964 B U S I N E S S his faith in God and w ithdraw from his life th e restrain ing influence of a belief in immortality. T h at is w hat I believe th e Darw inian theory is doing. It leads people into agnosticism, pantheism , plunges th e world into the worst of wars, and divides society into classes, fighting against each o ther on a b ru te basis. I t is tim e th a t th e Christian church should und erstand what is going on and a rra y it self against these enemies of th e Church, Christianity and civilization. “The Bible has come down to us through th e cen tu ries and we find th a t along every line except th e one of which th e Bible treats, th e re has been marvellous progress. But along th a t line,—^ th at is the science of how to live,—we have made no progress. We go back to th e Old Testam ent fo r th e foundation of our sta tu te laws, and we go back to th e Sermon on th e Mount for th e ru les th a t govern our sp iritu al development. More Dangerous T han A theism “The ath eist is like th e man who blows ou t th e light. I know w hat he has done and can ligh t it again and express my opinion of him. But suppose a man comes up and says, ‘I beg your pardon; I am afraid th a t ligh t is so n ear you it will h u rt your eyes’; and then moves it hack and hack un til finally I do no t see th e ligh t a t all; T hat is the man I am afraid of. The H igher Critic moves th e ligh t away, a little a t a time, and finally tak es it out of sight altogether. . . . Few men are brazen enough to call Christ a bastard, yet th a t is exactly th e belief of most of the H igher Critics, many of whom teach in our colleges, for they say they .do n o t believe in th e V irgin B irth. . . . I believe th a t th e g reatest menace to th e Church today is found in th e Dar w inian hypothesis— the doctrine th a t man was no t created by God— as recorded in Genesis— hu t is blood kin to th e b ru tes below him. . . . There is no t an illu stration in all God’s' universe, so far, of one single species coming from an other and different species, and y et th e whole Darw inian hypothesis rests upon th e assertion th a t in th e beginning th e re were ju st a few invisible germ s of life, and th a t everything came from them . If th a t were tru e, we could find evidences of tran sition everywhere, bu t not a single example is to be found— not a single species in process of transition. Evils of th e Evolutionary Theory There was a time, according to evolutionists, when animals had no eyes and, as they now have them , th ere must have been a tim e when they came. Since God is not allowed to make an eye, it ju st happened. These people sh u t God out of His own universe and then try to explain how things happen. This is one guess: There was a tim e when th e little anim al did not have any eyes, bu t— as it was tim e for it to get an eye— th e re ju st happened (no design about it; it ju s t hap pened) th a t a little piece of pigment (some call it a freckle) came on th e skin. T h at concentrated the rays of th e sun and when th e little animal felt th e heat on th a t spot, it tu rn ed it tow ard th e sun to get more h eat and th e sun’s h eat irri ta ted it, and a nerve Came th e re and out of th e nerve came th e eye! Can you heat it? This accounts for one eye, hu t as th e re had to be another one, another freckle came p retty soon in ju s t exactly th e rig h t place! “Darwin tells us how men came to have brains superior to the women. He . says th a t when our ancestors were brutes, the males fought for the females, and they fought so hard th a t th is strugg le increased th e brain power in th e males, and th is increased brain power descended to the males— ju st to th e males! Even if we cannot prove th a t we have superior brains, it is nice to know how we came to have them . . . . One Guess as Good as Another “This doctrine of evolution leads one into the w ildest speculation. The Arabian nights have nothing to compare w ith th e guesses of scientists. Science can do anything when it builds on facts. It gives us rules for th e use of electricity and steam and gas. It tells us about th e fertility of th e soil and the ro tation of crops, b u t h ere it is dealing w ith facts. When a scientist goes to guessing he is no b etter th a n any other guesser. If we w an t fiction, it would he b etter to h ire a crippled girl who cannot work to read Grimm’s fairy tales to th e stud en ts than to have them ta u g h t th e fiction of evolution. “W hat is th e resu lt of Darw in’s theory? W hat would you suppose would be th e resu lt? H ere is a boy reared in a Christian home. He learns to pray. He reads the Bible and finds th a t the Heavenly F a th e r is more w illing to give good T H E K I N G ' S
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