August 7

On 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)