And yet I read only a few weeks ago, on page 124 of a little book recently issued by a prominent New York minister, the following: 

“Man has grown up in this universe gradually developing his powers and functions as responses to his environment.  If he has eyes, so the biologists assure us, it is because light waves played upon the skin and eyes came out in answer; if he has ears it is because the air waves were there first and the ears came out to hear.  Man never yet, according to the evolutionist, has developed any power save as a reality called it into being.  There would be no fins if there were no water, no wings if there were no air, no legs if there were no land.”

You see I only called your attention to forty per cent. of the absurdities; he speaks of eyes, ears, fins, wings and legs—­five.  I only called attention to eyes and legs—­two.  The evolutionist guesses himself away from God, but he only makes matters worse.  How long did the “light waves” have to play on the skin before the eyes came out?  The evolutionist is very deliberate; he is long on time.  He would certainly give the eye thousands of years, if not millions, in which to develop; but how could he be sure that the light waves played all the time in one place or played in the same place generation after generation until the development was complete?  And why did the light waves quit playing when two eyes were perfected?  Why did they not keep on playing until there were eyes all over the body?  Why do they not play to-day, so that we may see eyes in process of development?  And if the light waves created the eyes, why did they not create them strong enough to bear the light?  Why did the light waves make eyes and then make eyelids to keep the light out of the eyes?

And so with the ears.  They must have gone in “to hear” instead of out, and wasn’t it lucky that they happened to go in on opposite sides of the head instead of cater-cornered or at random?  Is it not easier to believe in a God who can make the eye, the ear, the fin, the wing, and the leg, as well as the light, the sound, the air, the water and the land?

There is such an abundance of ludicrous material that it is hard to resist the temptation to continue illustrations indefinitely, but a few more will be sufficient.  In order that you may be prepared to ridicule these pseudo-scientists who come to you with guesses instead of facts, let me give you three recent bits of evolutionary lore.

Last November I was passing through Philadelphia and read in an afternoon paper a report of an address delivered in that city by a college professor employed in extension work.  Here is an extract from the paper’s account of the speech:  “Evidence that early men climbed trees with their feet lies in the way we wear the heels of our shoes—­more at the outside.  A baby can wiggle its big toe without wiggling its other toes—­an indication that it once used its big toe in climbing trees.”  What a consolation it must be to mothers to know that the baby is not to be blamed for wiggling the big toe without wiggling the other toes.  It cannot help it, poor little thing; it is an inheritance from “the tree man,” so the evolutionists tell us.