Collapse of Evolution Some Selections from a New Edition o f Booklet by Above Title, Showing Break in Scientific Ranks By PROF. L. T. TOWNSEND H r OF. L. T. Townsend has just issued a revised edition of his well-known booklet, “The Col lapse of Evolution,” which The following quotations from emi nent scientists are selected from the many in Prof. Townsend’s book:
Dr N. S. Shaler, professor of geology in Harvard University, eminent as a scientist: “ It begins to be evident to naturalists that the Darwinian hypo thesis is still essentially unverified. Not withstanding the evidence deTived from the study* of animals and plants under domestication, it ië not yet proved that a single species of the two or three mil lions now inhabiting the earth had been established solely or mainly, by the ope ration of natural selection.” Professor O. C. Everett, also of Har vard: “ If in toe Past those ranks of beings ever rose and moved in proces sion along the upward slope, each pass ing, by no matter how slow a step, out of its own limitations, and in itself, or in its posterity entered upon a larger life, it was before the eyes of man were opened to them. No searching of his awakened powers can detect, even among the remains of unknown an tiquity, any glimpse of the great move ment while in progress of accomplish ment. All, as he looks upon it, is as fixed as .the sphinx that slumbers On the Egyptian sands- All this story of transformation and activity is a dream. The late Professor Agassiz, who still ranks second to no man in his mastery of the scientific method: “ As a paleon tologist I have from the beginning stood aloof from this new theory of toe trans mutation of species now so widely ad mitted by the scientific world. Its doc trines in fact contradict what the ani-
should he given the widest possible cir culation among Christians at the pres ent time. Single copies are but 20 cents, or by the dozen, $2.25. “ Prom what is heard repeated over and over again,” says Prof. Townsend, “ one might be led to think that scholar ly men, men of science and the world s philosophers, are all evolutionists, and that those who question the hypothesis are afflicted ‘with the leprosy of incom petence,’ or are ‘the mental slaves of effete traditions,’ or, ‘a howling pack of antedulivians,’ terms of reproach that have been flung by evolutionists at those who do not agree with them- “ The saying that the scholarship of the world is arrayed on the side of evo lution we do not hesitate to brand as a falsehood whether spoken by a canon, professor or clergyman. Yet this say ing is the bugaboo that has made more men duck than almost any other words spoken. Those who speak such things a r e , however, amazingly belated, though holding high positions in church - and college. Hence from the assertion that scholarly men and others of high standing are all evolutionists, we not only dissent but affirm that the exact opposite is nearer the truth, The most thorough scholars, the world’s ablest philosophers and scientists, with few ex ceptions, are at the present time not supporters, but many of them are as sailants of evolution.”
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