King's Business - 1923-07

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THE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S

of a poetic tran slato r ra th e r th an of an original scientific th ink er.” It is cause for thankfulness th a t Prof. Drummond, on his death bed, said to Sir William Dawson, the famous Chris­ tia n geologist: “ I am going away back to th e Book to believe it and receive it, as I did a t the first, and can live no longer on uncertainties. I am going back to th e faith of th e Word of God.” Theistic evolution led him to doubt God’s Word. When th e clear ligh t of etern ity dawned on his soul, he left th e uncertainties of evolution and went back to his old faitth. If you bring God into creation, Gen. 1 holds the field, and there is no evolution there. The Agnostic School has for its key­ word, “Don’t know.” “How did m atter o rig inate?” “Don’t know .” “Where did life come from ?” Don’t know.” “How did th e coldblooded reptile be­ come a warmblooded mamm al?” “Who lit th e fire and pu t th e k ettle on ?” “ Don’t know.”,, The Agnostic Evolu­ tion ist rem inds me of the colored preacher who said to his people: “When de Lawd made Adam, He made him of wet clay, and put him by de fireplace to dry.” A colored b ro th er said, "P ah - son, you say Adam de fu st man, who den made dat fireplace?” “Sit down, sa h !” said th e preacher, “ If you pro­ pound such questions, you knock de bot­ tom clean out of theology.” The A theistic Evolutionist denies the existence of God. M atter is eternal, and is evoluting w ithout any personal superintendence. God’s Word says: “The fool has said in his heart, There is no God.” When God calls a man a fool, we can a t least say Amen to it. The Evolution theory has th ree de­ partm ents. The Cosmic deals w ith the formation of worlds. The Organic deals trea ts of th e mind. Evolution asserts th a t m illions and millions of years ago th ere was a ne­ bula, or cloud, of red hot gas containing

in itself the elements and resident force th a t enabled it to develop into the m ighty universe of suns, w ith th e ir a t­ tend an t planets; and on th e ea rth to progress from dead m a tte r th rough liv­ ing plants and animals, un til the grand climax was reached in man. The evolu­ tionist claims to be the superman, and boldly states he knows more of crea­ tion th an our Lord. Cosmic Evolution According to th is theory, th e fire- m ist cooled and contracted, and so com­ menced a whirling motion. And as it whirled, g reat pieces whirled off and formed suns. These suns whirled off planets. Our earth whirled off the moon, and here we are, sun, moon and stars, all out o f w hirling red hot gas! Then the ea rth k ep t cooling, and w ater came. In this w ater th ere was a movement of the atoms th a t developed a slime, the m ighty slime of Protoplasm , made up of nitrogen, oxygen, hydro­ gen, and carbon. And righ t here Organic Evolution steps in and takes th e superintendence, This slime evolutes into moss and plants. Then a plan t into a worm. The worm, feeling chilly, grew a shell. Then a shellfish grew th e bones inside and became a fish. The fish evolutes into a frog, and th e frog into a dino­ saur. The dinosaur got “ little r and little r” every day, in every way and grew feathers, becoming a bird. The bird grew into a kangaroo, th e kanga­ roo into a mastodon; the mastodon into a deer; th e deer into a Lemur monkey; then th e ape, then th e gorilla; and one day a gorilla said; “ I must reach higher,” and so he took the m ighty leap, and behold, an evolutionist professor, who, looking back on his ancestry, re­ members th e tim e when he was a b it of slime on a w ater pond! And they call this science! It does take a m ighty lot of thinking to believe it. The so-called

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