EVOLUTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4182, 22 July 1876, Page 2

EVOLUTION.

To the Editor. Sib,—lt doeß seem to me at least somewhat extraordinary to be told that the Book of Genesis was written in the manner of a book for children, owing to the savage condition of those for whom it was primarily intended, and doss not, therefore, contain a faithful (or literal) account of the Creation. So Mr Fitchett thinks. From alt MI can gather from the Bible itself or from Bible history, I should consider the ancient Jews just as capable of understanding an explanation of the nature and origin of the Universe :>$ Mr Fitchett or myself. I am inclined to think many of thempoesessedmore knowledge of the right kind than some of ottr teachers of the present day. Surely the writings of Moses are not the writings of a savage, and Christ himself quoted from Genesis (without alteration) to a civilised community. Why did he not explain matters then Y • Mr Fitchett's explanation is a mere assumption, and is wholly unwarrantable; But this mode of explanation is quite in keeping with the docrine of Evolution— a doctrine which has not one single well-established fact to support it. It is founded on and built up by suppositions and assumptions. Stripped of these, it has neither foundation, walls, nor roof. Facts, the most undeniable; difficulties the most insuperable, have been met and overcome by groundless suppositions. Evolutionists know this perfectly well. I sincerely hope that none of those who have put their trust in God's eternal and unchangeable word, and in him who came to seek and to save the lost, will give it any countenance, or be so far deceived as to suppose that the teachings of the Bible can be - reconciled with a dogma so irrational and .revolting. I will conclude this letttr by quoting two extracts from the story of " Earth and Man," by Principal Dawson, one of America's best authorities on scientific subjects. He says:—"Tfie Evolutionist doctrine is itself one of the strangest phenomena of humanity. It existed, and most naturally, in the oldest philosophy and poetry in con:nection with the crudest and most uncritical attempts of the human mind to grasp the system Nature; but that in our own day a system. destitute of any shadow of proof, aud supported merely by vague analogies and figures of speech and by tire arbitrary and artificial coherence of its own parts, should bo accepted as philo aphy and should find able supportevs to string on its thread of hypothesis our vast and weighty" Btorcs of knowledge is surpassingly strange." Again, he says "that men of. thought and culture should advocate such: a pWlowpby argues either • strange mental

hallucination or that the higher spiritual nature is wholly quenched within them. 11 is one of the saddest of the many sad spectacles which our age presents.—l am, &a., Anti-Evoltjtionist. Roslyn, July IS.

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