THE SPECULATIONS OF EVOLUTION
Could Atoms Chance to Fall Together and Produce Life? — Are We Going toward or from the Monkey? — Darwin's Theory Requires Law of Hate for Its Success COMMENTING on the evolutionary theories of creation, an article in the Times Literary Supplement of June 9, 1905, says: "Never was seen such a melee. The humor of it is that they all claim to represent science, . . . yet it would puzzle them to point to a theological battle-field exhibiting more uncertainty, obscurity, dissension, assumption, and fallacy than their own. For the plain truth is, that there is not a single point in which all agree. Battling for evolution, they have torn it to pieces. Nothing is left — nothing at all, on their showing, save a few fragments strewn about the arena." Lord Kelvin wrote, in the London Times, May 4, 1903: "Was there anything so absurd as to believe that a number of atoms, by falling together of their own accord, could make a sprig of moss, a microbe, a living animal? . . . It is utterly absurd. . . . Here scientific thought is compelled to accept the idea of creative power. Forty years ago I asked Liebig . . . if he believed that the grass and flowers, which we saw around us, grew by mere mechanical forces. He answered, 'No, no more than I could believe that a book of botany describing them could grow by mere chemical force.'" Lord Kelvin also said to a class of medical students, October 28, 1904: "Let them not imagine that any hocus-pocus of electricity or viscous fluids would make a living cell. . . . Nothing approaching to a cell of a living creature has ever yet been made. . . . No artificial process whatever could make living matter out of dead." HIS EARLIEST STATE THE BEST
Sir J. W. Dawson says that "man's earliest state was his best"; and further, "No remains of intermediate forms are yet known to science." ("Scripture of Truth," pages 214, 215.) Professor Owen says, "Man is the sole species of his genus, and the sole representative of his species." (Ibid.) THE TESTIMONY OF NATURAL HISTORY
Perhaps the most unanswerable testimony against the Darwinian theory of the transmutation of species is that given in the following conversation. Professor Post, a scientific gentleman from Syria, visited the British Museum of Natural History in 1885. He was associated, during his visit, with Mr. Ethridge, who was considered one of the foremost experts in that great institution. "Professor Post asked Mr. Ethridge to show him, in that museum, some proofs of Darwin's theory, and he was astonished when so great an expert said: 'In all this great museum there is not a particle of evidence of transmutation of species. . . . It is not founded on observation and facts. The talk of the antiquity of man is of the same value. There is no such thing as fossil man. I have read all their books, but they make no impression. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of such views.'" — "Inspiration of the Bible," Forlong.