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
2. The first of modern scientific men to adopt the theory that all
plants and animals, including man, are developed from certain original
simple germs, was Lamarck, a French naturalist, in 1809. He conceded
that God created matter,—nothing more. He believed in spontaneous
generation, which scientific investigation has utterly disproved.
3. Darwin goes a step further and concedes there may have been a
Creator of matter, and of one, or at most, a few germs, from which all
vegetation and all animals came by evolution,—all orders, classes,
families, genera, species, and varieties. He differs from Lamarck, by
allowing the creation of one germ, possibly a few more. He says in his
“Origin of Species,” “I believe that animals are descended from at most
only four or five progenitors; and plants from an equal or lesser
number.... Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the
belief that all animals and plants are descended from one prototype....
All the organic beings, which have ever lived on the earth, may be
descended from some _one_ primordial form.” Darwin, because of his
great scholarship, fairness, and candor, won for his theory more favor
than it inherently deserves. Darwin taught that, “The lower impulses of
vegetable life pass, by insensible gradations, into the instinct of
animals and the higher intelligence of man,” without purpose or design.
None of these three hypotheses can admit the creation of man.
4. Other evolutionists, believing in the evolution of both plants and
animals, nevertheless refuse to believe in the evolution of man—the
most baneful application of the whole theory. Even if there were
convincing proof of the evolution of plants and animals from one germ,
there is no real proof of the evolution of man. To prove this is the
chief purpose of this book.
5. A fifth theory of evolution is held by many. It is called
polyphyletic evolution, which means that God created numerous stocks,
or beginnings of both plant and animal life, which were subject to
change and growth, deterioration and development, according to his plan
and purpose. So much of evolution in this sense as can be proved, is in
harmony with the Bible account of the creation of plants, animals and
man. The false theory of evolution is called the monophyletic, which
teaches that all species of plants and animals including man, developed
from one cell or germ which came by creation or spontaneous generation.
Evolution is used throughout this book in this latter sense, unless
otherwise indicated by the context. God does not create by evolution,
for it can only develop what already exists.
This book is divided into three parts: In Part One, material evolution,
especially the evolution of the human body, is disproved. In Part Two,
the alleged proofs of evolution are examined and refuted. In Part
Three, the evolution of the soul is shown to be impossible.
There are in all fifty numbered arguments, including answers to the
arguments of evolutionists.
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