Evolutionism in the Pulpit
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published by Scribners, entitled, “No Struggle for Existence; No Natural Selection,” presents an array of facts in support of the two assertions made in this title, and against evolution, which must carry conviction to any unprejudiced mind. An other to the same effect is by Prof. L. T. Townsend, entitled, “Collapse of Evolution.” Still another, and we believe an epoch-marking book, is from the pen of Prof. E. Dennert, Ph. D., recently published in Germany, and entitled, “At the Death Bed of Darwinism.” A perusal of this book “leaves no room for doubt,” as asserted in the preface of the Amer ican edition, “about the decadence of the Darwinian theory in the highest scientific circles of Germany. And outside of Germany the same sentiment is shared generally by the lead ers of scientific thought.” Thus we see that, on the testimony of the great majority of the ablest of its one-time leading advocates, the evolution ary theory is in articulo mortis. Nay, more, it is already dead, since the spirit (the theory of natural selection) has long since departed. Some of its friends may sit about the re mains intently watching for some signs of renewed life, but they watch in vain. And yet there are ministers of the Gospel who, dis crediting the Bible narrative of creation, are still basing argu ments upon the Darwinian theory of the origin of species; glibly referring to the time “when our ancestors were dwell ers in trees,” and to their own “descent from monkeys, tad poles and fish,” “a much higher conception of man’s origin,” according to their refined taste, than is that given in Genesis. At, or a little before, the beginning of the decade just ended this might have passed for learned talk about the “settled re sults of science” ; but today, among those who are really abreast of the movement of scientific thought, it is regarded as merely echoing in this generation the always unproved and now properly rejected speculations of a dead and gone genera tion of infidel philosophers.”
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