The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-03-08
lFifth series.l
MOSES AND SCIENCE NOT IN CON-
FllCT.
(By John Marcus J

-"oSoAS dSNouht Ol Iue COnultlOu pre-
vailing preceding the period of the
Adamic creation it is asserted that
Sdarkness 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
currents, 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 a
little to the same effect. The restora-
ton of higher temperature would
also draw up from the sea and land
exhalations in copious abundance. The
fffst action of the summers sun would
be to raise fog and accumulate
clouds, which would eRectually pre-.
vent the suns rays from reaching the
earth"
FOURTH PROPOSITION: Moses
states that immediately before the ap-
pearance of man, 'the waters were
gathered together, and the dry land
appeared" SCIENCE SAYS AND
PROVES THE SANE THING.
Professor Dana, than whom there is
no higher scientific authority, says
that the waters of the globe were
gathered together, and their bounds
much contracted, about THE BEGIN
MING OF THE HUMAN PERIOD. To
this the geological evidences are in
disputable. This eminent scientist
says further, that "a vast area of the
floor of the Pacific, measuring 5000
miles in length, and from 1000 to
1000 in breadth, has been depressed
thousands of feet; 200 islands have
disappeared beneath the waters, and
the whole amount of subsistence is es-
timated to be no less than 5000 feet;
that the geological facts are of such
character as to show clearly that
there was also great subsistence of
the bed of the Mediterranean. The
sea-beds around the British Islands,
likewise, were depressed about the
same period Similar subsidences in
other parts of the world are also in
And in regard to this, Professor
Harris says: "As the Sacred Record,
to its plain and natural
sense, declares that the waters which
covered the earth were, AT THIS
TINE, gathered together" we may,
with reason, believe that in these con-
temporaneous subsidences, we have
the result of the Almighty impulse
that attended the command, LET the
dry land appear"
From the ascertained facts of geol-
ogy, as we'll as from the plain wbrds
of Scripture, it appears that the way
in which the dry land appeared" was
not simply by its being unheaved |
bodily above the surface of the over
ying waters, but by ''the gathering
together of the waters" that is, by
he sinking and withdrawing of the
partly to the deepened beds
,f the ocean, and partly toward the !
Southern Pole, whence they had been
attracted by the change in the centre
If gravity, to which reference has been
made before. This would indicate,
therefore, that the surfaces of the
Did Continents remained substantially
and their relative levels,
md respective plains. elevations and
Ieclivities continued as they Lad been
If old.
AS We read in the sBiblical record,
he four rivers Of Eden are represent
ID as flowing at once along definite
md settled channels From this we
Ilso may infer that the sublime pin
lacIes of the Alps and the Ararat |
tand now as they stood in the midst
# the former creation, and the 4
Niagara and Colorado flow today along
he same rocky channels that they be-
'an to scoop out, numerous ages ago,
'erhaps before the Glacial era had