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evolution and the watermelon
I w a s p a s s i n g through Columbus, Ohio, some years ago,” wrote William J. Bryan, “ and stopped to eat in the restaurant at the depot. My attention was called to a slice of watermelon, and I ordered it and ate it. I was so pleased with the melon that I asked the waiter to dry some of the seeds that I might take them home and plant them in my garden. That night a thought came into my mind — I would use that watermelon as an illustration. So, the next morning when I reached Chi cago, I had enough seeds weighed to find out that it would take about five thousand watermelon seeds to weigh a pound, and I estimated that the watermelon weighed about forty pounds. Then I amplied mathematics to the watermelon. A few weeks be fore someone, I know not who, had planted a little seed in the ground. Under the influence of sunshine and
shower that little watermelon seed had taken off its coat and gone to work; it had gathered from some where two hundred thousand times its own weight, and forced that enor mous weight through a tiny stem and built a watermelon. On the out side it had put a covering of green, within that a rind of white and with in that a core of red and then it had scattered through the red, little seeds, each one capable of doing the same work over again. What architect drew the plan? Where did that little watermelon seed get its tremendous strength? Where did it find its flavoring extract and its coloring matter? How did it build a watermelon? Until you can explain a watermelon, do not be too sure that you can set limits to the power of the Almighty or tell just what He would do, or how He would do it. The most learned man in the world
cannot explain a watermelon, but the most ignorant man can eat a water melon and enjoy it. God has given us the things that we need, and He has given us the knowledge necessary to use those things, and the truth that He has revealed to us is infinitely more important for our welfare than it would be to our understanding. “ So with religion; if you ask me if I can understand everything in the Bible, I answer: No. I understand some things today that I did not un derstand ten years ago, and if I live ten years longer, I hope some things will be clear that are now obscure. But there is something more impor tant than understanding everything in the Bible,— it is this: if we will only try to live up to the things that we DO understand we will be kept so busy doing good that we will not have time to worry about the things that we DO NOT understand.”
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NOVEMBER, 1963
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