Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-02
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could not shine directly upon the pnrth.
Moses says: '"lhc Lord had not caused it
To rain upon the earth aud geology henrA
ont an Cheese statements. n The carths
rings were similar 10 those we now seq
surrounding Jupiter " can he easily un-
defatoOd that az these successive rings MP
prOuchcd the earth ut the equator they
would spread out toward the poles, there.
by hiding the sun, aud as the matter OF
these rings would each cause a Hood When
prcClpltgted "a the EARTH natural law re-
Qulrea that there should have becn ma.
merOuH Hoods the last or which occurred
nt the time Of Noah
There are many reasons for believing
that the human race had attained a much
higher state of Intelligence before Nonh %
food than since. and ~ those great cutn'
clsms were of comparatively frequent &C.
currcuce. q II not unreasonable that Nonh,
from a scientific standpoint, might nave
known 100 years Ia advance, when me
next dohaclc would occur Cloud belts
and rings surrounding q planet must
necessarily decline very Slowly unNh lnty
reach The atmosphere While rVVolNinR
RAPIDLY around the planet they wogll Pc
kept al0ft by centrifugal force aud the
bunyancy Of the elcciro~phorc but az
soon as they would reach the atmosphere
me belts would rapidly break up ana de-
cline IN great Hood
Geology proves beyond any question
that there were frequent great Hoods fols
lowing the downfall Of carbon In the car
bOnlferous age, and there W no conflict be-
tween Genesis nnd geology On thls Ques-
tlOn. The preachers are at fault for any
apparent conflict between geology and
Gehesis but The rreachcis are being taught
many useful lessons by The hcienukis.
Genesis speak Of seven periods and the
preacher, or priest, mlslnterpreted TINS To-
mean days. When the seven days Idea of
crontion was established IN the minds OF
the human race the priests had a munOp.
DIV OF the education aud intelligence or
the times, aud although, under tho cir
cnmatanccs, we cnnnot greatly cenHure
now freely admit ,rhc Fact OF that great
serious Rnd mischleyous error ON tue part
OF the priests ana preachers entities the
scicntlats to "a further hearing ~ tQ the IN.
terprefntlOn Of Genesis by the llRht OF
scientific facts and reasoning
The evidences furnished by the cloud
bcltg Of nll the major planets, except ne
earth and Mars together Win the geologic
record, prove TINT our earth was sur
rounded 10y great cloud belts and that
those fell 20 the enrthi causing me iine
history Of man, nA found ia Genesis con
firms this theory Following these idcuH
10 their legitimate conclusions the story
OF the rainbow us found ia Genesis is an.
other strong argument
There WIS no rainbow 10 be seen while
the upper deep he cloud belts shut ont
fell in NOah'a Hood the skies wcre cleared
anu the rainbow appeared. Genesis nukea
no mistale n playing ne nIs, gppe,arhiice
sal law demands that II could not have ap-
pcarcd before
That man lived 500 or 300 years before
the HOOD ~ not Understanding from TWO
well known lave. First before the moon
cOmet came 20 tho earth the latter WIS
much nearer the sun than now aud there
fore the years were shorter This law las
recently been argued AZ great length by
astronomers IN reference 70 Holmes
comet which caused 80 much alarm re.
Gently H. Is argued BY them that
liOlfnes' comet Is newly formed from Two
pianetOids coming IN collision and that
the uewforned 2asses, r0sultinR from
the collision, 50 greatly Increased the COM
lGncd nimospheres that went together
ntey carried outside Of the orbits Of the
two pianetoids and the comet Is stin going
from the SUM- This would have been the
result "a case Of the earth II struck by our
noon comet
IN me earth formerly occupied an orbit
between Mercury and Venus, 300 " rs
years then would be equal 10 only about
30 az the present years Of the earth, As.
trononera VIII not deny that a collision
between eur mooncOmet and the earth
what II figured out above, and physicians
VIII not deny that the average life OF man
q now increasing ana under favorable Cir-
cuInhtanees might have been much greater
Those favorable circumstances were
present IN the Edenic age and this q the
SECOND reason assigned shat man lived
longer before than since ne food u was
fulnless, stornlle8R SUNLESS period With
ont tie burning and killing rays q the
man rose had become used TO the condi-
tlOus Of that nge "a which vegetation WIS
thousand times more rank and cNtqn-
Flve than now Fnd for the very reason thar
plants taken gtom green honse, where
beams, and PLACED IA the suns rage on ~
sandy desert would Wlihof aud de. 10 n
Waa With man. When the upper oeep tne