The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 ArgumentsWilliams, William A. (William Asbury)
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The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
Williams, William A. (William Asbury)
Evolution
And since the number of species must have increased in a geometrical
ratio, 2097 species must have arisen or matured within the last 6000
years—an average of one new species of animals every 3 years. How many
species actually have arisen within the last 6000 years? 2000? 200? or
2? It is not proven that _a single new species has arisen in that
time_. Not one can be named. If approximately 2000 new species have not
arisen in the last 6000 years, the evolution of species can not
possibly be true. Even Darwin says: “In spite of all the efforts of
trained observers, not one change of species into another is on
record.” Sir William Dawson, the great Canadian geologist, says: “_No
case is certainly known in human experience_ where any species of
animal or plant has been so changed as to assume all the
characteristics of a new species.”
Indeed, a high authority says: “Though, since the human race began, all
sorts of artificial agencies have been employed, and though there has
been the closest scrutiny, yet _not a distinctively new type of plant
or animal_, on what is called broad lines, has come into existence.”
Not a single new species has arisen in the last 6000 years when the
theory requires over 2000. Evolutionists admit this. Prof. Vernon
Kellogg, of Leland Stanford University, in his “Darwinism of Today,” p.
18, says:—“Speaking by and large, we only tell the general truth when
we declare that no indubitable cases of species forming, or
transforming, that is, of descent, have been observed.... For my part,
it seems better to go back to the old and safe _ignoramus standpoint_.”
Prof. H. H. Newman, of Chicago University, in answer to the writer’s
question, “How many new species have arisen in the last 6000 years?”
wrote this evasive reply: “I do not know how to answer your
questions.... None of us know just what a species is. [If so, how could
3,000,000 species be counted, the number, he says, exists?].... It is
difficult to say just when a new species has arisen from an old.” He
does not seem to know of a single new species within the last 6,000
years.
The same question was asked of Dr. Osborn, of Columbia University, N.
Y. The answer by R. C. Murphy, assistant, was equally indefinite. He
wrote: “From every point of view, your short note of Aug. 22nd raises
questions, which no scientific man can possibly answer. We have very
little knowledge as to just when any particular species of animal
arose.” In a later letter, he says: “I have no idea whether the number
of species which have arisen during the last 6000 years is 1 or
100,000.”
Should those who “do not know” speak so confidently in favor of
evolution, or take the “old and safe _ignoramus_” standpoint, as Prof.
Kellogg suggests?
The number of existing species can not be explained upon the ground of
evolution, but only upon the ground of the creation of numerous heads
of animal and plant life, as the Scriptures declare.
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