The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-25

den Of Eden and her creation Is not
mentioned In the work Of the sixth
day. But in Gen. V:2 We read Male
and female created he them, and CALI
ed their name Adam In the day when
they were created Il seems absurd
to claim that these days We're twenty.
four hours. To insist that the word
means twenty-four hours and then
call the story myth because OF ii
seems hardly fair reasoning.
But perhaps DR.. Scott uses the
word historical in the sense OF true.
Is there any truth in the Genesis
story? Below | give the cosmogony
suggested by the late Prof James d.
Dane Of Yale substantially as he
wrote it:
THE CREATION SCHEME
l. The Inorganic Era.
Genesis--lst day: Light. cosmical
2nd day: The earth indisiduaIised
or separated from surrounding fluids
srd day: CD Outlining of land and
water: (2). Creation Of vegetation.
Science-ist period: The ether and
its activity.
End period Earth made N indie.
pendent sphere
Ord period: (l Outlining of conJi-
nents; (2l Vegetable life, algae, o.c.
II: The Organic Period.
Genesis-4th day: Light from the
sun.
9TH day Creation of the lower order
Of animals
9Th day: "a Creation of mammals
t2l Man.
Science-4th period: Subsidence OF
vapors, appearance of the sun, etc.
9TH period Development of the
great systems of life.
9th period (l) Creation Of nam,
mails; (2) Man.
This is systematic scheme. There
are the organic and inorganic eras.
Each era begins with light. There is
a double creation on the third day of
each era, the second being a prophecy
OF the next era. The second creation
on the third day is life, the predomi-
nant feature of the next era. Accord
ing to Revelation the third era is to
begin with a change in light. And
they need no light of the sun, etc.
The second creation on the sixth day
was man, higher type of life which
survives the physical and is to be the
predominant feature of the third or
coming era.
Genesis Order True.
THE order of creation in Genesis is
substantially true. Science supposes
that ether came first. Genesis makes
light first, but light is vibration Of
the ether. The outlining of continents
preceded the beginning of life. In
geology this begins in the Archean
age where there are no fossils. Sun
light is indispensable to the higher
forms of life, but not to the lower. In
the Bible story the creation Of the
sun comes between them. And so on.
THAT there is considerable cores
pondence between the creation stories
in Genesis and geology is beyond all
possible question. To class Genesis as
wholly mythical in the sense OF being
false Is utterly unwarranted by the
facts.
1T would seem that when several
Interpretation are possible We should
choose the one which is true. Textual
liberalism is only one way Of getting
at the truth and that is somewhat dis
credited these days. For example,
how can we explain the curious fact
that In the Genesis story light was
made days before a luminous body
was made to give light? Astronomy
aud geology tell us that at first the
water was vapor and surrounded the
earth with so dense a cloud that none
of the heavenly bodies were visible
till the carboniferous age; but this
corresponds very closely with the
fourth day
Il can see no reason why science
should not be permitted to help Us
find out the real meaning OF the Bible
1t can at least give us valuable hints
The 'Falr might be the dawning of
9soral consciousness. the sense of