The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 ArgumentsWilliams, William A. (William Asbury)
Religion
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved in 50 Arguments
Williams, William A. (William Asbury)
Evolution
Dr. C. W. Elliott, a Unitarian, announced with apparently great glee,
that already the young men and young women do not believe the story of
the creation of Adam and Eve. The leaders of Bolshevist Russia said to
Dr. Sherwood Eddy, with brutal frankness, “The Communist party, the
only party allowed in Russia, is 100% atheistic. If a man believes in
God, he can not be a member of the party.” Russia is an example of a
country where atheism is taught in the public schools, and we are
moving all too fast in the same direction. The Red Army shot to death
500,000 men in Russia. The horrors of the French Revolution may be
outdone, if we do not awake to our danger. Russia is cursed with a
doctrine offensive alike to the Christian, the Jew, the Mohammedan and
even the deist. In America the same condition may be brought about,
more stealthily and more effectually in the name of science. Indeed,
the Russian atheists feel the necessity of adopting the American method
as more effective. An Associated Press dispatch of Dec. 24, 1924,
states that Zinovieff, a Soviet leader, admitted that the Communists
had gone too far in their efforts to establish atheism by _force_, but
he adds, “_We shall pursue our attacks on Almighty God in due time, and
in an appropriate manner. We are confident we shall subdue him in his
empyrean. We shall fight him wherever he hides himself_.... I have been
informed that not only young Communists, but Boy Scouts, are mocking
people who are religious. I have also been told that _groups of Boy
Scouts have even imprisoned whole congregations in church while they
were worshipping_! Our campaign against God and religion must be
carried out in a pedagogic way, not by violence or force.” Do we want
such a situation in America? We are drifting that way.
Evolution has no quarrel with atheism, agnosticism, modernism, or any
other species of infidelity. _Its quarrel is with Christianity and the
Bible_. Why should we wish to harmonize Christianity with evolution,
when the theory can not possibly be true? Prof. Newman says, “Readings
in Evolution,” p. 8, “Contrary to a widespread idea, evolution (in what
sense?) is by no means incompatible with religion (Christianity?)....
The majority of thoughtful theologians (whew!) of all creeds are in
accord with the evolution idea.”
Dr. W. W. Keen says, “I believe in God and evolution.” An infidel, a
deist, even a heathen can say that. To harmonize evolution with
Christianity is quite a different problem. Prof. Coulter, of Chicago
University, endeavors to show where “religion and evolution meet.” But
the “religion” is the religion of the infidel, not of the Christian.
How can a theory which denies the creation of Adam and Eve and any
intervention and control by the Creator, be harmonized with
Christianity?
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