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I Evolution. (By Rev. W. I. Sinnott) God has given man two sources of knowledge: Nature, or the world, which the Greeks called Kosmos, and the Bible. Knowledge of the Kosmos when classified is Science, using the word with a restricted meaning; knowledge of God and His relation to the Kosmos is Theology, most of which knowledge comes from the Bible and much of it is higher than nature, and is therefore supernatural. Theology is the queen of the sciences, BB using the word science in its broad^^B e^t meaning. Philosophy embraces in HB its domain all knowledge both of the H Kc smos and of the Bible. Three doc^B trines are advocated about God: Atheism, Deism and Theism. Athtism exists in three forms: Atheism |B an extreme form'which denies that God exists, Agnosticism which says B that one can know nothing about God, and Pantheism which says everything is God, or an emanation from God. but God is only it, and has no at tributes of personality. Deism in its I highest form affirms that God is a Being infinite and eternal in wisdom (intellect) and power (power), but B emotion and affection do not exist in Him. In a supernatural way He cre a ted a machine (the Kosmos), gave it properites and powers, ordained the method or law of its operation, started it in motion, and left it to B operate according to law. Under B Deism it is proper to praise God, but useless to petition or ask Him for H onTj+hintr in nraver. Deism denies ifree agency, it teaches fatalism. The:sm agrees with Deism that God is ir finite and eternal in intellect and will, but affirms that He has emotions and affections, that he is every where present and everywhere active, and that He has intervened by miracle in the past, and in various super-, natural ways today He shows His love for man. He answers petitions in prayer whenever in His wisdom He sees this to be best. Evolution is a hypothesis in philosophy by which as a method the present order of things, especially of life, is explained. It is found in two forms: Atheistic and Deistic Evolution. Atheistic Evolution denies a creator and assumes the eternity of matter (though some atheists affirm the eternity of mind, or of matter a;%d mind) both, but usually its doctrine is materialism. Matter contains in ftself latent life which in due time is emanated in the lowest variety from which by evolution every living thing, vegeta-; ble and animal, is descended. Deistic j F\-nlution arrees with Atheistic Evo- | lution except that it demands a ere- j ator and law-giver. There are many variations of these two hypotheses, but. the two given are the only ones that can claim a fair degree of consistency. The so-called Theistic Evolution is impossible, because if God never intervenes supernaturally it is not theistic, if He ever intervenes, after the creation of the first varieties of life, it is not Evolution. He argument for Evolution in a few words is as follows: The "internal power in life to produce variations when combined with external i power, environment (climate food etc), | natural selection and the survrv-1 al of the fittest produce aU the genera (or species}, and here-1 dity fixes the genera. It is clamed that the evidence of higher forms of life as you ascend in time in the geological record proves Evolution. A concrete case of evolutionary argument is given in Applcton's Cyclopaedia of 1901 in which IVof. J. S. Kingsley, formerly of Tufts College, later of the University of Illinois, tells us that at certain stages of growth man differs nothing from the frog, the dog, the ape, there? fore man is the son of the ape, the grandson of the dog and the great ! grandson of the frog (or tadpole). EvI en if Prof. Kingsley is right in regard I to the chemical elements and anatomical structure of man's body (a scientific question which only the chemist SBd physiologist can decide) there is a vital difference between man and rite brute, and that difference is in ife itself. Life in its essence is a Kecret which God has not revealed b man, and therefore all the biologists Ef the world know no more what life than the illiterate ploughman. | There are difficulties in the hypothesis of Evolution that prevent the Theologian and Philosopher irom accepting it: fff 1. It cannot be harmonized with the Bible. In Genesis there are separate creative acts; in the beginning the herb and the tree proceed the seed, Evolution requires the seed to proceed the tree; man (one male and one female) was made in the image of God, after Hfs likeness, and God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life?physical, mental and spiritual. Life came from the spirit of l_r God, Evolution teaches that men are born of brutes?that the life of mankind is involved brute life. Jesus Christ the Divineman was begotten suprnatural; by Evolution teaches that He is only the highest result of Evolution thus far. Regeneration, the "^dwelling of the Holy Spirit the