Article May 31, 1919 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Robert Treible, Hilda Richmond

[Robert Treible in The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald]

Evolution leads to conclusions absolutely destructive of morality and fundamental Christian truth. The believer in evolution must finally conclude that there is really no difference between right and wrong, and that the moral law is mere arbitrary imposition; for he holds the sinful state to be merely a lower step in the evolutionary process. "Whatever is, is right." The sinner is simply a man in the irrational stage, and from him will evolve the righteous or rational man. Evolution brings the belief that might is right. If might is right, thee can be no justice, liberty, or morality. When men no longer respect the ten commandment law, there can be no peace nor safety. Men are taught that they are evolved from animals, that they are merely a highly developed form of animal life. Animals follow their instincts, knowing no difference between right and wrong, and need no ten commandment law to guide them. The human evolutionist animal comes to believe his inclination is the supreme and proper law to obey; hence desire leads him, and conscience is silenced as a childish fear.

Conscience or the ten commandment law should sift our desires, separating the good from the evil. Otherwise murder, adultery, and dishonesty will be unrestrained. The old-fashioned spiritual man held himself strictly accountable to his Maker for the deeds done in the body. The modern evolutionist has no god but himself. Might is right, and his pleasure is his guide. Morality means the square deal to the other fellow. Evolution means the survival of the fittest, that is, the strongest. Weakness is unfitness; so the unfit, or the weak, perish, as they ought to do, out of the way of the fit (the strong).

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