CORRESPONDENCE

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 7

CORRESPONDENCE

f EVOLUTION OR CREATION \To the Editor). Sir,—Regarding evolution, and the co-called missing link, J notice that every time a. skull is found that re- ’ sembles both ape and man (which is not often) those who- beieve in the • theory, a belief that still remains a theory and nothing more, they make much of it, and say ; There you are, 1 this is evidence to prove it. These people do not allow for a freak of nature or a throw back as we sometimes sal] it, or for other vital , matters that do not support their I theory.

I We are definitely the result of evolution or creation. There is no mistake about that. It is also admitted we can not be the result of both. We have either evolved to our present position, or we have been created human beings, hut before I could consider the theory I would want to know what we are going to do with the facts. A few days ago, I saw a man with a head that truly resembled a gorilla far more than it resembled a man. j could hardly believe by eyes, to tell you the truth, for I have nevert seen anything like it before. The features and head were more like a gorilla than anything else. The only difference was that it did not have hair on it. The Ibdttom Jaw jwas huge; the mouth, wide with a down-ward curve ; the upper lip corresponded with the bottom jaw, the nose was short and protruding at the bottom ; the eyes were ; deep set and penetrating; the forehead was full over the eyes and sloping badk excessively with no upper region to it ; tile hair was black, ana the skin a very dark brown. Now, if the skull of this individual is dug up in two thousand years trine, if the theory then still remains, it will undoubtedly be used to confirm the tlieoi’v of the missing link. T think, however, that at that date, the theory will then be dead and buried also, for many reasons, T will vivo you two, and it will he found that these alone will cause much thought for you "ho are prepared to think about it from other angles.

For instance, if there is evolution;

it is a process, a continuous process: thus must be admitted. If then it is continuous, and if we started fom the ape as is claimed, there should be no living specimens behind the present human stages of progress, but millions of dead ones instead of a very few. For example, if we have evolved from the ape, and the period of progress is, sav, two million years, for testing sake, one million years hack wo would bo at the half-way stage between . the ape and man; therefore, if evolution is the correct process and not creation, trie

craves at that period should provide millions of specimens of the half-way stage, just as to-day will provide hundreds of millions of specimens of the present day stages a million vears hence if evolution is tae

process. From another angle, we have the situation that if we have evolved from the ape, the nne has also evolved from somethin?, and as the process is continuous all the stages of prowess ->’nst hr» in existauce, for we have the ape to-day. If then, we have the ape to-day, and no living specimens of the in-between stages between the ape and man, where is the evidence, because if flic process of evolution i:: a realty, we should have in existence, millions of living as well as dead specimens of the various stages. Tin* earth would have provided the dead evidence in e»>un'Fnre long before tins had it been there fo produce. Therefore, if it is not in, or on the earth, where is it? This matter does not end here for there is another side to it. It is this—lf we are the result of evolution we are not the result of creation, as the two processes are the opposite to one ■•pother, which would mean (ha* rric forty weatest historians the world has ever known have lied to us. Not only lied to us. but put over such a eigantie deception that no other man or men have since been able to put over anyihing like it.

Xmv. T ask. can w imagine thal fiion nf tlii'ir t>**■»«’. ami in-len-vity doimr siwh n das+ardlv thin**. fn mo. n’*d T +hink to nil intellijrom peoples who will coris'der this nsry-H fnirlv. tho tlmorrlu. ;« nir-o’-moiVnl-10. ■vet., there is the position ■ jf v-o l>efiove m evolution. * vr * dold'o**atelv I***hove that these rnisrhtv m*m nf old have lied to ns. hoc-mien thnv *"st ns del*-,-.|y .n-Rort that the w-'"]il with nil the li f, i tlmronn t.-nc Thorn is r*o nneertnin+v about the”- dnpb'rnTinn ; no spcli thin", as. T tb : nf- about it ; no tlieo'-v ; and **o son roll for ovidni'oi to nfol'e it. Thoy niv.iicn* tho rtoolnrations. and n'-nduon the evidence hr lKaio tho Ahmkrhtv no\vo.- n- nv : i noi-iod of 1 *>o*l .--.o ..Q . Poo Id thoy h»yo nßod tho \ lni'trhty oon'or if th . .Alo-irrl -1- v h-d not ri:.-0..t,.d thoin ”> "lilt +hnv Said a»'d d<' rl "'-''d On tho other haijd, we find tint thi>so r-oa* merit stnt-f./l tlv-’r life* to tile fan) that what thev said was the truth Here again we are fared with the «I nest ion. would they stake their life to a declaration, and in some cas«-, crive their life for it if it were not true? Tt ran safely be said that no sane man would say what they saut and promise what they promised, even if th*'" n w-'s the slightest donht about :t. How then, can we disbelieve forty 'ii them, who declare that the Bible *-e«ards the fart tlmt wo were created is the word of Cod, the hook that man and woman. T am etc., H. If. Ilokitika, Sept, 19, 1937.