The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-05
new CREATION THEORY
DR.. BOWERS, OF CALIFORNIA,
WORKS OUT VALUABLE IDEAS
Unites the Mosaic With the Scientific
Story of the DeIuse Confirmed and
Evidence Adduced to Show That
There Was Succession Of Floods
Giants in Early Days.

There Was Succession of Floods
Giants in Early Days.
Special to The Globe.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. A.
Stephen Bowers, Phi. D. of the miner
illogical and geological survey of Cali
fornia, is man of much research who
is possessed of interesting and original
theories regarding the early history of
the world.
Prof. Bowers believes that the Bib
is correct, but he gives US some inter-
esting filling in matter to round out
the Mosaic narrative.
"Geologists, says the professor are
all agreed that this earth was once
vast molten mass, more or less spher-
ical revolving in space, every thing
that could be vaporized being thrown
off to a great distance from the burn
ing globe, water, carbon and all min
eral and metalliferous substances were
thus disposed of. These cast off ele-
mentS revolved about the earth as the
rings of Saturn are now doing at about
the location of the present equator.
After the passage of a few aoenS the
lower strata, composed of the heavier
substances drew nearer to the earth,
gradually advancing to the poles until
the earth was enveloped with a COM
plete canopy. This new arrangement
produced a uniform temperature all
over the earth and the relics of trop-
ical vegetation found in the polar re-
gions are accounted for by these con-
ditions After time this over canopy
mass commenced falling at the poles
because of the excessive gravital force
overcoming the centrifugal force. This
was followed by a deluge Of waters,
which brought more or less Of it's de-
posits to the equator. An thrush Of
arctic cold followed the fall of vapor.
The SHOWS were turned into ice and
enormous glaciers commenced gliding
toward the equator till another stratum
of vaporized matter formed a canopy
around the earth melting the glaciers
and restoring universally equable
climate.
Succession of Deluges.
These deluges were consecutive and
follow the epochs so clearly that they
bear out the entire theory of creation
on this planet.
DR.. Bowers quotes in his general
judgment of this thing the remarks Of
Prof. LIE Cnote, who says in his Cen
fury of Geology" "the amount of water
is sufficient, If the inequalities were re-
moved, to cover the whole surface Of
the earth two and a half miles deep"
The water changing it's place all
over the globe at the same time would
not affect the worlds gravity; but
otherwise the .heaping up Of water suf
fcient to cover the highest mountains
within the compass of few hundred
thousand miles would effect change
in the mutation of the earth's axis
changing the position of its axis. AS
a result the increased centrifugal force
would heap up the water on the oppo-
site side of the globe, and If the crust
is no thicker than it is supposed to be
tsmight break it asunder and cause
general deluge whether intended or
not.
Having established the fund Of wa
ter necessary to overwhelm the earth"
says DR.. Bowers, Moses, the worlds
historian, tells us that light came in
and garniShed- the heavens before the
sun was SEEM That means that the
upper deep. felt the. direct rays of
the sun, but he revealed his light by
the law of universal diffusion among
the vapor. The greater and lesser
lights appear on the fourth day. The
sun, which had been set in the heav-
ems for unnumbered ages, did not ap-
pear in the sky until after the earth
had brought forth grass and herb
yielding fruit. Thus it is plain that
an intercepting canopy cut off the di-
rect rays of the sun; but no such can
opy could appear but in the form of
revolving rings or belts. Nothing
seemed clearer than that there was
an upper fund Of water, a great deep
beyond the armament. In Genesis the
water upon the earth was called seas,
making it understandable that the
deep as therein described was not the
water upon the earth, but waters
overhead.
Genesis further says that light from
the sun came in and illumined the up
per deep. The last ring of vapor had
so far declined into the terrestrial at
mosphere as to spread over the earth
in it's effort to reach the poles. Then
for a long period rains ceased as had
been the case in previous geologic ages.
The climate was warm and man dWelt
naked and all manner of fruits grew
in the garden of Eden. 1t was eden"
from pole to pole, rainless, winterless
and summerleSS. Storms and tempeStS
were unknown, such phenomena being
caused by the suns heat falling on the
earth's surface. The alterations Of
the seasons were not then as now hav-
ing been established after the deluge.
Then the earth was Watered by mist
or fog, the rainbow not having yet
come into view, because there were no
direct visible rays of the sun to pro-
duce 1t; of course this could not occur
while the heavens were overcanopied.
Following the fall of the upper deep
the rainbow occurred in the clouds,
as it is gently expressed in Genesis,
where it is said, and God made wind
to pass over the earth which naturally
came after the clearing of the heavens
of aqueous vapor and could not have
occurred before 1T.
In this greenhouse world man, Of
course according to the conditions of
nature, lived to a great age. Solar
actinism was shorn of it's strength,
which had tended to longevity and the
large forms Of life. AS Genesis re-
marks there were giants in those
days. which is literally true Of man
and beast In that time sharks, at
least 100 feet long and fish lizards half
as long again were in the seas; dina
sours of many tons weight and other
gigantic creatures, walked upon the
earth, while flying dragons with a
spread of at least twenty-five feet nav
igated the air. In few generations
man died at the age of 100 years,
thenceforth falling off to an average
of three-score and ten, this probably
coming down from an age OF 500 years.
DIR. Bowers forcible presentation of
these ideas pleasantly lights UP the