p. 567 | Evolution

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 20, 1883

Evolution.

The Victoria Institute recently met in London. In its membership are many of the most eminent scientists of Europe. One of the most learned papers offered, prepared jointly by several of its ablest men, was on the subject of evolution. They reported that they found no scientific evidence that gives any countenance to the theory that man has been evolved from a lower order of animals. They declared that there is a complete absence of any fossil type of a lower stage in the development of man. They went further and declared that they have not found any proof that any fossil species ever has developed into another. They declared that the link has never been found between man and ape, between fish and frog, or between the vertebrate and invertebrate animals; and that there is no evidence that any species has ever lost its peculiar characteristics to acquire others foreign to it. This is a tolerably square putting down of the evolution theory, but in the school-house debating school, and in some other places, these London and German scientists will have very little influence.—Golden Censer.