a few scientists of at least equal
eminence with those quoted above bear their testimony.

2. Testimony =Against= Evolution.

But before we quote this testimony it may be well to pause a moment for a
little information that may make it more intelligible to us.

The so-called proofs of evolution are derived from both the biological and
the geological realms of natural science.

=a.= We will consider, first, the so-called proofs taken from the
=biological= realm.

Darwin's theory was arrived at from data taken from the biological realm,
and consists of two doctrines. One is the doctrine of =natural selection=,
which was his own personal contribution to the discussion, and the other is
that of =the inheritance of acquired characters=, which he borrowed from
Lamarck. The former is the doctrine meant when pure Darwinism is referred
to.

(i). The Doctrine of Natural Selection.

Darwin himself said:

We cannot prove that a single species has changed,

and, also,

Many of the objections to the hypothesis of evolution are so
serious I can hardly reflect on them without being
staggered.

Dr. N. S. Shaler, department of geology, Harvard, says:

It begins to be evident that the Darwinian hypothesis is
still essentially unverified.... It is not yet proven that
a single species of the two or three million now inhabiting
the earth had been established solely or mainly by the
operation of natural selection.

Professor Fleischmann, of Erlangen, has said:

The Darwinian theory of descent has in the realms of nature
not a single fact to confirm it. It is not the result of
scientific research, but purely the product of the
imagination.

And John Burroughs, although an evolutionist up to his recent death, said
of Darwin, in the August, 1920, "Atlantic Monthly":

He has already been as completely shorn of his selection
doctrines as Samson was shorn of his locks.

If these statements from scientific men mean anything at all, they mean, at
least, that pure Darwinism is altogether unproven, if not that it is dead.

(ii). The Doctrine of Acquired Characters.

Spencer made this doctrine the fundamental one in his evolutionary
philosophy. Its importance was so vital to him that he said:

Close contemplation of the facts impresses me more strongly
than ever with the two alternatives--either there has been
inheritance of acquired characters, or there h