The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-03-29
MOSES AND SCIENCE NOT AT
VARIANCE.
The Creation of Man Gods Master
piece. Man Not an EvoIuted Being.

piece. Man Not an Evoluted being.
(By John Mareus)
SIXTH PROPOSITION: Moses says
that the last and highes. Of Gods
creations was Man and Science en-
phatically proves the same thing.
DIR. Fraser, the eminent geologist,
says: In the distant past not a trace
Of mans presence has been found He
is Of yesterday. While the stone vol
umen has preserved for us the slight
impressions of the Annelid and the
foot trail of perished mollusces in the
soft mud over which they erawled;
while it has restored to us in perfect
shape the delicately-constructed many
lensed eye of the Trilobite, and has
kept exact record OF the death strug-
giles OF fishes on the sands OF the olden
seas; while il has delineated, on car
honiferous columns, fern leaves ex.
quisitely delicate in structure as the
finest species of modern times, and
while the rain drops of long by-gone
ages have left imprints which reveal
TO us the course which even the wind
followed, NOT 4 TRACE or MAN Is
VISIBLE. Only AT THE CLOSE does
he appear; Science finds him where
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-
ton need no comment In speaking
of this a blight scotchman 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-
tion, he will let us see the whole
process,-7the 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 space-tilling masses. grow
ing hotter and hotter as they wheel
through space, whirling swifter and
swifter. till through sheer velocity they
swell and burst, after which they break
up into fragments and cool down into
a complete planetary system. Invit-
ing us to light upon this globe, he viii
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 viii
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
man, and thus the whole evolution.
airy drama will be unrolled.'
Thus 1t 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
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
Paleozoie, 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 she head of the
OF lie. AT the same time /
the animal structure is brought to its
highest perfection in the erect form
Of Man, COMPLETING, as Agassiz I
has observed, the possible changes in
the series to its last term.
THE recent origin of man, states
Or. 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 fragment Of the evidence We
can adduce"
Principal Dawson testfies that The
continents had now attained to their
greatest extension; animal and vege-
table life had again overspread 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
a9and THEN. TT WAS THAT NAN i