Some would have us believe there is no God; or that matter is eternal;
or that matter was evolved out of nothing; or that all things came by
chance; or that there is nothing but matter,--no God, no spirit, no
mind, no soul.
Some would have us believe that God created nebulous matter, and then
ceased to control the universe; that life developed spontaneously;
that species developed by chance, or natural selection, or by a
powerless "law," from one primordial germ. Others say that all the
countless exhibitions of design by a matchless Intelligence, are to be
explained by a causo-mechanical theory, which means the theory of
blind unintelligent chance, without purpose or design or interference
of God. Some say that God may have created one germ or at most 4 or 5,
and that 3,000,000 species of plants and animals developed from this
microscopic beginning. We are asked to believe that some plants became
animals, or some animals became plants, or that all plants and animals
came from the one germ they allowed God to create. They say that all
species developed by growth, but do not explain why we still have the
one-celled amoeba, the microscopic bacilli of plant life, and the
microscopic species of animal life. Many geologic species are largest
at the beginning; many ancient animals were much larger than their
successors; and the reptilian age was noted for animals of enormous
size. Yet they want us to believe that growth is universal.
They ask us to believe, without proof, that some marine animals
evoluted into amphibians, some amphibians became reptiles, some
reptiles developed hair and became mammals, and some reptiles
developed feathers and wings and became birds; some mammals became
monkeys, and some monkeys became men. For evidence of this, there is
not a single connecting link to show the transformation. Geology
furnishes no fossils of the millions and billions of connecting links
that must have existed. For the scheme would require not only
millions of links between man and the monkey, but also millions
between each of the 8 great changes from matter to man. Yet we are
asked to accept these fantastic and impossible speculations as
"science," though it lead to infidelity and atheism and bolshevism and
anarchy and chaos, wreck religion, make havoc of the church, and send
countless souls to the lost world. What wonder that the soul recoils
with horror from such an atheistic theory.