Even new sciences, founded by evolutionists, bear witness against
their theory. Mendel's Inheritance Law is one, as we have seen;
Biometry is another. It was proposed and advocated by Sir Francis
Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. He expected it to be a great prop
to evolution; on the other hand, it is another proof of the unity of
our race in Noah's day, and hence fatal to their theory. Biometry is
defined to be the "statistical study of variation and heredity." It
bears heavily against the great age of man.
One of the leading exponents of Biometry, Dr. C.B. Davenport,
Secretary of the Eugenics section of the American Breeders'
Association concludes that "No people of English descent are more
distantly related than thirtieth cousin, while most people are more
nearly related than that." Professor Conklin, of Princeton University,
approves this conclusion, and adds, "As a matter of fact most persons
of the same race are much more closely related than this, and
certainly _we need not go back to Adam nor even to Shem, Ham or
Japheth to find our common ancestor_." Dr. Davenport, therefore,
says that the English may find a common ancestor thirty-two
generations ago; Professor Conklin admits that we need not go further
back than Noah to find a common ancestor of all mankind. Noah,
therefore, must have been the head of the race. Evolutionists admit we
need go no farther back than Noah to find the head of the race, and
the population, as we have seen, proves the same thing, and disproves
every guess they have made of the great age of man. We have descended
from Noah and not from the brute.
This same Professor Conklin says that our race began 2,000,000 years
ago (60,000 generations). How is it possible that we must go back
sixty thousand generations for a common ancestor, when thirty-two
generations will suffice for the English, and about 200 generations
since Noah, for the whole race? If we, by the laws of biometry, can
find a common ancestor in Noah, we can not possibly go back 2,000,000
years to find one. Professor Conklin's admission refutes his claim of
2,000,000 years for man. Biometry proves that age absolutely
impossible.
If the progeny of this ape-like ancestor inter-bred for many
generations,--as certainly would have been the case--then we are not
only descended from all the monkey family, the baboon, gorilla, ape,
chimpanzee, orang-utang lemur (H. G. Wells' ancestor), mongoose, etc.,
but are also related to all their progeny. Glorious ancestors! In our
veins runs the blood of them all, as well as the blood of the most
disgusting reptiles. And yet Professor H. H. Newman, an eminent
evolutionist, in a letter to the writer, says, "The evolution idea is
an ennobling one."! But biometry saves us from such repulsive
forbears, by proving it could not be so.
Biometrists find that there is a Law of Filial Regression, or a
tendency to the normal in every species, checking the accumulation of
departures from the average, and forbidding the formation of new
species by inheritance of peculiarities. The whole tendency of the
laws of nature is against the formation of new species, so essential
to evolution. The species brings forth still "after its kind." "On
the average, extreme peculiarities of parents are less extreme in
children." "The stature of adult offspring must, on the whole, be more
mediocre than the stature of the parents." Gifted parents rarely have
children as highly gifted as themselves.
The tendency is to revert to the normal in body and mind. Nature
discourages the formation of new species, evolutionists to the
contrary notwithstanding. "Like produces like" is a universal and
unchangeable law. God has forbidden species to pass their boundaries;
and, if any individual seems to threaten to do so, by possessing
abnormal peculiarities, these are soon corrected, often in the next
generation. Even Professor H. H. Newman says, "On the whole, the
contributions of biometry to our understanding of the causes of
evolution are rather disappointing." A science that upsets evolution
is certainly disappointing to evolutionists.