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• , tv.''- PAGE TEN THE CONFLICT I By. EVOLUTION NOT SCIENCE Dr. ARTHUR I. BROWN, M.D., C.M., F.R.C S.E., Vancouver, B. C. other is based upon experiment. A personal experience in one and an accurate experiment in the other will not ■ be contra dictory; for what God reveals in His word and in His work : necessarily harmonize when both I are understood. Speculation: isome man with an hypothesis I to prove supposes he has found FEARING ADDRESS ON EVOLUTION^ — j incident occurred in Louisiana j a little while ago. Near Shreve- PRESIDENT OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION MAKES FEARLESS, GOD- (continued from page nine) used more than once in the first chapter of Genesis, the truth of which we may see every day. It is where God says that a thing shall bear ‘AFTER HIS KIND, WHOSE SEED IS IN ITSELF.’ THAT IS BEING DEMONSTRATED BEFORE OUR EYES DAILY. The per sistence of type of species, the resistance to change, is appar ent to every observer. You plant wheat and you reap wheat; you do not reap oats. You hatch turkeys from the eggs of a turkey; you do not hatch chickens, not even when a chick en hen sits on turkey eggs. Who ever got a canary bird from the egg of a pigeon? You breed dogs and you get pups; you breed dogs and cats and get you breed dogs an dcats and get a hybrid. The mule is a hybrid permitted by God for the utility of man; but the mule, whether male or female, cannot propa gate. Hybrids are invariably sterile. An official of the Brit ish Museum is quoted as saying: ‘IN ALL THIS GREAT MUS EUM THERE IS NOT A PAR TICLE OF evidence of THE TRANSMUTATION OF SPECIES.’ “God’s law, ‘after its kond,’ is so strongly in force that every one familiar with animal life recognizes its uniformity arid universality. These easily ob served things in nature are more in harmony with the tra ditional interpretation of scrip ture than are they with the theories of the evolutionist. IF TRANSMU TATION HAS BEEN THE METHOD, IF ONE SPECIES ORIGINATED FROM A DIFFERENT SPEC IES, WHY DOES NOT TRANS MUTATION GO ON BEFORE OUR EYES? Why did the Hip. pus, the boldly proclaimed pro genitor of the horse, remain a Hippus from its origin to its extinction ? Clearly because the Hippus was always a Hippus. So with man: since God made the first one he has been a man. Does someone ejaculate ‘fogy- ism?’ Then let him take the lowest man and the highest monkey and by interbreeding these near relatives produce an offspring and thus demonstrate his theory. Until that is done I must walk in the light of the Bible, experience and common sense. Elsewhere I have shown that a special creative act of God oc curred three times in the first chapter of Genesis precisely where science has the missing links: THE ORIGIN OF MAT TER, THE ORIGIN OF LIFE, AND THE ORIGIN OF SOUL. I DO NOT INTEND TO RE PEAT THAT EVIHH: TAINS THE DATA WHICH}port, road builders unearthed science confesses is j some enormous bones in a deep WANTING IN ITS SPHERE. | cut they> were making through Genesis reverently understood ^ Wide attention was at- and Geology properly taught fit bones. Geolo- , ,, , J , -t gists inspected them and pro- each other as glove and nand. ^ ^ nounced their verdict with as- One’s patience is tried by THE SUPERFICIAL AND FRE QUENTLY BLATANT TALK surance; the remains of some enormous prehistoric animal. They spoke with such finality ABOUT THE ALLEGORICAL their opinion was general- AND unscientific LANG-1 ly accepted. It was proposed to UAGE OF GENESIS; BY THE ! I'aise a fund to mount these bones for exhibition in a muse um. Unexpectedly, something transpired; an unsophisticated farmer read about the bones in the papers. One day he went to town, called upon an editor and inquired: ‘Why all this ado about those bones?’ The editor asked if he knew anything abou them. ‘Surely,’ he said, and then told that years ago Barnum and Bailey gave a circus in Shreve port, that one of their larges', elephants died, that they secured a permit from him to bury it o. his place, and that it was buriet on the hill through which tht road was cut. Exit the theorists, while laughter convulsed thi public. “We do well to recall Luther’s EXTRAVAGANT PULPIT ESTIMATES OF MEN WHO REJECTED THE BIBLE; BY THE LAUDATION OF AL LEGED SCIENTIFIC METH ODS TO THE DISPARAGE MENT OF THE FAITH OF OUR FATHERS. “Instead of emphasizing names and expounding theories which discredit the Book, we should, w'hen occasion admits, DWELL ON THE PHENOME NAL FACT THAT IN THIS RECORD WRITTEN C E N- TURIES BEFORE SCIENCE- UNVEILED THE MODERN TRUTHS OF N AT U R E THERE IS NOT ONE SCIEN TIFIC BLUNDER OR ERROR. We should rejoice that the co- • • -J 1 •* « . IIiCiuSnCGS aiiu cbrresponaences |o Ijoi u, rny are so many and so marked that |Word is settled in heaven.’ Psalm a modern scientist has confess-j Be had it written in ed that ‘if one should sketch charcoal on the walls of his X ux c: V tJi . 0 T .1 IjOIU, briefly the celestial mechanism of LaPlace, the Cosmos of Hum boldt and the latest system of chamber, and wrought in em broidery on the dress of his ser vants. Earthly changes reach not goology, no simpler and sublim-; heavenly sphere; and there er words could be found than j word of God is fixed beyond than those of Moses.’ W’'e should I touch of disturbing fingers. cling to the Bible on the very first page of which the cardinal truths of our faith are indeli bly written; the existence, unity, personality, wisdom, .power, government, and goodness of God; the gradual consecutive cumulative, and harmonious processes of nature; the origin, free agency, mission, soyerign- ty and immortality of man. We should hold with tenacious faith •;he Book of books, the first sen tence of which lays the axe to the root of the tree of atheism by announcing God; of polythe ism by declaring His oneness; of pantheism by declaring His personality and transcendence; of deism by declaring His ac tivity and government; of ag nosticism by positive state ments of knowledge; of mater ialism by affirming the ci'eation of matter and the supremacy of spirit; and of rationalism by presenting the ultimate reli gious truth as a revelation. “IT IS NOT FAIR TO SAY THAT THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE ARE AT WAR. THE OUTCRY OF HOSTILITY IS OCCASIONED BY UNDERS.TA N D I N G Modern science has upset the no tions of centuries but it is un able to prove the testimony of Bible to be false. In honesty it should admit concord between ages of the rocks and in the ages of the .rock and in the Rock of Ages. “We also do well to recall that the Lord of Life, the One who broke the bands of the grave and crushed the skull of death, put His imprimatur on the Old Testament. His own words are: ‘For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for Moses wrote of me.’ John 5: 46; ‘For as Jonah was three NITE PERIOD OF TIME i CONFIRMING MORE (COMPARE GEN 2- 4- P^ TRUTHS (COMPARE GEN. 2. 4, Pb.; ^haT HAVE COME DOWN 95: 8; JOHN 8: 56). IT IS ^ FROM ON HIGH AND ARE MARVELOUS THAT IN THE i CONTAINED IN THE SAC- SAME ACCOUNT THE DAY!RED WRITINGS:’ BEGINS WITH EVENING, sacred page AND CHEMICAL LIGHT PRe’ CEDES THE APPEARANCE OF THE SUN JUST AS GE- Majestic like the sun; It gives but to every age. It gives but borrows none. OLOGY TEACHES THAT THU I * ^ fortress which LIGHT WAS COSMT- IT IS MARVELOUS THOUGH FIRST CAL. THAT, CHUS FIXED THE NUM BER OF STARS AT 1,022, AND PTOLEMY AT 1,026, TWENTY TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE GALILEO TURNED THE TELESCOPE ON THE HEAVENS AND DIS CLOSED INNUMER ABLE STARS, JEREMIAH SAID: ‘THE HOST OF HEAVEN CANNOT BE NUMBERED,’ IT IS MARVELOUS THAT, SEVER A L THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE COPERNI CUS, KEPLER, AND GAL ILEO TAUGHT THE TRUE LAW OF THE SOLAR SYS TEM, JOB TAUGHT THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT (26:7) AND THAT THE MOVE MENTS OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES DO NOT VARY (38: 12). IT IS MARVELOUS THAT, THOUGH PHILOSO PHERS LIKE ARISTOTLE AND BACON DID NOT BE LIEVE THE AIR HAD WEIGHT AND THIRTY CEN TURIES BEFORE THE DIS COVERY THAT IT DID, THE OLDEST BOOK IN THE BI BLE SHOULD SAY: ‘TO MAKE THE WEIGHT FOR THE WINDS (ATMOS- PHEREl. JOB. 28:25. IT IS MARVELOUS THAT, LONG BEFORE REDFIELD AN NOUNCED HIS THEORY OF STORMS SHOWING THAT THEY WERE NOT LAW LESS, SOLOMON SHOULD SAY SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME THING, ECCLES. 