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...several years been in the thick of the fight between the Modernists and Fundamentalists. As the Baptist minister of a Presbyterian Church, he became the object of attack by both religious bodies. He especially incurred the wrath of William Jennings Bryan, who believes with Dr. John Roach Straton, that "there are no missing links and no ape men." The culmination of this bitter and pitiless attack on the great liberal religious leader came last fall when the First Presbyterian Church of New York, where Dr. Fosdick has been minister, for several years, decided to sever all relations with...
Evolution was on the stand last night when Dr. John Roach Straton, prominent fundamentalist, addressed a large crowd in Peabody Hall. After a fair analysis of the arguments on both sides, the floor was thrown open to discussion. Dr. Straton was asked if he believed in God, how Noah got all the animals into the Ark, how he could reconcile the Copernican theory anl many others. Then he stepped forward and asked if he might put a few questions...
...attack on Evolution, Dr. Straton said: "Evolution is based on purely mechanical forces. It does not consider personality. The scientists do not know how the world began. They can only attribute it to blind chance. They will tell you that there came a green scum between the sea and shore of a newly-born world and that one day in that scum there was a wiggle. And we are descended from that wiggle. That most humorous book of all the humorous books of this century. Mr. Well's 'Outline of History', is based entirely on this absurd belief...
...There are no missing links and no missing ape men", Dr. Straton continued. "Man never came from the Apes. The Word in the Bible is that all forms of life were fixed. Each form is to in- crease in its own sphere and according to its own laws...
When questioned as to how he knew there was a God, Dr. Straton replied, "Because I've met him". "And how can we meet him?" the questioner next demanded. "By repenting of your sins and accepting Jesus in your life", he answered: When asked for a more definite proof, he said, "Wherever there is harmony, there is design. And we may go a step further and say that wherever there is design, there is mind and behind mind there is personality. Therefore, God either is Mind or He has Mind...