May 1925
THE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S
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HAECKEL. AND HIS ACCUSERS (Continued from page 201) Aimless Apes
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A pertinent question might be asked here: Why did man’s remote animal ancestors want to descend from the trees and become terrestrial creatures, when skill in climbing would have been extremely helpful to them in escaping from many of their enemies? The fundamental principle of evo lution is that the useful elements of all organisms are the ones that are preserved in the struggle for existence. On the other hand, if living on the ground was an advantage to the primates, from which men and monkeys are supposed to have evolved, one cannot help wondering why the other simian types did not perceive it and make use of it, too, and thus also evolve into the genus homo. It is curious, any way you look at it, why certain primates took a notion to evolve into men,- while others persisted in remaining in statu quo, and have, held on to their siminianism' ever since, even when they have had many examples of progress before them in the human folk with whom they have been associated. All this remarkable differentiation between men and simians took place, according to Haeckel, either hy accident or hy blind law, for he* did not believe in a personal Creator and Preserver. Is it not strange and unaccountable that some of the primates4?i-or at least one pair— took a notion to develop into human beings, while all the others developed into mere simians, and have remained simians ever since? On the other hand, if there is a wise Creator; as we Chris tians firmly believe, it is easy to see why He created rational human beings, and placed the animal kingdom below them in order to serve them. We can also under stand why monkeys never evolved into men; God did not want them to encroach on -the human realm, but to remain in their proper place of subservience in the economy of the world. The doctrine of Christian theism best explains all these data. Otherwise they are' insoluble. Reason vs. Revelation Let us now observe some other revelations in Haeckel’s tractate. On page 5 he speaks of the “clear dicta of reason in pure science and the nebulous imaginings of religion.” By this very token he proves that he never had an experi ence of the truth of Christianity or he would not have called it “nebulous.” The experience of God, pardon and salva tion through Jesus Christ, is anything but “nebulous” to the truly converted person. On the- other hand, there are a good many “nebulous” things in the speculations of the scientists. Further on he declares his “firm conviction that the entire world proceeds according to ‘great, eternal iron laws based upon the very nature of things, and that the highest concept, God, lies in those ,laws themselves.’ ” We fail to see how the concept of mere laws is higher than the concept of a wise, personal, beneficent and all- powerful God, such as Christians believe in. Over against this conception of everything being due to “great, eternal iron laws,” he places the conception of the “traditional churches,” saying: “They maintain that a personal god (sic) created and rules the world; that he discovered the natural laws according to which the world’s development takes place.” No Christian is so crude as to hold that God “discovered” nature’s laws. Christians teach that He ordained, established and executes those laws. It would be a strange kind of God who would create the universe, and then “discover” the laws by which it is governed. We can hardly believe that Haeckel would be so ill-informed as to accuse any one of holding so absurd a doctrine.
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