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Mr. Talmage On Evolution

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2
Month
February
Year
1883
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' 'Evolution as Anti-Bible, Anti-Science and Anti-Cominon Sense" was the Rev. Mr. Talmage's topic at the Tabernacle; Brooklyn, recently. Mr. íalmage said in part: "There is no contest between genuino science and rnvclation. The same God which by the hands of the pröphets wrote on parchment, by the hand of the storm wrote on the rocks. Tho best scientific and philosophical apparatus are owned by Christian universities Prof. Morse, nVpVir:ctian (ravi lm tnlecrranhv: CvrilS W. Field, a Christian, swung the lighbning under the sea; James Simpson, a lecturer, and a preacher of the Gospel, disco vered the anajsthetic qualities of chloroform and drove back from surgery nine-tenths of its horror. Sciene and revelation are the base and soprano of the same tune. But between false science and revelation there is uncompromising war, and one of them must go under. The air now is full of social, platform and pulpit talk of evolution. In the first plac, evolution is up-and-down, out-and-out infidelity; it is contrary to the facts of science and it is brutalizino; in its tondencies. ' The leadingscientihc men who believe in evolntion disbelieve the sacred Scriptures. I do not mean the literary men or theologians who look at one side of it, but thosc who make it a lite study through all the realms of nature. j%.u juv nu aayn uut; liiuniji! jjii tho evolutionist accounts of the creation are the same, makes au appalling misrepresentaüon. As to Herbert Spencer, hewssnot present at the creation and me ioru Aiiiiiguij was, nnu x jiuoi iu take the divine account as to what really occurred on that occasion. Evolution is only an attempt to eject God and put him clear out of reacli. "Who made the primal germ? The only evolutionist who comes near a direct ansvr is Herbert Spencer, who says it was made by the 'great unknowable mystery. ' None will frankly say God made it. The statement that the hundreds and thousands of species of animal life started from four or five primal germs 3 flatly contradicted by the Bible and is contrair to the rery A B C of science. A species never ates anytiung but lts own species; a Bnark never comes of a whale, nor a pigeon of ;i vulture. The species do not cross over; if there is a cross, the result is a hybriil, aijd hybrids are always stepte. Agnssiz says he found in a Florida ref insects 30,000 years oíd, the same as now exist. Tho evolutionists thought they had discovered in the nebuüc the very stuff from which the worlds were made, and there was no God anywhere about the factory. But the spectroscope was discovered, and showed that thc gases were not simple, but eomposite, and had to be supplied from somewhore else. Ihe evolution theory was shatterecl. Agassiz says that such a thing is not on record. There bas been no natural progresa in the animal kingdom for thousands of years, but there hare been improvements from otter sources. Give natural evolution full swing and it will volye two hemispheres of crime, penitentiaries and brothels. The theory is an old idea - an old pagan corpse set up in a morgue. In the dinner to Herbert Spencer, the banqueters chewed beef; turkey and roast pig. According to the doctrine of evolution the banquetters were eating their own relatives, slicing up their own cousins, carving their beloved uncles, and daubing mustard and Worcestershirc sauce on their loved ones."

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