Frank Confession | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1878

Frank Confession.

The Bishop of Manchester recently read a paper before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, in which, among other things, he mentioned the substance of a conversation between himself and one of the prominent advocates of the Darwianian theory of evolution.

"You admit," said Dr. Fraser, "that this theory is only a theory; that as much can be said against it as for it, and that the weight of actual fact, as far as is known, is against it. Why then do you and your colleagues so persistently cram it down the throats of people?"

The savant replied: "The fact is that the Darwianian theory is the only one which makes it possible to account for life without the existence of God; we are bent upon eliminating the idea of God from the minds of men, and this is the reason why we go in so strongly for Darwinism, and teach it so zealously, although probably it is a false theory." —Pacific Churchman.