EVOLUTION
NOT A FACT
GOD AND MAN
MAN AND MONKEY
The Bible A Fact
The Bible and Science
Agree,—So Far As
Science Makes Possible
A Fact
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BY REV. JOHN W. NORRIS
A. M, E. Church
Baltimore, Maryland
EVOLUTION
NOT A FACT
GOD AND MAN
MAN AND MONKEY
The Bible A Fact
The Bible and Science
Agree,—So Far As
Science Makes Possible
A Fact
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BY REV. JOHN W. NORRIS
A. M, E. Church
Baltimore, Maryland
HE BIBLE AND Evolution do not agree. They
do not agree because the Bible is a fact and Evolu¬
tion is not a fact. Evolution is a theory. A theory is a
plan or scheme based on principles such as seems to
agree with facts or may not agree. Theory is an opea
field of speculation. The ablest minds have been out in
that endless field of speculation. They have in thousands
of years found a few things they call facts. The Bible
was not found out there in those speculative fields ibut
direct from the Word of God. Hence, the Bible
comes to us along a path of inspiration. This
Holy Book brings such truths as happened when there
was not a man on earth. It is supposed that Moses, the
Biblical historian, wrote that first Chapter in the Book
of Genesis twenty-three hundred and sixty nine years
after Adam's birth, which; shows that while he wrote,
Gcd was his dictator. • This fact is in keeping with a
certain Biblical statement—that the Holy Men of old
only spake and wrote as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost.
Evolution is not a fact—only a theory. The connect¬
ing link between man and monkey is only a theory and
not a fact. But notice, God is a fact, accepted by all
nations on the earth, both civilized and heathenish. Eter¬
nity is a fact; space is a fact; truth and love are facts
unchanged since God is unchanged and God is truth and
love. God, himself, is a fixture,—eternity is a fixture,
■—space is a fixture,—truth is a fixture and love is a fix¬
ture. These all are unchanged. Now notice, God is
eternity, and space is eternity; all you see is eternity and
all you do not see and cannot see is eternity. Why? All
you see and do not see is indestructible,—you cannot
destroy anything, only the form; but not the substance.
There is no such/ thing as space making^ as some
would have it. When was it made? Space is eternity.
When was eternity made? Now let us notice the term
Evolution.
The fact or process of evolving or the state of being
evolved; development or growth. The fact in evolution
goes no farther than; the definition of the tetfm. For
evolution is not a fact. Evolution cannot mean any more
than expansion. Nothing can go beyond its kind. Every¬
thing God created and made was created and made after
his or their kind. Now, there are no connecting links
between the kinds as all things were formed out of the
nebula. God made no old forms of life to be developed
intc* new forms of life after he closed up hisi creative
and working or making days. When he finished, his
work was complete. He said it was good. When God
made the monkey, if man had to come from the monkey,
neither the man or the monkey would have been com¬
plete. Therefore, in this incotaplete condition how could
it be good? As a chicken was and is hatched out of an
egg, so was this globe and trillions of other globes hatched
out of the water and thick darkness. Just as many as
there are globes and big suns or centers,—all formed out
of the endless Nebula. The Nebula is a fixture and all
that was in it. The chicken was and is a fixture in the
egg with lines drawn—subject to expansion according to
its kind or after its kind as the Bible states. So was
everything created in all the worlds and on all the globes.
This and all other globes were born out of the water,
born out of life, for water is life. Live createures make
the water, if it were not for them there would be no life.
If it werenotf orthem there would be no water. Water
is life. Without water we would all die; everything on
the earth would die. That which is called life, cells or
cell, is not the beginning of life. Life always was. There
has never been a time when life did not exist. There
has never been a time when there was no God. There
has never been a time when there was no water. There
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is water on trillion and trillion and trillions of globes.
If not so, then there would be no life on them. Have
you read the first chapter in the book of Genesis? Have
you noticed the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth
days? Have you noticed that God created and made
creatures suited to each day and then closed his creative
act at the end of each day? In this way nothing could
pass any more than menfcan pass from the earth to Mars.
