nce and an open field for several
decades. What is the present situation of the controversy? The friends
of the Bible and of old-fashioned Christianity need to know the real
facts of the present situation.

Every now and then the news despatches report that the great Professor
So-and-so has at last really produced life from the not-living, or has
obtained some absolutely new type of life by some wonderful feat of
breeding. Or some geologist or archaeologist has discovered in the earth
the missing link which connects the higher forms of life with the
lower, or which bridges over the gulf between man and the apes. Thus
many people who get their "science" through the daily papers really
believe that these long-looked-for proofs of Evolution have at last been
demonstrated, and hence they receive without question the confident
assertions of the camp followers of science published at space rates in
the Sunday supplements that all intelligent men of to-day have long ago
accepted the Evolution doctrine.

But in spite of the quick dissemination of news and the universal spread
of education, it seems but a slow process for the really important
discoveries of modern science to filter down through such media as the
current periodicals to the rank and file of society. The situation seems
to illustrate the old adage that a lie will travel round the world while
truth is getting on her shoes. _Thus it happens that the common people
are still being taught in this second decade of the twentieth century
many things that real scientists outgrew nearly a generation ago, and
assertions are still being bandied around in the individual sciences
which are wholly unwarranted by a general survey of the whole field of
modern natural science_. Indeed, in almost every one of the separate
sciences the arguments upon which the theory of Evolution gained its
popularity a generation or so ago are now known by the various
specialists to have been blunders, or mistakes, or hasty conclusions of
one kind or another. Thus the market value of all the various subsidiary
stocks of the Evolution group has been steadily declining in their
respective home markets, and now stands away below par; while strange to
say the stock of the central holding company itself is still quoted at
fictitiously high figures.

This curious--not to say deplorable--situation has developed largely
because of the modern system of strict specialization in the various
departments of sc