The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-15
(Fifth Series.l
MOSES AND SCIENCE NOT IN CON-
OBSERVER
FLlCT.
(By John Marcus.)

THIRD PROPOSITION: In the
Mosaic account of the condition pre-
vailing preceding the period of the
Adamic creation it is asserted that
darkness was upon the face of the
deep" Science is silent as to this,
but facts that science recognizes points
to this as highly probable
The globe at this time, in all prob
ability, was in condition to engender
abounding fogs and dense clouds. The
great changes in temperature, and in
the relative positions of land and wa
ter, must have been productive of fire.
quent and violent storms, agitating the
ocean and filling the atmosphere with
darkening humidity. The rising and
subsiding of the waters of the sea
would fill and close many old chan
nels and open up new ones, wash away
former banks and accumulate others
, in their stead, and thus create diverse
lcurrents, together with streams warm
and cold, like those traversing the At
lantic, and producing the great and
notable fogs of the banks of New
, foundland Hundreds of hot springs
and volcanoes would contribute not
. little to the same effect. The restora-
! ton of a higher temperature would
, also draw up from the sea and land
exhalations in copious abundance. The
, first action of the summers sun would
! be to raise a fog and accumulate
clouds, which would effectually pre-
, vent the suns rays from reaching the
, earth"
FOURTH PROPOSITION: Moses
: states that Immediately before the ap-
| Ipearance of man, the waters were
f gathered together, and the dry land
appeared" SCIENCE SAYS AND
5 PROVES THE SAME THING.
j Professor Dana, than whom there is
e no higher scientific authority, says
) that the waters of the globe were
| gathered together, and their bounds
/ much contracted, about THE BEGIN
t ming OF THE HUMAN PERIOD. To
0 this the geological evidences are in
v ldisputable This eminent scientist
e Isays further, that "a vast area of the
d floor of the Pacific, measuring 5000
y miles in length, and from 1000 to
S 1900 in breadth, has been depressed
! thousands of feet; 200 islands have
n disappeared beneath the waters, and
t the whole amount of subsidence is es-
r timated to be no less than 5000 feet;
e that the geological facts are of such
= character as to show clearly that
s there was also great subsistence OF
n the bed of the Mediterranean The
lsea-beds around the British Islands
e likewise, were depressed about the
1t same period Similar subsidences il
/ other parts of the world are also in
d. evidence.
If And in regard to this, Professor
h Harris says: AS the Sacred Record
le according to it's plain and natura
sr sense, declares that the waters which
n covered the earth were, AT THIS
ot TIME, gathered together" we may
Le with reason, believe that in these con
s. temporaneous subsidences, we have
e, the result of the Almighty impulse
s. that attended the command, Let thu
to dry land appear
lg From the ascertained facts of geol
Id ogy. as we'll as from the plain words
lg of Scripture, it appears that the wa.
,e in which "the dry land appeared" wat
te not simply by its being unheayet
id bodily above the surface of the over
lying waters, but by "the gathering
at together of the waters" that is, b.
at the sinking and withdrawing of th'
of waters, partly to the deepened bed'
e, of the ocean, and partly toward tn,
RS Southern Pole, whence they had beel
ir attracted by the change in the centr,
RS of gravity, to which reference has beel
at made before. This would indicate
so therefore, that the surfaces of tn
es Old Continents remained substantial,
~ undisturbed, and their relative levels
III and respective plains, elevations ant
IS. declivities continued as they had beer
Id of old.
sn AS we read in the Biblical record
Id the four rivers of Eden are represent
i'd ed as flowing at once along defnit
Id and settled channels. From this W
n also may infer that the sublime pin
az nacles of the Alps and the Arara
is stand now as they stood in the mids
Is, of the former creation, and tn
N, Niagara and Colorado flow tod y alon
ly the same rocky channels that they be
III gan to scoop out, numerous ages age
mt perhaps before the Glacial era ha
90 set in In conclusion, what may W
no see in all this? Nothing less tha