The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-26

ne appear Science mas MIN Wnere
the Scriptures place him, and sees in
him the crown which continuous type
has long foreshadowed"
A Darwinian Materialist once boast
ingly declared; Il do not need God;
I can run the universe without one. .
The righteousness of such an asser-
tNon need no comment. In speaking
lof this bright Scotehman once re
marked.
Only grant him TO begin with an
ocean of atoms and force to set
them in motion and he will forwith ex-
plain the mystery of creation. If we
have what he calls a scientific imagi-
nation, he will let us see the whole
process, the molecules or atoms cir
cling and whirling, dancing and skip
ping, combining and dividing, advanc-
ing and retiring. selecting partners
and forming groups, closing their
ranks and opening them out again,
building up spaee-flling masses, grow
ing hotter and hotter as they wheel
through space. whirling swifter and
Iswifter, till through sheer velocity they
swell and burst, after which they break
up into fragments and cool down into
a complete planetary system. Inyit-
ing US to light upon this globe, he will
show us how through long centuries.
mounting up to millions of years. the
various rocks which form the earth S
crust were deposited. Nay, if we will
dive with him to the bottom of the
ocean he will point out the first speck
of dead matter that sprang into life,
|protoplasm, though he cannot tell when
or how. Having startled us with this,
he will lead us up the Great Staircase
of Nature, with its 26 or q steps, and
tell us how on this step the vegetable
grew into an animal, and how after
many more steps the animal became
a man, and thus the whole evolution
ary drama win be unrolled."
Thus it will be seen that the infidel
evolutionist will loudly express his be-
lief in an impossible miracle such as
the foregoing, while at the same time
he rejects the majestic and reasonable 2
account of the creation as given us by
Moses under divine inspiration. But
there is a reason, and we will come
to it after a while as opportunity Of
fers.
Professor Dana said: The progress
of the vegetable and animal tribes has
been followed through the three grand
divisions of geological time-the
PaleozoIc. Mesozoic and Cenozoic. In
the latter part of the last era now
opening, the animal element is no
longer dominant but Mind in the pos
session of a being at the head of the
kingdoms of life. At the same time
the animal structure is brought to its
highest perfection in the erect form
of Man. COMPLETING as Agassiz
has observed. the possible changes in
the series to its last term.
'sThe recent origin of NAH, states
DR.. King, lis one of the best establish
ed facts in geological science. The
absence of human remains from all
but the most modern and superficial
deposits, although very remarkable, is
only "a fragment of the evidence we
can adduce."
Principal Dawson testifies that The
continents had now attained to their
greatest extension; animal and vege-
table life had again oyerspread the
new land to its utmost limits
Many great and formidable beasts Of
the Tertiary period had disappeared
in the revolutions which had occurred
and the existing fauna of the northern
hemisphere had been established .on
the land. THEN 1T WAS THAT MAN
WAS INTRODUCED BY AN ACT OF
CREATIVE POWER"
The great geologist, Hugh Miller re-
marks. ITO the close of the Tertiary
period-the evening of the sixth day
MAN BELONGS: at once THE LAST
CREATED of terrestrial creatures
and infinitely beyond comparison the
most elevated in the scale; and with
Mans appearance on the scene the
days Of creation end
Out from the awful and profound
catyclisms of the countless ages, with
their convulsions, earthquakes and dis
turbances incidental to those measure
less periods of time, was evolved a fit
dwelring-plac for Gods masterpiece
of creation-MAN And yet as We
ponder over the conditions prevailing
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