraid of “losing caste” speak out against the whole Darwinian theory, as does Mr. Etheridge of the Natural History Department of the London Museum. Prof. Geo. E. Post, of the Beirut Medical College, was recently in London, and called at the museum to have Mr. Etheridge name some geological specimens which he had found. Professor Post was anxious to know what a real working scientist thought of Darwinian evolution. So, after being shown the wonders of the establishment, he asked Mr. Etheridge if he did not think all this was the working out of mind and Providence. The following is Mr. Etheridge’s reply:—

In all this great museum there is not a particle of evidence of transmutation of species. Nine tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation, and wholly unsupported by fact. Men adopt a theory and then strain their facts to support it. I read in all their books, but they make no impression on my belief in the stability of species. Moreover, the talk of the great antiquity of man is of the same value. There is no such thing as a fossil man. Men are ready to regard you as a fool if you do not go with them in all their vagaries. But this museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views.

These are the words of one who has had as great an opportunity as any living man—far greater than Mr. Darwin—to study into these things; and all the evidence he has seen has been that which tended to disprove the fundamental claims of the evolutionist. Surely the testimony of such a man is worthy of highest consideration in a question of this character. The bulwark of Bible truth stands as strong to-day as it ever did.