The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-28

And still with MI these Ave specific relax
and tho six above mentioned anees-
irnl gene n, there 10 not one which could
possibly be tho p ogeuitor OF tho horse.
Tn ngs, the zebrn nni tho dnagga, the
nearest relatives, all ave failad to mas the
eruc al toat; and ID is useless TO talk OF
more dia,ant relations, who lived 80 long
before the horse.
And then we nre told that Adam must
have had n I'roRlodyte ancestry, and since
thn panzee WAS hia nea est relative,
and hence his immediate progenitor. !
often trio1 to picture Mad ms Chimpanzee
~nuraina the infant Eve In this shades of
y radisc, while Pstsr Chimpnpzee WAS mi
tiatina young Adam into the mysteries of
gathering food for the growing family.
but Moses Inns given us n little bit OF n
Adam IN search of n wife. All
tho animals were paraded befo o him. lie
calleu them all by name; but no one was
found auitnble to be his mate; and u new
creation became necessary. And now more
than G.0O0 yenrs late Dnt win and Huxley
and Marsh and Il hundred others have
searched the whole animnl kingdom and
all the ancient bone yards and caves OF the
on tit to find Il mate or even ancestor for
modern science. Here again Moses is in
lead of the scientists. He found n mate for
Adam, Ms doubtless tho Darwinians will
after another hundred years Of fruitlesH
search for a human l~roalodyte.
Enrly in the present century the French
institute formulated eighty geological
theories. which were hostile to the script
urea" But Sir Charles Lyell said. MOT
one of these theories is held ty-day." Such
in fact has been the fate of nearly all the
scientific theories. which have appeared in
conflict with the Biblical record. Prof.
Tyndall says the views OF Darwin may be
wrong" and he thinks cit certain the pre-
yailina views of evolution will he modified"
Prof. Rudolf Virchow, of the University OF
Berlin, than whom no better authority ex-
istS. ~tcstifies aB follows: In vain have the
links which should bind man TO the monkey
been sought. Not q single one is there to
show. Tho SO called proanthopos, who
found. q y Il At present we only know
that among archaic men none have been
found that stood nearer the monkey than
the men of to-day. The ancients were
thoroughly well-formed men; they bore no
characteristic marks that we do not at
present meet in living peoples" (Then
after u hasty survey Of all the native peo-
Piles of all the continents and islands of che
seas, he adds): ST ON all these investiga-
tions. 1t is clear that among all native peo-
pies there is not a single one that would
stand 80 near or nearer to the monkey than
we. y = Y = Each living race of men
10 purely human; none has yet been found
that can be affirmed as monkey-like. That
is the great difference of our present ex-
perience." (knowledge).
Prof. VirohOw has, at many of the meet
ings of the German association, asserted in
most positive terms that there is no proof
whatever of the theory of evolution. Prof.
of Ftance, in a late lecture in the Museum
of Natural History of Paris. said: There
Is a radical difference between species and
hereditary varieties of race. Races of the
same species can unite to the remotest de-
gree, and their %fecundity is in no way i'm
paired. The species cannot unite; or, i'll
the few instances in which thew do. the Off
spring ia sterile. There is no physiological
bar between the most diverse races of the
same species; there is a barrier between
species which appear to be most clearly
allied, and it is overpassed in a few rare
instances it asserts it's presence in a very few
generations. In every organic species there
is something which isoiates it from all 9TH
ers and which preserves it's identity in
spite of every variation. That something
survives under every modification of form
Transformation of species is as impossible
in the organic as in the nos anic world"
There are a few facts in regard to species
which may be instr uctive and interesting,
In the mineral kingdom carbonate of lime
is a ~well-known species of mineral. II
crystalizss in the rhombohedral system. 1t
can be distinguished by Its crystals; but
they present n variety Of forms. About 500
of these have already been described. Yet
no one of these 800 forms has lost it's spe-
ciic characteristics. All are carbonate of
lime. Ii we pass into the vegetable king.
dom we shall find quite az much variation
of specific forms, without any change in the
specific characters. Over 500 varieties Of
wheat have been catalogued. and yet no one
mistakes any one of these varieties for any
thing but wheat. No one of them resem-
hIao anu nfhAp nnpnn no horIau cato -
or wheat.
There are 800 varieties of the rock dove
but hen these varieties are permitted to
live freely together they rapidly regain
the appearance of the ancestral rock dow
of Asia. The horse already mentioned pre-
size, but singuiarly alike in other respects
The Clydesdale looms up into e%lephantint
size. The Shetland pony is as noted for its
d~iminutive form, not forgetting the great
strong Norman. and the Arabian, mos
beautiful of all. While the ass, zebra an(
quagga are We y slightly removes f ON the
horse by specific characters; all efforts have
failed to produce a self-sustainin2 hybric
from any two of these nearly related spe'
cies. In sho t, all the facts in natural his
tory seem to sustain Moses rather thar
Darwin; and l could quote scores of TIN
best scientific authorities in America a
sustaining the Biblical record-such mer
dS Idllt VI hlDuuJ, DilliuuaH, VI ld1e
Hitchcock. of Amherst, and Pierce, of Har
ward; but | have room for but two-Daw
son, of Montreal, and Dana, OF Yale.
No man is better qualified to judge THAI
Principal Dawson, of McGill college, whit
SAYS: The order of creation, as stated il
Genesis. is fauitless in the light of modern
science, and many of its details present tn,
most remarkable agreement with the re
suits of sciences born only in our own day.
l will only add the testimony of DR.. Dana
of Yale, than whom no one is better pre-
pared TO speak; The first thought tina
strikes the scientific reader is the evideno
of divinity, not merely in the first verse o
the recogd and the successive fats, but il
the whole order of the G cation. There i
so much that the most recent readings O
science have for the first time explaine,
that the idea of man as the author becomes
utterly incohprehensible. by proving thu
record true, science ~pronounces it divine
for who could have correctly narrated the
secrets of etc nifty but God himself?' Suol
is the testimony of those best qualified t,
understand and compare the teachings o
science with the records of Moses.
G. C. SWALLOW.
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