Show EVOLUTION raon AGAIN dr halls hallucination needs explanation AMERICAN sept 18 1897 EDITOR over the signature of N L nelson there appears in your issue of september what purports to be sn n answer to querys Qu Qa erys erv commil entitled dr halpa halls hallucinations 11 the writer seems to have tle tie article although the larg largi jage age used is simple plain and can hardly be c cc carue rue ruel rue to haye have more than one meaning for the sake of clearness let lat me repeat two of the questions in the article referred to does doea not this thia theor 0 evolution border on the atheistic philosophy ot prof darwin et al i e spontaneous generation if it does is it not a very danged oab doctrine to advocate in a latter lay day saints sainte institute and that too without correction in addition to the questions a request was made that you yon explain esplain what to the writer seemed like a conflict between hum human an science and revealed theology I 1 submit mr E altor that clr nels nel article neither answers the questions asked or explains the conflict referred to mr nelson says suppose you teach your son that sall all evolution eyo lution is false x itis it is likely in after life that her he will ill discover that most of the te facts collected in evolution are true and his bis conclusion father was blinded to these truths by religion this at least is the history of mormon boys taught to despise evolution indiscriminately ly when they come face to face with the subject in eastern colleges 39 the forgoing is a very strong statement to make laoj M mormon armon boys boya are not taught to delpire evolutions indiscriminately but bat the religion of their fathera beath teath s them that in the beginning beg ining G gd d created man in his own image and lik likeness like pesa ereSs and pronounced the result of his hia hobora very good also that the object or at least ona object of his hia creation was that he matil should have dow dominion over all the rest of gods creation dr hall ia a in i tj to lo say aay that mat man evolved ho fion a skin to an tube fed at each end and from qa this condition aroah to his present form the doctor omits omita to state how and from whence the skin came to exist acea it t not strike you yon mr editor that there is a difference intres int nesa 3 two views and is this difference not so great that if one is true the other must be error here let me affirm that every mormon boy who has received and does doas retain the spirit of the gospel will always whilst under its influence accept the former view because he knows that god has revealed it scientific views of man to the contrary it if any one disputes or objects to the statement that god has revealed the origin of man I 1 respectfully ally refer to genesis I 1 and 2 chapters also to luke 3rd ard chapter the latter states that man is the son of god and thus disposes of the theory of evolving from the lower grade of animal existence tae mie pearl of great price and ocher standard church works are very plain lou on the and in passing will aa say y t that ba t I 1 in n a scientific wort work entitled scientific sophisms Sophi sms by samuel wainwright D D will be found reasons worthy of the consideration of any who prefer worldly science to the religion of the mormon fathers mr editor dont get out of patience for thus intruding on your columns for I 1 consider the question wo we are discussing to be a vital one every observer will have noticed the growth in the community of a disposition to attribute to worldly wisdom and science that which should be acknowledged as coming direct from god and we note that even some of our professors are ignoring noring ia the truths of the gondol as aa their research into scientific subjects leads them away from the repealed reye aled truths of religion ligion rs mr nelson asks upon what ground query 71 assumes that the errors advanced by lec lectures tares are not corrected iu in jely will ask the gentleman if the evolution theory in regard to the physical organs of man as advanced by dr hall have ever been corrected by the officials who engaged him if they haye have when and by whom was the correction made mr belsons nelsons Nel sona sons article does not offer correction out but rather recommends its adoption for he be says nine tenths of what is taught under evolution theories is ia true as the gospel and not in conflict with it idonat I 1 do not find 1 with the B Y A my former article disproves any such inch charge yet I 1 again ask is it not dan dangerous ferous to our young that the evolution theory theora as a by dr hall should be aught t them without full explanation as aa to the I 1 he apparent conflict between it and revealed religion especially when such theories are taught under the auspices auspice of a L litter atte rd day saints institution for it was before the ou summer miner school of the B Y A that the lecture was la Is not the admonition cf st paul applicable ool col beware lest any man spoil you yon through philosophy and vain deceit after the traditions of men after the rudiments of the world and not after christ QUERY |