Douglas Dewar - The Transformist Illusion

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Title: The Transformist Illusion

Date of first publication: 1957

Author: Douglas Dewar

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The

TRANSFORMIST

ILLUSION

By

DOUGLAS DEWAR

DEHOFF PUBLICATIONS

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

1957

Copyright 1957

by George W. DeHoff

All rights reserved.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Douglas Dewar is well known to many Americans who have delvedinto the literature against the theory of evolution. For around fiftyyears he has been a student of the subject. Around forty years or moreago he wrote, with Mr. Finn, a work which accepted a theory ofevolution while rejecting Darwinism. Finally his continued study ofthe facts drove him to the conclusion that the theories of evolution arefalse. In recent years he has had published a debate with H. S. Shelton, Is Evolution Proved? Only last year his debate with J. B. S. Haldane,one of Englands leading biologists, came from the press. It is called: Is Evolution a Myth? Dr. L. M. Davies cooperated with Dewar in thisdebate.

There have been some delays in the publication of this book. Mr.Dewar, in August, 1951, added some additional material in the appendices.

I am happy to have a part in bringing this book to the readingpublic. A careful weighing of Dewars arguments and facts is expectedand invited.

James D. Bales

American Secretary of the Evolution

Protest Movement

Harding College, Searcy, Arkansas

In the Spring of 1957, Dr. Douglas Dewar died without having lived tosee this book in print. His many friends on many continents will cherishthis production even more. He being dead yet speaketh.

The Publishers

In my Difficulties of the Evolution Theory published in 1931 Itried to show that the difficulties which beset the theory of organicevolution are so formidable as to render it desirable, if not to abandonthe theory, at least to supplement it by a theory of special creation.

Dr. A. Morley Davies in his scholarly book entitled Evolution andIts Modern Critics, published in 1937, sought to meet most of thedifficulties cited by me and set forth a number of facts deemed by himto support the theory.

In 1938 I published a rejoinder to Dr. Morley Davies entitled MoreDifficulties of the Evolution Theory. Dr. Davies has not pursued thediscussion.

Difficulties of the Evolution Theory has been out of print forsome years, and I have been urged to bring out a new edition. Butrecent discoveries and a change in biological outlook, to say nothing ofthe existence of the two later books just mentioned, would entail therewriting of practically the whole of Difficulties and the inclusion ofmuch of More Difficulties. Accordingly I have written an entirelynew book, which brings my earlier books up-to-date and states thecase against evolution as it stands in 1948.

I have called this new book The Transformist Illusion, becausetoday it is obvious that the theory of evolution as held by Darwin andhis followers is an illusion.

Biology is still in so backward a state that its students are not in aposition to offer a scientific explanation of the world of life. It is, however,sufficiently advanced to enable us to say with certainty that it isan illusion to believe that the blind forces of nature are responsible forthe origin of life and the development of all organisms now livingfrom one-celled ancestors by the accumulation of small variationsduring a period extending over millions of years.

It is high time that biologists and geologists came into line withastronomers, physicists and chemists and admitted that the world andthe universe are utterly mysterious and all attempts made to explainthem have been baffled.

Douglas Dewar

October 31st, 1948

From time immemorial there have been two schools of thoughtregarding the origin of the world of lifethe creationist and the evolutionist.Until the majority of men of science became victims ofDarwinian sophistry the creationist school had the greater number ofadherents.

There is this difference between the two schools of thought; theCreationists do not hope to understand how God created the animalsand plants, the Evolutionists, on the other hand, hope to discover notonly the natural forces which they believe caused life to arise andassume its present diversities, but how these forces have accomplishedthis feat. So far this quest has been entirely unsuccessful, and thereis no prospect of success ever being achieved.

At the outset the evolutionist encounters the supreme difficulty ofaccounting for the origin of life. So great is this difficulty that ProfessorJ. B. S. Haldane, declined to debate evolution with Col. L. M. Daviesand myself, unless the question of the origin of life on the earth wereexcluded from the debate.

All agree that there was a time when life cannot have existed onthe earth.

The Creationist asserts that the first living organisms were createdmiraculously, the evolutionist that they originated in the natural courseof events, as the result of the interplay of forces or the fortuitous concourseof atoms and molecules. The latter view, unlike the former, canbe tested experimentally. If in the past inorganic matter became transformedinto a living organism, it ought to be quite easy to repeat theprocess in the laboratory. We know the chemical elements and compoundsof which the bodies of animals and plants are composed. Thebiochemist has all these at his disposal. He can take any combinationof them he chooses. Thanks to the apparatus at his disposal he canprovide these compounds with any kind of environment he pleases,subject them to any sort of atmosphere, and degree of temperature andpressure, to any description of light or to complete darkness, to electricor galvanic treatment, to cosmic rays, to ultra-violet or ultra-red rays,to X-rays and emanations from any radio-active mineral.

Nevertheless, so far all attempts to convert inanimate compoundsinto living matter have ended in failure. I doubt whether any scientificman today expects to be able to do so, because the extraordinary complexityof even the most minute living organism is realized. Gager trulyremarks that the simplest cell, the unit of every organism, has astructure compared to which that of a modern printing press or awatch is simple and clumsy.