They tell us that 3,000,000 species of plants and animals developed
from one primordial germ, in 60,000,000 years. How many new species
should have arisen in the last 6,000 years? Now 20 doublings of the
first species of animals would make 1,048,576 species, since 2 raised
to the 20th power becomes 1,048,576. Again we will favor the
evolutionists, by omitting from the calculation all species of animals
in excess of 1,048,576. Therefore, on an average, each of the 20
doublings would take 1/20 of 60,000,000 years, or 3,000,000 years;
and, therefore, 1/2 of the entire 1,048,576 species, or 524,288
species, must have originated within the last 3,000,000 years. Can
that be the case? Certainly not.
And since the number of species must have increased in a geometrical
ratio, 2097 species must have arisen or matured within the last 6000
years--an average of one new species of animals every 3 years. How
many species actually have arisen within the last 6000 years? 2000?
200? or 2? It is not proven that _a single new species has arisen in
that time_. Not one can be named. If approximately 2000 new species
have not arisen in the last 6000 years, the evolution of species can
not possibly be true. Even Darwin says: "In spite of all the efforts
of trained observers, not one change of species into another is on
record." Sir William Dawson, the great Canadian geologist, says:
"_No case is certainly known in human experience_ where any
species of animal or plant has been so changed as to assume all the
characteristics of a new species."
Indeed, a high authority says: "Though, since the human race began,
all sorts of artificial agencies have been employed, and though there
has been the closest scrutiny, yet _not a distinctively new type of
plant or animal_, on what is called broad lines, has come into
existence."
Not a single new species has arisen in the last 6000 years when the
theory requires over 2000. Evolutionists admit this. Prof. Vernon
Kellogg, of Leland Stanford University, in his "Darwinism of Today,"
p. 18, says:--"Speaking by and large, we only tell the general truth
when we declare that no indubitable cases of species forming, or
transforming, that is, of descent, have been observed.... For my
part, it seems better to go back to the old and safe _ignoramus
standpoint_."
Prof. H. H. Newman, of Chicago University, in answer to the writer's
question, "How many new species have arisen in the last 6000 years?"
wrote this evasive reply: "I do not know how to answer your
questions.... None of us know just what a species is. [If so, how
could 3,000,000 species be counted, the number, he says,
exists?].... It is difficult to say just when a new species has arisen
from an old." He does not seem to know of a single new species within
the last 6,000 years.
The same question was asked of Dr. Osborn, of Columbia University,
N. Y. The answer by R. C. Murphy, assistant, was equally
indefinite. He wrote: "From every point of view, your short note of
Aug. 22nd raises questions, which no scientific man can possibly
answer. We have very little knowledge as to just when any particular
species of animal arose." In a later letter, he says: "I have no idea
whether the number of species which have arisen during the last 6000
years is 1 or 100,000."
Should those who "do not know" speak so confidently in favor of
evolution, or take the "old and safe _ignoramus_" standpoint, as
Prof. Kellogg suggests?
The number of existing species can not be explained upon the ground of
evolution, but only upon the ground of the creation of numerous heads
of animal and plant life, as the Scriptures declare.
We have a right to increase the pressure of the argument, by
introducing into the calculation, the total of 3,000,000 species of
plants and animals which would require 6355 new species within the
last 6000 years, or an average of more than one new species a year!
And they can not point to one new species in 6000 years, as they
confess. Dr. J. B. Warren, of the University of California, said
recently: "If the theory of evolution be true, then, during many
thousands of years, covered in whole or in part by present human
knowledge, there would certainly be known at least a few instances of
the evolution of one species from another. _No such instance is
known._"
Prof. Owen declares, "No instance of change of one species into
another has ever been recorded by man."
Prof. William Bateson, the distinguished English biologist, said, "It
is impossible for scientists longer to agree with Darwin's theory of
the origin of species. No explanation whatever has been offered to
account for the fact that, after forty years, no evidence has been
discovered to verify his genesis of species."
Although scientists have so largely discarded Darwin's theory, the
utter lack of new species in historic time, when so many are required
by _every_ theory of evolution, is a mathematical demonstration
that the whole theory of evolution must be abandoned. Q. E. D. Why do
they still insist it _may be true_?