The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and FallacyPatterson, Alexander
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The Other Side of Evolution: Its Effects and Fallacy
Patterson, Alexander
Bible and science; Evolution
Evolution's great field. -- No case of evolution known
--No cause of evolution known. -- How evolution originated
species. -- Argument from Geology. -- Geologists
opposing it; Sir J. W. Dawson, Sir R. Murchison, Barrande.
-- Prof. Conn's admissions. -- Haeckel's admissions. --
The argument from Morphology. -- Rudimentary parts. --
The Eohippus, "Old Horse." -- Argument from classification
of species. -- No agreed classification. -- Evolution's
phantom tree. -- No changes in Egypt's 4,000 years or
prehistoric man's longer time. -- Distribution of plants
and animals. -- Argument from Embryology. -- The
three-fold argument of Evolution. -- Facts opposing
Evolution. 26
CHAPTER IV.
THE EVOLUTION OF MAN.
The vital question. -- All evolutionists agree here. -- The
two accounts of Bible and Evolution. -- Arguments
from origin of species. -- Argument from similarity
of structure. -- Argument from human characteristics. --
Rudimentary organs in man. -- The "gill-slits." -- How
the brute became man. -- Prof. Edward Clodd's
account of "The Making of a Man." -- Edward
Morris' description of primeval man. -- The Theistic
Evolutionist's Adam and how he fell. -- The Missing
Link. -- The Calaveras skull. -- Neanderthal skull. --
Haeckel's "Pithecanthropus-Erectus." -- The Colorado
monkey's skeleton. -- Croatia skeletons. -- Argument
from the brain. -- Prof. Clodd's story of how
man got his brain. -- Argument from language. -- Prof.
Max Mueller's protest. -- Argument from prehistoric
man.--Antiquity of man. -- Testimony as to
man's recent origin from Prof. George Frederick
Wright, S. R. Pattison, Prof. Friedrich Pfaff, Winchell,
Dr. J. A. Zahm.--Argument from uncivilized
races. -- Argument from history of limits of man's
history. -- Evolution and religion. -- Evolution's ethics.
-- Christian experience.--Christ and evolution. 60
CHAPTER V.
EVOLUTION UNSCIENTIFIC AND UNPHILOSOPHICAL.
Four steps necessary to proof, Facts, Classification,
Inferences, Verification. -- Fails to account for
facts. -- Has no classification. -- False in inferences
and has no verification. -- Rests on imagination. --
Tyndall's "Scientific Use of the Imagination." --
Evolution the Doctrine of Chance revamped and clothed
in scientific terms. 112
CHAPTER VI.
EVOLUTION AND THE BIBLE.
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