EVOLUTION.

Evening Star, Issue 4298, 5 December 1876, Page 4

EVOLUTION.

To the Editor. Sir, —Out of the same lump of clay has been mrde a water-jug and a soup-tureen. Now, it would be grossly absurd to teach a young and unsophisticated mind that the soup-tureen was at one time a small waterjug ; that they are not separate and distinct pieces of workmanship, but that the larger and more complex was only a development of the little jug by evolution. j Equally absurd is the so-called scientific teaching that man is not a separate and dis[ tinct creation. Evolutionists can no mori reconcile their theory with the Scripture teaching of man’s creation than they can strangle truth. “Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor ? ” Had St. Paul, who thus wrote to the Romans, been an Evolutionist he would have argued, “ Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make a vessel unto dishonor ; and to alter, change, and develope that same vessel by successive gradations until it became a vessel unto honor.” “ The potter,” says Solomon, “tempering soft clay, fashioneth every vessel with much labor for otir service ; yea, of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve clean uses, and likewise also such as serve to the contrary.” “And employing his labors lewdly he maketh a vain god of the same clay, even he, which a little before* was made of earth himself, and within a little while after returneth to the same, out of the which he was taken, when his life which was lent to him shall be demanded.” Solomon does not say man was made of a monkey or of any other creature. Evolutionists are wiser than Solomon, and, forsooth, would set up an evolution god of clay, the creation of a vain pride of intellect seeking to “find out the Almighty to perfection.” Verily, pride goeth before a fall.—l am, &c., A Layman. Dunedin, December 5.