Fallacies of Evolution: A Series of Three Lectures

by John D. Charles

Publisher:

Mennonite Publishing

, 1917

Overview

This short pamphlet contains three lectures given to the student body of Hesston Academy and Bible School in 1916. Its mission is to establish and confirm the student in the faith of the truth of the Bible along the line that it is most frequently attacked by scholars and ripened intellectuality, and at the same time give correct information on questions of science relative to life and its development.

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Key Features

• Contains three lectures from Hesston Academy and Bible School
• Analyzes biblical scrutiny and offers apologetical counterpoints
• Provides a biblical perspective on the origins of life and its development

Contents

• Lecture I: The Question at Issue
  • Definitions
  • Indictment
  • Verdict of Scholarship
• Lecture II: Studies in Science
  • The Origin of Life
    • Spontaneous Generation
    • Life Depends on Life
    • The Cell Is Complex
  • The Evolution of Species
    • Definition of Species
    • No Transmutation of Species
    • Crossing the Species
    • Variation of Species
    • The Mutation Theory and Heredity
    • Argument from Geology
    • The Missing Link
    • Pithecanthropus Erectus
    • The Colorado Specimen
    • Skulls
    • Likenesses
    • Rudiments
    • Natural Selection and Adaptations
    • Degeneration
    • Persistence
• Lecture III: The Bible and Evolution
  • Origin of Life
  • The Origin of Man
  • Savagery—Degeneration
  • Jesus Christ

Top Highlights

“simply a rehash of the old teachings of chance garbed in scientific terms” (Page 11)

“The Scriptures preclude any other doctrine than that of an absolute creation of all things by the direct act of the Divine will. Before this truth all the errors of pantheism, polytheism, dualism, materialism, atheism, and spiritualism fall.” (Page 19)

“any one who did not fall in line with the theory was branded unphilosophic, unscientific and unscholarly.” (Page 10)

“Its bibliography alone is of great value. Moreover, it provides interesting and instructive re” (Pages 3–4)

“Evolution is not accepted by all scientists and much less by all scholars” (Page 11)

Product Details

• Title: Fallacies of Evolution: A Series of Three Lectures
• Author: John D. Charles
• Publisher: Mennonite Publishing House
• Publication Date: 1917
• Pages: 48

About John D. Charles

John Denlinger Charles (1878–1923) was educated at Franklin and Marshall College and Columbia University where he earned his MA in 1914. He served as secretary on the committee for revision of Bible Doctrine and was the author of Present Day Religions, also published by the Mennonite Publishing House.