WILL WE BELIEVE GOD, OR MAN?
A FEW years ago a skull and a bone or two were found in an East Indian isle, not wholly decayed, and not a few "scientists" joyfully declared that the "missing link" between man and monkey was found, and the once owner of the bones was designated by his scientific name Pithecanthropus Erectus, the erect man-ape,—a triumphant vindication of Darwinism. It is but just to say that not a few scientists doubted, and some even scoffed. Here is the account of another find: Last April, at Lansing, Kansas, a fossil man was found buried under twenty-three feet of solidified river drift. One scientist, Mr. Garret P. Serviss, tells us that the man whose fossil this is, lived so long ago that the "stretch of time" is too vast for measurement in years. Rome, Carthage, Troy, and Mycenæ are modern—even as "of yesterday." They tell us that he lived in the days of the mastodon. Surely this fossil man should show a sloping skull, a rudimentary brain! But it does not. Professor Serviss upon this speaks as follows:— "This part of the story is as brief as it is wonderful. This contemporary of the mastodon, in whose time the deep marks scored by glaciers on the rocks were a freshly written page of geological history, had, so Professor Williston assures us, a cranium of normal capacity; . . . his brain was of full size." If the hypothesis were true, that this man lived so many years ago, and still shows a normal skull and normal brain capacity, it ought forever to squelch Darwinism. But the theory is too dear to so soon relinquish. Professor Serviss immediately falls to wondering "how countless an array of ages during which the evolutionary processes were shaping and developing that cunning organ of thought, must have lain back of him!" "How immeasurably far must we go back before we find the brain of man and the brain of the ape keeping the balance level!" O how much simpler and wiser and better is the story of man's origin as given in the Word of God, and demonstrated by all the researches of archeologists! How immeasurably superior is God's account! All these foolish and self-devouring hypotheses are invented by the enemy of God to destroy all belief in God's creative power, and hence God's recreative and regenerating power in Jesus Christ, and so forever destroy the hope of man.