The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-09-09
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Do the sclenJitts Realize the Havoc
They Are Trying to commit7
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(From the Chicago Tribure)
The American association for the
Advancement Of science. In session at
Denver with almost unanimous reck-
lessness and Indifference to consequent
ses. has relegated Adam and Eve to the
dumping ground Of the myths. The
curator of the anthropological section
of the Field Columbian museum
fought hard to save the pair, alleged to
have been our first parents. and at
whose graves Mark Twain wept so
copiously, but It was of no use. The
scientists tell us there could have
been no Adam and Eve of blessed
mempry in a garden Of Eden. and Of
fer to us as substitutes white, black,
red, yellow, russell. copper colored,
and black and tan Adams and Ewes,
to account eor anthropological varia-
tions.
Even admitting that the scientists
are correct in this matter. would it
not have been kinder If they had kept
the secret to themselves and not de-
molished the dear old story at one fell
swoop? DO they realize what havoc
they have committed? If there were
no Adam and Eve, then there was no
garden Of Eden, with all the creatures
Adam named, with its purling brooks
and fowery meads and chanting birds,
with its stately trees, and in their
midst the tree of life and of the knowl
edge of good and evil: no adventure
of Eve with the serpent; no tempta-
ton of Adam with the apple; no evic-
tion from their home; no curse of la
Dor pronounced against them as they
fed out of Eden IN terror no b9auti-
full cherubim with flaming swords, the
delight of every child. keeping watch
ana ward ever the way that led to the
tree of life.
And this is not all the scientists
have taken from us. If there were no
Adam and Eve then certainly there
was no Cain, the man behind tne
hoe no Abel. who tended the sheep,
and no murder in the field. But, worse
than all else, perhaps, is the ruthless
manner in which the scientists have
torn up that old genealogy the des-
pair of youth and the revered object
of age, and tumbled down like row
Of bricks the long line Of lusty and Wig
orous "begats." beginning with Seth
and ending with Noah, and including
between these extremes so many hale
old fellows, among the Enosh, and
Kenan, and Mahalaleel, and Jared, and
Enoch. and Methuselah, the record
breaker. all of whom kept on begat-
ting hundreds of years after they
should have been dead. And II Noah
is gone. too. what becomes Of the ark.
and the clean beasts, and the beasts
that were not clean, and the fowls,
and all the creeping things that went
In unto Noah into the ark, two and
two of all flesh, wherein is the breath
of life2'
Il is sad sad havoc the scientists
have made with the grand old story
of creation. "All all are gone. the
old familiar faces" But will they not
return again? win not Prof. Dorsey
rally the anthropologists and make
concerted attack upon the iconoclasts'
and save Adam and Eve and all the
'begats?" Victory would rebound to
his credit and be triumph for the
Field Columbian museum. and incl
dentally for Chicago. There is alto
eether too much of the ioonoclastic
spirit abroad. It should be rebuked'
In this connection it is pleasing to OBJ
serve that the Sunday school eonven
tion at Winona has Lnanipously re-
stored and rehabilitated hades. That
lis a good beginning