Shall We Longer Tolerate theTeaching of Evolution? Address by Dr. W. B. Riley, at the World's Fundamental Conference at Fcirt Worth, Texas
years the New Testa– ment, and for 2,500 years the Old Testament, have held un– disputed place in the judg–
the light of what He said, Its study sug– gests the good seed of truth, the evil tares of evolution and the tl'Ue test of patience. THE GOOD SEED OF TRUTH. The \Vo1·d of God is the truth. Pi– late's question "What is truth?" has not, as some imagine, remained unan– swered. The very Christ to whom he addressed is declared, "Thy word Is truth." Churchmen who hold a school professorship, and feel it incumbent upon them to advocate the evolutionary theory, constantly tell us that we "need not be alarmed for the Christian faith since all truth is harmonious," a speech that is needlessly gratuitous and utterly wide of the mark. The presumption that intelligent conservatives imagine there may be a clash between truth and truth is absurd upon its face. To be sure, all truths are harmonious! But why speak of evolution as a truth? Is it easier to beg a question than win it by debate? Our entire contention is that in its conception, development and application, evolution is utterly false, as false to science as to Scripture; and so Scripture and this unproven and un– provable hypothesis can never speak to– gether. "\Vl1at Communion Hath Light \Vith Darkness?'' Truth is the embodiment of intoler– ance! It cannot be forced into any fel– lowship with falsehood. God's Word is truth! Darwin's theory is a falsehood and between them there can be no fel– lowship! "In the beginning God cre– ated the heavens and the earth," Is the only Intelligent answer to the question, (1)
ment of candid and truth-seeking men. The 66 books that make them up wax not old. Their messages, like the mercy of the Lord, are new every morning, and the parables of Jesus are as pa– tent and potent today as when, 2,000 years since, He was speaking. If I had not long been familiar with the Parable of the Tares, I could easily be persuaded that a new Prophet had risen and was writing against the teachers of evolution. My task in this article, therefore, is two-fold; first, to correctly interpret this parable; and second, to show that the Darwin teaching should no longer be tolerated in either private or public schools. To the text then, as found in Matt. 13.: 24-30. "Another tlnrable put he forth unto theu1, saying, 'l'be kingdom of heaven is Ukened unto u mnn 'vhich sowecl good seed in his field: Dut n 'hile m.en sle11t. hl!ll enemy enrne nnd son•cd tares tunong the 'vhent, and '''ent his wny. But '\Vhen the blndc '\VHS s11rung 111>, nnd brought forth fruit, then UPtlenred 1he tnres nlso. So the Hervnnt~ of the hom!fcholdcr enme nnd snid unto him, Sir, didst not thou 80'\V good seed in thy fleld? From whence then hath Jt tnreH? He suld unto them, An enemy hath done thhl. The ser'\'nnts iocn.ld unto hJm, \VUt thou then tbnt we go and gather them. u1>? lint he said, Nay, lest ·while ye gnther 111, the tares, ye root up ahm the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, nnd in the time of hnrve"t I will say to the rea1>ers, Gather ye together fir1'4t the tares, and bind them In bundles to hurn theru, but gather the wheat into my burn." By the interpretation of one of these parables (the Sower), our Lord gives a key to all, throwing special ill umina– tlon upon the Parable of the Tares. In
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