DENTON A FRAUD | AdventAI

S. D. A. Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 26, 1881

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 7, No. 20

DENTON A FRAUD.

THE California Christian Advocate has the following note:

“ ‘Prof.’ Denton had the good taste to notice this paper in one of his recent lectures in this city. We might make quite a list of objections to the Professor, but we prefer to make only one, and that is, that he is masquerading as a scientist when he is only a fraud. He pretends to be learned when he is not. He has no standing as a geologist, and is simply making a living by pretense. His assaults upon the Christian religion, though vulgar, blasphemous, indecent, and stupid, we pass over, and simply affirm that he does not deserve to be heard or heeded, because he is an incompetent person, pretending to be a learned scientist. We presume that every well-educated gentleman in California perfectly agrees with us in this just judgment of the man.”

To all of which we give a hearty Amen. The marvel is that such a fraud can meet with such a degree of success as a scientific lecturer. But then, there are a great many who worship at the shrine of “science,” who know as little of her as the Athenians did of “the unknown God,” whom they ignorantly worshiped.