EVOLUTION
The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible and are so
learned that they believe that the world had no Maker, and that men are only
monkeys with their tails rubbed off. PP84
The age is getting worse and worse, and man, by a process of evolution, is evolving a
devil. WWi136
You cannot convince the simplest boy in the street that somehow or other he was
developed from an oyster, or some creature inferior to that, and yet these profound
thinkers bow down to such a belief as this. 1032.58
Speak of evolution,—here it is,—“When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and
sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.” Darkness never begets light, filth
never creates purity, hell never yields heaven, and depravity never produces grace.
1829.146
Within fifty years children in the school will read of extraordinary popular delusions,
and this will be mentioned as one of the most absurd of them.
1911.403
If God’s word be true, evolution is a lie. 1911.403
The philosophy now in vogue labours to shut God out of his own creation. They
inform us that by some means this world and all that is therein were evolved. Even
this will not long content the men of progress: they care nothing for evolution in
itself, but only so far as it may serve their purpose of escaping from the thought of
God. 1919.495
If those who believed in evolution said their prayers rightly, they would begin them
with, “Our Father, which art up a tree.” 2056.663
Notwithstanding all that great men may say about what they evolve from their own
consciousness, I think that the only thing a man can evolve from his own
consciousness is folly and sin; for there is nothing else there. 2251.171
They will speak, amid roars of laughter, of evolution; and the day will come, when
there will not be a child but will look upon it as being the most foolish notion that
ever crossed the human mind. 2255.221
These men have such wonderful theories that it really seems surprising that they do
not themselves make a few worlds, since they profess to have found out so many
ways of making them. 2765.65