CHAPTER I. |
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Did the World Make Itself? | 7 |
Eternity of Matter. |
Disproved by its Composite Nature. |
Disproved by its Motion. |
Evolution only a big Perpetual Motion Humbug. |
Work of a Designer in the structure of the Eye. |
The Eye-Maker sees over a wide Field and far. |
The Eye-Maker sees Perfectly. |
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CHAPTER II. |
Was Your Mother a Monkey? | 34 |
The Divine Fact of Evolution Quite Different from the Atheistic Theory. |
State the Question Sharply—Why? |
Darwin's Answer. |
The Ancestral Monkey, Fish, Squirt. |
Natural Selection. |
Intended to Exclude God. |
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1. The History of the Theory. |
Indian; Phoenician; Greek; Popish; La Place's Theory; The Vestiges of Creation. |
Herbert Spencer's Contradictory Theory. |
The Evolutionists' Hell. |
Spontaneous Generation—two Theories; the Conflicting Theories of Progress; Tremaux; Lamarck; the Climatal; Darwin's; Huxley's; Parson's; Mivart's; Hyatt's; Cope's; Wallace's; the Gods; Denounced by the Princes of Science. |
Agassiz's Deliverance Against it. |
Imperfection of the Theory Eked out. |
Huxley's Protoplasm. |
Tyndall's Potency of Life in Matter. |
Buchner's Matter and Force. |
Lubbock's Origin of Civilization. |
Consequences of the Brutal Origin of Man. |
Propagandism of Atheism. |
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2. The Theory Illogical and Incoherent. |
Darwin Admits Insufficiency of Proof. |
Useless as an Explanation of Nature. |
Self-Contradictory; e. g., Protoplasm. |
Wallace's Self-Contradictions. |
Incoherency of the Denial of Design with the Assertion of Progress. |
Failure of Alleged Facts to Sustain the Theory. |
Does not Account for the Origin of Anything. |
Wild Assumptions Made by Darwin. |
Erroneous Assumption of the Tendency of Natural Selection to Improve Breeds. |
Assumption of Infinite Possibility of Progress in Finite Creatures. |
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3. An Unfounded Theory. |
No Evidence of the Facts Possible. |
None Ever Alleged, save Gulliver's. |
Domestication Disproves Transmutation—Horses; Pigeons; Dogs. |
The Egyptian Monuments. |
The Mummied Animals. |
The Geological Record. |
The Limits of Geological Time. |
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4. Embryology. |
Testimony of Scientists: |
| 1. Embryology Only Analogical. |
| 2. Embryos not all Alike. |
| 3. Four Distinct Plans of Structure. |
| 4. Germs Always True to the Breed. |
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5. Gradations of Species. |
Lamarck's Statement. |
Birth Descent not Inferable from Gradation. |
No such Imperceptible Blending in Nature. |
The Fact of the Present Existence of Distinct Species. |
Sterility of Hybrids. |
Geological Species Distinct. |
The Intermediate Forms not Found. |
The Gradation Does not Begin with the Lowest Forms. |
Four Kingdoms from the Beginning. |
The New Species Began with the Giants. |
The Gaps Fatal to the Theory. |
The Abyss Between Death and Life. |
The Gulf Between the Plant and the Animal. |
The Gaps Between Species Which will not Breed Together. |
The Gaps Between Air Breathers and Water Breathers, &c. |
The Great Gulf Between the Brute and the Man. |
Natural Selection Could not Have Deprived a Monkey of Hair. |
Nor Have Given a Human Brain. |
The Brain-Worker Contravenes Natural Selection at Every Step. |
Civilization the Contradiction of Natural Selection. |
Morality and Religion the Direct Contraries of Natural Selection. |
Tendency Immoral, Degrading, and Atheistic. |
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CHAPTER III. |
Is God Everybody, and Everybody God? | 91 |
Pantheism Described. |
An Antiquated Hindooism. |
A Jesuitical Atheism. |
Grossly Immoral. |
A Practical Atheism. |
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CHAPTER IV. |
Have We Any Need of the Bible? |
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