The Creator and Evolution
Prof. Edgar Lucien Larkin, of Mount Lowe Observatory, says, “The only possible way to make a perpetual motion machine is to arrange it so that it will start itself.” That is the one trouble with most of the theories of evolutionists. They can build up a great story when they have material already at hand to begin with; but what about the Creator that is required to produce the original material? We cannot get away from the fact that a Creator is essential to everything we see in the universe, and the Bible alone consistently and satisfactorily presents Him. The knowledge that comes from Him through the study of His word would save us from many foolish and useless speculations—such, for instance, as perpetual motion, evolution, and the like. A brief dispatch states that Elder Frank F. Oster, one of our missionaries in Persia, had a perilous flight on horseback by night before the infuriated Kurds. Elder Oster is well known to our Pacific coast people. His wife, who is the adopted daughter of Elder W. B. White, in charge of our work in Africa, together with their four weeks’ old baby, was with Brother Oster in the flight. According to figures prepared by socialist leaders, 5,950,000 men have been killed during the first eight months of the European war, and the nations engaged in the strife have expended $8,400,000,000. This expenditure allows nothing for the damage to property, which would total many billions more.