The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-11-24
ISGERsoLL ON THE BIBLE.
A New Lecture Attacking the pun
lions of Faith.

~ = 1911
ions OF Faith.
Col Robert c.. Iage-soll delivered at the
Star theater last night a lecture on me
Foundations OF Faith" Tnls lecture =
new. and II held the attention or ms audi
ence. Col. Ingersoll began with a discus
son Of the Old Testament. II that DOCK
he said. is not true. il its authors we're un-
aided men. II II contains blunders and
falsehoods. then that story arumoles to the
dust"
col. Ingersoll said that biologists had
established The fact that hundreds OF thou
sands OF years ago In the DRIFT period
man was on earth. 1t Is therefore GER
tain he said. that many, many thou
sands OF years before Adam lived, men,
women and children Inhabited the earth
Il Is certain that the account in the Bible
Of the creation OF the. first man Is a ms
take. IL Is certain that the inspired writ
ers knew nothing about the origin Of man.
let me give You another fact; The
Egyptians we're astronomers. A few years
ago representations Of the stars were f0uad
on the walls Of an old temple, and Il was
discovered by calculating backward that
the stars did occupy the exact positions
as represented about 80 years before
Christ. .AfterWard another representation
OF the stars gas found, and by calculating
IN tho same way II was found that the stars
did occupy the exact positions represented
about $500 years before Christ.
According to the Bible the first man
was created 1905 years before Christ II
this Is true. then Egypt was founded, It's
language formed. its arts cultivated, its
astronomical discoveries mede and record
Cd about 80 years after the creation of he
first man. In other words, Adam was TWO
or three hundred years old when the Egyp-
tian astronomers made these representa-
lions. Nothing can be more absurd.
Again I say that the writer's Of the Bible
were mistaken. How do ! know? Accord
ing 10 chat same Bible there was a food
some fifteen or sixteen hundred years after
Adam was created that destroyed the en-
tire human race with the exception Of
eight persons. and according to the Bible
the Egyptians descended from one Of the
Sons OF Noah. How. then. did the Egyp-
tIaus represent the stars in the position
they occupied 200 years before the flood?
No ono pretends that Egypt existed as a
nation before the food. Yet the astro-
nomical representations found must have
heeu made more than 1000 years before the
world vas drowned
There is another mistake in the Bible.
According TO that hook the sun was made
after the earth was created. Is this true2
pd the earth exist before The sun? The
men of science believe the exact opposite.
They believe hat the earth Is a child Of
the sun-that the earth. as well as the
other planets belonging 70 our c0nstella-
tom, came from the sun. The writers Of
the Bible were mistaken.
can we rely ON the historical parts cf
the Biblee Seventy souls went down into
Egypt. and i'm gt5 wears increased 10 i5.@o.-
ON They could not have doubled more
than four times a century. Say nine times
In 2tS wears. This makes $3.50 instead Of
3.osl00.
can we believe the accounts Of the bat
tlcS3 Take one instance: Jeroboan had
aN army Of >oo.@o men. Ahiiah OF f00. 900
They fought. The Lord was on Ahitah's
side. ard he KILLED 5o.oN Of Jerohoam's
men. An these soldiers were Jews-all
lived In Palestine. a poor. miserable little
country about out-quar'er AS large as the
state 90 New York. Yet 800 an soldiers
We're put IN she he'd This required a pop
ul3tion in the country Of ten or twelve mil
lions. or course. this Is ahsur1- Palestine
IN It's psim3est DAYS could not have sup
ported 2.NF.No people The soil IS poor.
~ th. P.nla IS INSPIRED. is % truce
us .t possible THAI David collected nearly
g $50 TONS ~ goid-that ne hv economy e0t
together about aAno tons Of silver. making
q tatl, III gold and silver - @.ea tonse
Tho average frcieht car carries about m
teen tans-Dav33's gold ana silver would
LOAD about g532 ears. making "a train about
t8-rty-tNo miles in lf0g.h. And al this
for jhr temple rs. Jerusaiem. q husidinE 20
f.rt 'enE ans g. feerNigh ana A' feet wide.
ga whI-h was attached a porch 81 feet wide.
pl ft.t trHE and t0 feet high. Probably
the t~-aitae. Ne- Inspired
"fS tr.r. 4 ~..zhje man - che w0r,3 NHo
believes thsf paV3 collected seven th7,-
sari wtn aa dollars war.a of gold ~ ~t'-
we're Thsv, F. hardly 1--WE thousand mill ,us
% ac,f rtv rset as money in the whole
V.-'i Tnink ~ thr millions aiken FROM
.-e m -.~ - california. Australia and
Africa during mo present eeaturv and ye.