Bible -- Antiquities; Bible. Old Testament -- Evidences, authority, etc.
If it can be proved by the aid of science that the human race is older
than is implied by the Genesis account of creation, and if it can be
shown that man has ascended from a dim and brutish ancestry, instead of
being created perfect by the hand of God, the foundation would
admittedly be swept from beneath the Scripture, and the entire structure
of revelation collapses. However, this unwarranted attempt to confuse
the issue and refute the Scripture, is manifestly unfair to science. It
is not too much to say that this is a debasing of the highest labors of
human mentality. Research, in the exact sense of the word, cannot be
used legitimately to establish a pet theory to which the advocate clings
without regard to evidence in the case. The attempt to demonstrate the
organic evolution of man belongs in the realm of philosophy and not of
science. The work of science is the correlation of facts. The sphere of
philosophy is the interpretation of facts. In all of this controversy,
we are not debating the facts of humanity, but are at odds concerning
the application of those facts. The real issue then is not the
_antiquity_ of man, but the _origin_ of man!
In the hope of obscuring the manner of origin, the enemy of our faith
has sought to raise the dust storm of antiquity. It is here more than
anywhere else, that archeology has been such a tremendous aid to the
establishment of the truth. This science has demonstrated the premise of
the Scripture, namely, the fixity and origin of our species. As far back
as the spade has been able to thrust the history of humanity, we find
the same types and varieties of the human family that exist upon the
earth today. Since we are covering this problem of antiquity and origin
in the sixth volume of this series, we will hasten on with this brief
statement of the issue involved. We will later show that all of the
statements made in the text of the Scripture concerning the degeneration
and moral collapse of humanity have been abundantly demonstrated in the
realm of archeology. Further, the claims that we make as to the
historicity of the Bible can be demonstrated satisfactorily in one
single field; namely, the recording of the story of man and the care
used by the Scripture writers in the exactness of their statements. In
this display of historical accuracy, the writers of the Bible have
incidentally repudiated the entire philosophy of organic evolution. It
is not too much to say that no single evidence derived in the entire
realm and history of archeology has sustained the theory of organic
evolution. Remember that we are dealing specifically with evidence. If
the evidence is rightly interpreted and honestly implied, item by item
and in the aggregate mass, it refutes the entire fallacy of this weird
philosophy.
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