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The Giddings , Tex as, T im es & News - T hursd ay. May 20, 1971 - Pa ge 3
Bible
(FROM PAGE TWO)
way but were told in this simple
way for us to easily understand.
Friends, it’s time that we
quit trying to defend ourself
and making excuses for things
written in the Bible. Rather,
we need to start proving that
what we read in the Bible is
true.
What about evolution. Does it
disprove the Bible account of
creation?
First of all, we need to realize
that evolution IS NOT fact. It
is only THEORY -- which is
an unproved idea.
Evolution has become a mod-
ern religion. It’s taught in high
schools and colleges as PURE
FACT. And to stand up and
speak of evolution in a doubt-
ful and challenging manner is a
kind of sacrilegious, scientific
BLASPHEMY in the eyes of its
faithful believers. .. .
Actually, evolution is a
FALSE RELIGION -- unproved,
full of flaws, carelessly as-
sumed hypotheses, missingevi-
dence. , .
There are many laymen who
believe they can RECONCILE
evolution WITH the Bible, and
religion. But instead of AGREE-
ING with evolution and thereby
disproving the Bible account,
they should have been busy
DISPROVING the “theory” of
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evolution — and labeling it just
that.
Evolutionists say human life
evolved by CHANCE — there
was no divine plan — it just
happened. But if we are to
believe that mankind (the only
living creature with the ability
to think, reason and create)
just evolved and developed from
sea slime, shouldn’t you
WONDER about WHAT you are,
WHY you are here, WHERE
you came from and WHERE you
are going? . .
Evolutionists expect people to
treat the theory of evolution
with deep respect, awe and
admiration, but they see nothing
wrong with treating the Biblical
account of creation and God
Himself with something less
than respect. .
To DOUBT evolution is to
doubt that our god-like scien-
tists have found all the answers
to the origin of life. After all,
avowed evolutionists say to you,
if you are to accept their theor-
ies, you HAVE NO GOD. Your
belief in any Creator Being be-
longs to that dark era of an-
cient times of superstition,
witchcraft and voodoo.
If the evolutionists are cor-
rect, then you have no spiritual
makeup, no life after death,
and no hope beyond this tem-
poral physical existence. And
then there is no moral guide
for human conduct.
If you have been guilty
trying to reconcile athiestic
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from simple begin-
ent es-
evolution with God's creation,
listen to just one of many,
many statements made by lead-
ing evolutionists:
"‘Practically all enlightened
people have come to accept the
idea of man’s origin by descent
from lower animals, even
though they may be quite igno-
rant of the evidence for it or
the stages in the slow pro-
gression “‘ re he
nings to mankind’s pres
tate» (James H. Me Gregor,
General Anthropology).
And this statement: “Never
again can a majority of the
best informed minds of any
advanced culture give support
or countenance to a belief in
the supernatural" (The Unleas-
ing of Evolutionary Thought, by
Oscar Riddle). ,
But has science carefully
weighed the “supernatural” a-
gainst the Bible account of crea-
tion -- and found it wanting?
No, few if any have even ser-
iously looked into it. They have
BLIND FAITH in unprovedevo-
Joyce Graduates With
Distinction At A&M
John A. Joyce of Giddings
was one of 210 students gra-
duating with distinction this
spring from Texas A&M Uni-
versity, announced Registrar
Robert A. Lacey.
Students graduating with dis-
tinction must have completed
their undergraduate careers
with at least a 3.25 grade point
ratio, on a 4.0 system.
Texas A&M’s graduating
class included 1,511 students.
Joyce, a wildlife science ma-
jor, is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur L. Joyce,Rt. 1,Giddings.
MRS. FRANCES PLASEK
VISITING IN GIDDINGS ,
Mrs. Frances Plasek of Dal-
las is spending a few weeks in
Giddings with her daughter and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Matej-
cek, Dale and Billy.
having their minds prepared
to believe they will be seeing
. .. “proof” of PROGRESSION con-
lumon of FIRST carefully cerning evolution -- rather than
Instead POSSIBILITY similarity of DESIGN. They are
ontartspeefai" creation by God, given NO ALTERNATIVES, our
and finding it lacking in some Now let s begin to open our
point "the entire approach to mind to see if we can cast any
the study was preconditioned to DOUBTS on evolution instead
OMIT the idea of special crea- of trying to disprove the Bible,
i p If evolution happened, how did
Notice this statement: “In it? When specific creaturesare
science one should NEVER ac- singled out, and we ask specific,
cent a metaphysical explanation intelligent questions concerning
if a physical explanation is “evolution” we find time and
possible, or indeed, conceiv- again that evolution is utterly
able” (This View of Life by IMPOSSIBLE.
George Gaylord Simpson). One of the most common-
Also, remember that the place, yet truly marvelous little
“authorities” of evolution don’t creatures around us is the honey
attempt to straddle the fence bee. Bees are just one example
of evolution and the first chap- of a creature that COULD NOT
ter of Genesis. Julian Huxley have evolved. , w
has said, “I think we can dis- (Continued Next Week)
miss entirely all idea of a Buddy Preuss
supernatural designer being
responsible for the evolutionary
process. God has been forced
to abdicate his kingdom sec-
tion by section.”
Many laymen are under the
impression that evolutionists
are UNIFIED in their accep-
tance of evolutionary theory.
This is not so.
From the Journal of the Am-
erican Scientific Affiliation, we
read: “As we know, there is
a GREAT DIVERGENCE ofopi-
nion among biologists, not only
about the causes of evolution but
even about the actualprocess.’’
Mr. Huxley himself said, “we
need not deny the fact of evolu-
tion because we HAVE NOT YET
discovered the machinery.”
To ASSUME that human life,
and animals and plants for that
matter, evolved is like finding
a fine Swiss watch laying on
the ground while walking in the
woods and saying, "Isn’t it
marvelous how this watch just
evolved out of the dirt, leaves
and other matter on the ground.’
Yet students in college are
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