1:6. IT IS MARVELOUS THAT, CENTURIES BEFORE UNIN SPIRED MAN DISCOVERED THE LAW OF EVAPORA TION AND EXPLAIN E D HOW THE WATERS WHICH FLOW TO THE SEA DO NOT OVERFLOW BUT RETURN IN VAPOR TO WATER THE LAND, THE BIBLE SHOULD STATE THE FACT EXPLICITLY: ‘ALL THE RIVERS RUN INTO THE SEA; YET THE SEA IS NOT FULL; UNTO THE PLACE FROM WHENCE THE RIV ERS CAME, THITHER THEY RETURN AGAIN.’ ECCLES 1:7. IT IS MARVELOUS THAT TWENTY-SI?; CEN TURIES BEFORE HARVEY has withstood every attack from Celsus to Percy Stickney Grant. HIPPAR- have hurled against it the paper w'ads of their own fanci ful theories ignited from their own powder. There it stands like Jackson at Manassas, ‘a stone wall;’ like Gibraltar at whose base the waves bi^eak in fury. The Bible is an anvil up on which infidels have beaten and broken their hammers. ‘Last eve I stood beside the blacksmit ’s door And heard the anvil ring th* vesper chime; Then looking in, I saw upon the floor Old hammers worn with beat ing years of time. “How many anvils have you had,’’ said I, “To wear and batter these hammers so?” “Only one,” said he, “the anvil Wears the hammers out, you know.” days and three nights in the DISCOVERED THE CIRCUL- whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.’ Matt. 12.40; ‘For verily I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled.’ Matt 5: 18. Christ not only put His stamp upon the Old Testament, He pi'O. authenticated the New Testa- jment. John 16; 12«15. One ' cannot destroy the validity of M I g-1 the Bible without impeaching A N D i auhority of Christ. SPECULATION, Misunder- ‘The Bible is the world’s ATION OF THE BLOOD THE BIBLE SHOULD, IN A POE- T I C DESCRIPT ION OF DEATH, DESCRIBE THE SPINAL MARROW (THE SILVER CORD), THE SKULL WHICH ENCLOSES THE BRAIN" (THE GOLDEN BOWL), THE LUNGS (THE PITCHER AT THE FOUN TAIN), THE HEART (THE WHEEL AT THE CISTERN) —A ‘WHEEL PUMPING UP THROUGH ANOTHER.’ EC- CES. 12: 6f. SO MARVEL OUS ARE THESE AND It standing: there is an essential most marvelous book. The more OTHER FACTS THAT SO difference between the ground d- is studied the more marvel- COMPETENT AN AUTHOR- HERE, BUT IT IS SIG-1 of evangelical knowledge and j ous it appears. IT IS MARVEL - ITY AS SIR JOHN HERSCH- NIFICANT THAT A CHAP-! the ground of scientific know-;OUS THAT IT USED IN THE EL EXPRESSED THE OPIN- TER WRITTEN CENTURIES DEFCRE THE DISCOVERIES ledge. They represent two hem- \ CREATION ispheres of the world truth. One WORD FOR ACCOUNT -4 ION ‘ALL HUMAN DISCOV- DAY (YOM) ERIES SEEM TO BE MADE OF MODERN SCIENCE CON-| is based upon experience,, the . WHICH MEANS AN INDEFI- ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE And so, I thought, the anvil of God’s word For ages skeptics’ blows have beat upon. And though the sound of fall ing blows was heard, The anvil is unhurt—the hammers gone.’ “THE BIBLE IS A BRIDGE SPANNING THE DEEP RIV ER OF LIFE, BUILT OF STEEL AND CONCRETE BY INSPIRED WORKMEN. THE FOAMING FLOODS HAVE NEVER SHAKEN ITS ADA MANTINE FOUNDATION. IT HAS NEVER NEEDED RE PAIR AND NO ONE NEED’ DOUBT ITS SECURITY. ON ITS STONE FLOOR, WORN SMOOTH BY THE FEET OF DEVOUT PILGRIMS, M[IL- LIONS HAVE CROSSED ON TO GLORY AND BY IT WE MUST CROSS OVER IF WE WOULD WALK WITH SAFE TY. “The Bible is a flower gard en. Its lessons are fresher than the unmelted dew on the morn ing rose. Its truths are sweeter than the honey of Hymettus. Christian, go learn of the bee. It lights and lingers upon the flower where the sweet juices are stored ‘in a flask fairer than alabaster.’ It sucks the honey and needs no other proof that the flowercup holds the nectar. It fills its sack and spreads its heavy laden wings for its return flight to the hive to make food for .the young and sweets for man. Go thou and do likewise. Extract the nec tar from the blossoms which bloom on every page of Holy Writ. Store the symmetrical cells of memory and heart with the treasures of God’s truth and impart these riches to jthers. Find thy delight in patient, prayerful penetration of God’s Word and thy duty in conveying its truths to those who have them not. Say with the Psalmist: TIgw sweet are thy words to my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my (continued on page eelven)
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