The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-23

finger, touches the\tip of Adum's finger and gives
life to Adam.
1t the same time, hidden under his cloak scarcely
visible, and not yet produced upon the EARTH God
holds Eve and some children in reserve.
That was the old idea of the Of life. Re-
liSion taught that the universe had been absolute
~ empty forever and forever. Only God was in it,
there was nothing else.
After certain time, which must have been very
long, the ruler of all this empty space decided to
create this planet. And mt the same time he ere.
''eu mo stars which we now know to he suns
millions of times the size of this planet and mil
lions of times older than this planet.
Having made the earth and the stars, the all
powerful God created man "out of the red EARTH
and then put life into him.
tntil The days of Leonardo Da Vinci those who
utS up old fossils-animals OF different kinds
believed that those experiments which God
once made. trying to make up his mind what kind
of animals he wanted. when he found ont that he
didn't like them, he left them ms they were and
didnt put life into them.
Leonardo, the great painter was the first man
who suggested what every child to-day knows that
they had actually at one time been living creatures
that had turned into stone.
the question: How did life get on this pInncto"
is cesy enough to answer without the need of mi
No intelligent man, clergyman or otherwise. now
accepts or breaches the sudden creation i'm one
week OF the earth and man and the animals upon If
EVERY human beng KNOWS. If he knows any,
'nG tlat this earth is millions years old; TINT
~ '''.'"''"s Weo mere millions upon millions OF
year" Before man appeared, and that man himself
has been on this planet for al Ieast quarter of n
million years and probably longer
We fossil animals that have died out-the
fpe lone.
lizards that flew through, tho air, the manmoths
h'efSthinf shows us that the form of life OH this
carth mas changed through the ages, through the
millions Of years, until at last man came
and everything i'll and i'm the other animate
has been handed down to from animals that came
here ahead OF ms.
Ihe five fingers ON mans hand correspond to the
live toes of the salamaHder that lived in the Car.
bohiferous era, millions of years ago
Al! the wondors Of life, the mnryels of the bodv
nave pee" h'hoed down from one age of ANIMAL
lie /" another, changing with conditions chang
ing as the atmosphere changed until we boxc nro
o"ccd the animals of our day, and man who rules
them.
HOW COULD LIFE COME TO THIS EARTH
~ i'T WERE NOT CREATED HERE MIRaCU.
LoCSL1. ACCIDENTALLY OR SCIENTIFICALLY?
Very simple
AS you read this, earth is being bOmbarled
by mctcors that from the outside hyinp
through space These masses of solid matter come
we know not whence-perhaps they are pieces of
worlds that have exploded and gone to pieces per.
haps the results of collisions in space
Anyhow, WE KNOW that our atmosphere is con.
stantiy struck by flying particles a majority Of
these are small and melt burn up as they strike
our comparatively heavy atmosphere
What we call a shooting star is simply a red-hot
molten meteor, coming from the outside world,
striking our heavy air, and falling to the earth.
From some such flying messenger Of the outer