How Evolution Makes Converts

The Theory of Evolution is still a most fertile source of modern unbelief in the Bible. It is fair to say, that popular opinion to-day is moulded almost wholly by hearsay, and the efforts of evolution’s journalistic exponents. Although Darwin never regarded evolution as a science, his professed followers improperly speak of it as such. To Darwin it was at best a theory “in the highest degree probable”; “which might or might not be true”. He showed that it was based on suppositions innumerable, some so improbable that few would be inclined to admit them. He freely granted that he could give “no satisfactory answer” to many difficulties, and admitted that certain geological and other objections were “inexplicable”.¹ This is evolution’s case at its very strongest against the account of creation in Genesis! As we hope to show, Darwin and the Darwinian theory have been misrepresented, with the result, if not the intention, of discrediting the Bible account of creation in the public mind. While every year brings fresh evidences of the scientific and historic accuracy of the Scriptures, which were written at periods when the crudest notions of science were current, and the wildest cosmogonies almost universally prevalent; we learn to-day from the lips of the greatest living scientists, that Darwin’s foundations are now largely discredited. The principles that pass under the title of evolution are suspect.

As a champion of evolution, Professor Julian Huxley is in the public eye to an extent that few other writers on evolution can boast. The prestige of his name is great, and his conclusions fit the modern “urge” to act without responsibility to a Creator or a moral law. He is a leading representative instructor of the masses, but has the unscientific habit of closing his eyes to plain evidence, when it is opposed to the hypothesis he is advancing.

Professor Huxley himself puts his finger unerringly on the strange human weakness, that explains the worthlessness of scientific jaunts into the realm of conjecture and philosophy. In his preface to an anonymous book called What Darwin Really Said,² we read:

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Author: R. St. J. Yockney

Keywords: species evolved, Evolved, Evolution, Evolve, Charles Darwin, Darwin, Theory of Evolution, Darwin Theory of Evolution, Origin of life, Origin of the Universe, Huxley, Julian Huxley, Evolution of the species, geological record, Origin of the Species, age of the earth, Young earth, Fossil record, Fossil, age of the universe, carbon dating, carbon 14 dating, carbon 14, universal flood, natural selection, cosmology, Radiometric Dating

Bible reference(s): Genesis 1, Genesis 2:4, Deuteronomy 4:32, Job 38:4, Psalms 90:2, Psalms 102:25, Psalms 104:5, Pro 6:6, Proverbs 8:29, Proverbs 30:4, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 45:18, Hebrews 1:10

Source: “Misleading the Masses,” The Testimony, Vol. 3, No. 28, April/May 1933, pp. 126-8, 159-60.

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