The Church, the Schools and EvolutionConant, J. E. (Judson Eber)
Religion
The Church, the Schools and Evolution
Conant, J. E. (Judson Eber)
Evolution; Religion and science
What thinking man fails to see the infinity of space between
Modernism and Orthodoxy, or to apprehend the fact that daily
they are drawing farther apart! Time holds no promise of even
a patched-up peace.
Lord Kelvin was astonished at the preachers and teachers who are trying to
apply the doctrine of evolution to the fundamentals of the faith. He said:
I marvel at the undue haste with which teachers in our
Universities and preachers in our pulpits are restating the
truth in the terms of evolution, while evolution itself
remains an unproven hypothesis in the laboratories of
science.
And well might he marvel. And well might the Church become aroused and
alarmed as the logical workings of these false doctrines produce more and
more fearful results within her ranks. The whole Church is being moved away
from the foundations of the faith, and this false philosophy is at the
bottom of it all.
The group announcements of the Sunday services of the Los Angeles liberal
churches show where all consistent evolutionists are headed. Standing at
the head of these announcements are these words, the capital letters being
theirs:
We found our faith on the thought of EVOLUTION rather than
Special Creation; on revelation through NORMAL HUMAN
EXPERIENCE rather than the supernatural; on salvation through
GROWTH rather than a miraculous rebirth.
And when it comes to the awful harvest that is being gathered from our
churches for the forces of spiritual destruction through our colleges and
universities, William Jennings Bryan has had some information given to him
that will give us a hint of what is going on. He says:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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