Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. * * * * * [Illustration: titlepage] The Other Side of Evolution Its Effects and Fallacy BY REV. ALEXANDER PATTERSON Director, Presbyterian Training School of Chicago Author of "The Greater Life and Work of Christ," "The Bible As It Is," "Bird's-Eye Bible Study" and "The Bible Manual." [Illustration: logo] CHICAGO THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASSOCIATION 826 NORTH LA SALLE STREET COPYRIGHT, 1903 BY THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO TABLE OF CONTENTS. PREFACE. Claims of Evolution. -- Interest in subject. -- Effect on Christian belief. -- Opinion of eminent scholars. -- Effect on the common man. -- Evolution being accepted on exparte evidence. -- Question too important to be left to science. -- The average man capable of understanding the arguments. -- The court of last resort. vii INTRODUCTION. Meaning of Evolution. -- Conversational and scientific use of the word. -- Le Conte's definition. -- Spencer's Spheres of Evolution. -- Theistic and Atheistic Evolution. -- The origin of man, the vital point. -- The Bible account and Darwin's. xix CHAPTER I. EVOLUTION IS AN UNPROVEN THEORY. Nearly all evolutionists admit this. -- Citations from Tyndall, Spencer, Huxley, Prof. Conn, Whitney, Dr. J. A. Zahm, Dr. Rudolph Schmidt, and others. -- Evolution rejected by many and opposed. -- Complaint of Prof. Haeckel on this. -- Prof. Virchow's opposition. -- List of scientists who do not advocate Evolution. -- Discarded theories of the past. -- Uncertainty of scientific theories in general. 5 CHAPTER II. THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE AND EARTH. The four problems facing Evolution, the origin of matter, of force, the formation and orderly adjustment of the universe and the origin of life. -- Evolution makes no attempt at the first two. -- Spencer admits it is the unknowable. -- Lord Kelvin's testimony. -- Prof. George Frederick Wright on the Nebular Hypothesis. -- The solar system unique. -- The fire-mist and its wonderful contents. -- Failure as to origin of life. -- Le Conte's theory. -- Testimony of Tyndall, Wilson, Conn, against spontaneous generation. 17 CHAPTER III. EVOLUTION OF SPECIES.