Topsy-Turvy Evolution by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 6, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 39.

Topsy-Turvy Evolution

By Editor

PROF. WM. BATESON recently gave an address before the British Association at its meeting in Melbourne, Australia, in which he set forth the theory that Darwin and his followers have doubtless been wrong in teaching that evolution began with very simple forms of life and developed into the more complex. The professor thinks that after all, “primordial form or forms of protoplasm could have contained complexity enough to produce the divers types of life.”

The evolutionist looks with a great deal of pity as well as scorn and contempt upon the individual who will not accept his varying and shifting theories. Yet it is quite evident that among themselves they can not agree. But without any agreement, they ask us to accept the theories of evolution just the same.

The Bible truth is not only far more satisfying, but it is the only reasonable solution of the sources of life and of material things that we see about us. “By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear.” Heb. 11:3.

Not only in this text, but in numerous other passages, the Book declares that God’s word is the only source of creation. And when we see the orderly march of the planets, and observe the multiplied millions of stars shining as bright suns in the infinite space about us, who can doubt that there is an all-powerful Being capable not only of creating all of these things, but of directing their movements? The planets that revolve around our sun keep perfect time. The mathematician may figure for years to come, and tell us accurately where we will find these heavenly bodies. Such infinite precision in the movements of the immense suns and their attendant worlds can not come by chance. It is the work of the infinite Being who is not only the Creator but our heavenly Father.

And some men would try to supplant His wonderful work of creation by the absurd and conflicting theories of evolution. Let us stand by the Book, and the common sense fact stated in that Book, that “by the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.” “For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” Ps. 33:6, 9.