There is no doubt that conditions and creatures are the
same on all these trillions and trillions of globes, because
they were all formed out of the same Nebula. So as the
Nebula is endless, so are the globes. Man has lived on all
of the globes, not only billions of years but trillions and
trillions of years; sohas the monkey and the dog and horse
and lion and other animals. Will you please find a place
for evolution?
This earth of ours is an old globe, like trillions of
years old. I have before me the picture of an animal
that lived on this globe eighteen million years ago. There
will be some found that lived on this globei thirty-six
million years ago. How long was this globe making a
'home for viling creatures? God has sid more than once
in the Bible, "let us go down". Everything God made
is a fixture. How can a fixture evolve ? There is no
such thing as changing a fixture. What he does stands
fast. God made a man—he did not make a white man,
nor a yellow man, nor a black man, nor a brown man,
nor a red man—He made a man; regardless of colors,
God made a man. The man that God made was a dusty
man—a dusty man lived in the old world before the
deluge. A dusty man went into the Ark, but no other
color of man went into1 the Ark. Only one] language
went in and came out of the Ark. The Bible informs us
that man was made of of the dust but that book tells us
nothing about the monkey as to how it was made. All the
nations on this globe and the nations on all other globes
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were the product of one man on their respective globes
and there are trillions of globes. Now if man lived on
this earth trillions of years, where did he evolve from?
What is eternity Eternity is that which is without an
end. It is endless. Well, man is eternity; man is end¬
less in dust and spirit,—you cannot destroy neither the
dust nor spirit. You can destroy the form of anything
but you cannot destroy the substance; the Nelbula you
cannot destroy. All things were formed from the Nebula
and you cannot destroy it. Mr. Darwin was looking for
the beginning of life and he found a cell in which he
thought life begun. There was life before there was a
cell. Life in all things was the product of the Word of
God. Mr. Darwin was a man of great mind, but God
was of Greater Mind God was unchangeable and all he
made was unchangeable as to kind. Adam named every¬
thing; whatever Adam called them that was their or its
name. Who named these things or creatures which
evolved from those old things? The things which Adam
named ? Wtell, Adam named everything or creature,
then who named Adam ? God named Adam. While
man is an animal he is, nevertheless, a special piece of
workmanship. He is favored in a way other animals are
not. Man has no tail but he has a brain case. The
lower order of animals have tails but no brain case; they
are not thinkers—the man animal is a thinker. There is
no connecting link between the lower animal with a tail
and the upper animal without a tail. There is no con¬
necting link between the lower animal without brains and
the upper animal with' brains. Please find me a link.
I can find none. God moved the man far from the
lower order of animal life when he made him.
God placed the man between the lower creation and the
angels. Man is a little lower than the angels and
above the lower order of animal life. Everything above
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man he was to fear,—and everything below man was to
fear him. Everything above the man was to be his mas¬
ter and everything below the man the man was to master
and also master himself. No man has ever been mastered
by roan,—man cannot be mastered, never was mastered
and never will be mastered. No slave was ever mastered,
they had a master but they were never mastered. If so,
please tell me when.
Now fro'm what did this man evolve? Not a mon¬
key, for the monkey was among the things and creatures
mastered by the man. Man was a special creation to rule
all other creatures. Slavery was wrong because man was
never made to be a slave. No nation on earth ever ruled
.ts slaves only by force. -This shows th'at the man was
made a special brain case creature. He was given a brain
case so he would be able to rule himself and all other
created creatures. We hear some talk of mental evolu¬
tion or mental unfolding. If such is a fact it must begin
in the brain case of the man. Now since it must begin
in the brain case, I would prefer to call it mental expan¬
sion. The measurement of the brain case must be con¬
sidered. The larger the brain case the more room has
the mind to operate since the mind is always larger than
the brain case. The mind enters the braini case as it
expands. This is why we send the brain case animal to
school while young. Now it must be remembered that
the mind in the brain case is productive,—we call it men¬
tal production, because there are at all times something
new coming from the mind through the brain case. I
call this mental conception and mental birth in the brain
case womb. There is no other animal on this globe or
any other globe so equipped. In no sense are there any
connecting links below the man that would link hi'm on to
other animals.
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