Comforter, and the resurrection with a spiritual body are supernatural doctrines; Evolution denies them. I 2. Evolution is opposed by the fact of degeneration. Plants and brutes improved by man the free agent, always degenerate when left to the blind forces of nature. I 3. There are no instances of the | Evolution of one genus into another; today nor in the past since man has ( been writing history. The Evolution-; ist is under obligation to show either j that natural forces will transmute one genus into a higher genus or ; that this transmutation has actually j occurred in specitic cases. He has; ! clone neither. j 4. utner orancnes 01 Knuwieuge besides Theology, as Psyology, Ethics and Logic, are opposed to Evolution. Xo hypothesis in philosop -y is true if any branch of knowledge shows i it to be impossible. 5. It is a hypothesis in philosophy that in its 2,500 years or more of existence has never reached the dignity of a theory. The Brahmine of India, the oldest branch of our it for Thales the Greek, six centuries before Christ, the Greeks, the most intellectual race of the world, taught it, for Thales the Greek six centuries before Christ taught that all things were evelved frcm water, Anaximenes frcm air, Hervelitius from fire. The Latin poet, Lucretius taught the method of Evolution?the fortuitous concourse of atoms. Lamarck the great Frenchman made advances in the doctrine, but it was reserved for, Chas. Darwin. Darwin in 1859 and 1871 so to present the doctrine, after | patient investigation, as to make itj popular, and while Darwinism has! been exploded a large proportion of scientific teachers still hold to Evolution. ' 6. A tree is known by its fruit. Darwin in early life had a decided talent for music and poetry, and was somewhat religious. Devotion to Evolution resulted in an atrophy of his powers so that he los* the power to enjoy music and Shakespere, the world's greatest poet, and to know God whom to know is life eternal. Rev. C. H. Toy, professor in Louisville Baptist Seminary fifty years ago. * ? * a A 1 1* TT^ ! I was probably tne Dest teacner 01 Hebrew in the South at that day. Evolution .in Bible history led him so far astray that one of his pupils, Professor Lyon of Harvard University, said: "I followed Toy until he went, over the precipice, and when I saw his bleeding, mangled body I shied back." It is hard to determine today whether the congregational Evolutionist, Rev. Lyon Abbott, is a Theist or a Pantheist That splendid Presbyterian scolar, Rev. Marcus Dods the Evolutionist, is said in his old age to have lost all enjoyment ' * * 11-1- 4.1 - L-L in prayer, tnougn ne Kept up u:e n?uit Under modern teaching suicides became so common at the University of Pennsylvania among the students, we are told, that the faculty in alarm passing by the learned teachers of * Evolution, sent for the ex-base ball player, Billy Sunday, who hates Evolution, to tell the students that life is worth living if lived according to Bible teaching. The result of Evolution, if allowed its logical effect is Atheism (Agnosticism or Pantheism) or it is Deism, which to conceal the fact that Deism is infidelity is improperly called Theism. There is a community of lifejt is said, between the apple, the pear and the quine, the cotton and the okra, the dog, the wolf and the fox, which point to a common ancestry. The question of a common ancestry in these cases is entirely a matter of, science, but this is not Evolution as 1 a Philosophical question. A true' statement of what Evolution is and the results of it is timely today, be- j cause in so many of our colleges and high schools it is taught as a truth of science. Involved in it is the question, is the Bible the Word of God, is the Bible only the greatest book of the world?a statement that all J a-11? a l-AJ.I I air-mm a ea ana intelligent uuiueis that read it will admit to be true. W. J. Bryan by his lectures at Union Theol. Seminary, Virginia, i n 1921, his lecture before the Baptist convention 1922 and his effort to prevent the money raised by taxation of property, much of it owned by Christians, from being used in teaching Evolution as a scientific fact, when it is an unproved hypothesis and is brutalizing man by teaching him he is only an evoluted brute, is doing the best work of his life. Three remarkable things are present in Evolution: The numbers of scientific teachers that accept it, the contempt with which they treat the Bible, and the puerile and absurd arguments they present as proof of it KINGSTREfc Meets the second Thursday night in each nonth. Visiting bretheren cordially invited. H. U. Kinder, W. M? Donald Montgomery, Secretary. THE CONFEDERATE COLLEGE, No. 62 Broad Street, Charleston, S. C. A Boarding and Day School for Girls. Begins its session September 26, 1922. Historic Institution situated in a healthey location?Advantages of city life, with large college yard for outdoor sports. 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