Evolution by Dr. Walter L. Wilson
A MESSAGE FOR TODAY
N ow I t h i n k we should have a les son on Evolution. What do you think about it and did you ever hear of the theory of Evolution? It comes in various forms, packages, and sizes and you can help yourself to it you know. There is the Mendelian form — that is evolution by heredity; the La marckian form — evolution by en vironment, then there is the Darwinian form — evolution by selection and no one of them agrees with the other. As a matter of fact and interest, in all my travels to universities and col leges in this country and other schools in foreign countries, I have found no two evolutionary hypotheses that agree. Well, how can they? These theories are all a frameup of the human mind and imagination. I saw in the paper a short time ago where they found a jawbone, or some other bone, that is 500,000,000 years old. It is remarkable that these fel lows know exactly how old this bone is. Of course, it might have been 498,- 000,000 years old, but what would 2,- 000,000 years mean to an evolutionist? Parts of a skeleton were found in the Neanderthal Valley of the Rhine Pro vince, so the evolutionist took some wax and some imagination, then deter mined that the few bones were those of a man and he fashioned what he called the Neanderthal Man. Let us turn to some other interesting matters. When God gave the elephant hind legs that bend forward, isn’t it strange that when the camel came along, supposedly through the same evolutionary process as declared by evo lutionists, their hind legs bent back ward. Then when God made cows — 0, excuse me — when cows and horses “evoluted,” their hind legs bent back
ward but when the elephant came along the dear protoplasm got the idea that the thing to do was to make the hind legs bend forward. Of course, he didn’t have any idea that the elephant was going to be so big that he couldn’t get up off the ground without using all four legs. He didn’t know that, this poor protoplasm, and so just by chance the hind legs were made to bend for ward. You see the elephant is so big and heavy, he never could get up on two legs. Now the cow gets up on her hind legs first so she won’t be sitting on her udder, and the horse gets up on his front legs first, and the elephant gets up on all four legs at the same time. Now you tell me how this protoplasm knew all about that. I can’t figure that out. Then don’t you know I read in a school book that some of my children brought home from school, that the reason the giraffe has a long neck is because originally it had a little short neck like a turtle but it developed an appetite, somehow, for leaves and so started reaching up for dandelion leaves and his neck got a little longer and it reached up for potato plant leaves, and its neck got a little longer, and then it reached up for those bush leaves and its neck got a little longer and through the millions of years reaching up after leaves the dear thing developed a long neck like a giraffe. Then, of course, its legs had to develop, too, because the little turtle has short legs and this thing had to have long legs so its neck could reach the leaves on the top of this tree. Wonderful and so do you know what I did? I took that thing down before the Board of Education and I read what the book said and you should have seen those 11 men and 8
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