Chapter I: Front Matter

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The Other Side of
Evolution

Its Effects and Fallacy

BY
REV. ALEXANDER PATTERSON

Director, Presbyterian Training School of Chicago

Author of
"The Greater Life and Work of Christ," "The Bible As It Is,"
"Bird's-Eye Bible Study" and "The Bible Manual."

CHICAGO
THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE ASSOCIATION
826 NORTH LA SALLE STREET

COPYRIGHT, 1903

BY
THE BIBLE INSTITUTE COLPORTAGE
ASSOCIATION OF CHICAGO

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PREFACE.

Claims of Evolution. -- Interest in subject. -- Effect
on Christian belief. -- Opinion of eminent scholars.
-- Effect on the common man. -- Evolution being accepted
on exparte evidence. -- Question too important
to be left to science. -- The average man capable of
understanding the arguments. -- The court of last
resort. vii

INTRODUCTION.

Meaning of Evolution. -- Conversational and scientific
use of the word. -- Le Conte's definition. -- Spencer's
Spheres of Evolution. -- Theistic and Atheistic
Evolution. -- The origin of man, the vital point. -- The
Bible account and Darwin's. xix

CHAPTER I.

EVOLUTION IS AN UNPROVEN THEORY.

Nearly all evolutionists admit this. -- Citations from
Tyndall, Spencer, Huxley, Prof. Conn, Whitney,
Dr. J. A. Zahm, Dr. Rudolph Schmidt, and others. --
Evolution rejected by many and opposed. -- Complaint
of Prof. Haeckel on this. -- Prof. Virchow's
opposition. -- List of scientists who do not advocate
Evolution. -- Discarded theories of the past. --
Uncertainty of scientific theories in general. 5

CHAPTER II.

THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE AND EARTH.

The four problems facing Evolution, the origin of
matter, of force, the formation and orderly adjustment
of the universe and the origin of life. -- Evolution
makes no attempt at the first two. -- Spencer admits
it is the unknowable. -- Lord Kelvin's testimony. --
Prof. George Frederick Wright on the Nebular
Hypothesis. -- The solar system unique. -- The fire-mist
and its wonderful contents. -- Failure as to
origin of life. -- Le Conte's theory. -- Testimony of
Tyndall, Wilson, Conn, against spontaneous generation. 17

CHAPTER III.

EVOLUTION OF SPECIES.

Evolution's great field. -- No case of evolution known
--No cause of evolution known. -- How evolution originated
species. -- Argument from Geology. -- Geologists
opposing it; Sir J. W. Dawson, Sir R. Murchison, Barrande.
-- Prof. Conn's admissions. -- Haeckel's admissions. --
The argument from Morphology. -- Rudimentary parts. --
The Eohippus, "Old Horse." -- Argument from classification
of species. -- No agreed classification. -- Evolution's
phantom tree. -- No changes in Egypt's 4,000 years or
prehistoric man's longer time. -- Distribution of plants
and animals. -- Argument from Embryology. -- The
three-fold argument of Evolution. -- Facts opposing
Evolution. 26