Nonspatial Continuum and William Jennings Bryan

     Time. Webster currently defines time as "...a nonspatial continuum that is measured in terms of events which succeed one another from past through present to future". My schedule for the next several weeks is full of events succeeding one another very swiftly. I may not be able to properly maintain this blog during those periods of nonspatial continuum; however, I will do my best to provide y'all with interesting posts.
    William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) died a few days after the famous scopes trial in Dayton TN. He never got to deliver his last speech, it was presented a few days later. I read part of this speech recently and found his reasonings and the conveyance of those ideas intriguing.
     "There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. Resemblances are not proof-they simply put us on inquiry. As one fact, such as the absence of the accused from the scene of the murder, outweighs all the resemblances that a thousand witnesses could swear to, so the inability of science to trace any one of the millions of species to another species, outweighs all the resemblances upon which evolutionists rely to establish man's blood relationship with the brutes. But while the wisest scientists cannot prove a pushing power, such as evolution is supposed to be, there is a lifting power that any child can understand. The plant life lifts the mineral up into a higher world, and the animal lifts the plant up into a world still higher. So, it has been reasoned my analogy, man rises not by a power within him, but only when drawn upward by a higher power. There is a spiritual gravitation that draws all souls toward heaven, just as surely as there is a physical force that draws all matter of the surface of the earth towards the earth's center. Christ is our drawing power; He said, 'I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me,' and His promise is being fulfilled daily all over the world." -William Jennings Bryan
     What do you believe? How did man come into being? Did he evolve or was he created?