Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20

honor of Pope Sixtus-shows the human creation of
life s religion teaches it.
Adam, naked is reclining on his side and God the
Creator, represented old with gray beard,
and cloak, with arms and hands and eyes, and legs
and feet stretches out the tip of his right finger,
touches the tip of Adams finger and gives life to Adam
At the same time hidden under his cloak, scarcely
visible and not yet produced upon the earth God holds
Eve and some children in
That was the old idea of the creation of life Re
giOn taught that the universe had been absolutely
empty forever and forever. Only God in it, there
nothing else.
After certain time, which must have been very
long, the ruler of all this empty space decided to
create this planet And at the time he created
times the size of this planet, and millions of times
older than this planet.
Having made the earth and the stars, the allpOwer-
full God created man Out of the red EARTH and then
put life into him
Until the days of Leonardo Da vinci those who dug
up old fOssils-animas of different kinds-believed
that those experiments which God made,
trying TO make up his mind what kind of animals he
wanted. When he found that he didn't like them, he
left them they were, and didn't put life into them.
Leonardo, the great painter, the first who
suggested what every child to-day knows that they
had actually at time been living creatures that had
turned into stone.
The question How did life get on this planet?" is
easy enough to answer, without the need of miracu
IOus creation.
accepts breaches the sudden creation in week
of the earth and and the animals upon it.
Every human being KNOWS if he knows anything,
that this earth is millions of years old; that the ami
mails lived here millions upon millions of years before
appeared and that man himself has been this
planet for at least quarter of million years and
probably longer.
We see fossil animals that have died out-the
strous dinosaurs, ninety feet long; the great lizards
that flew through the air, the mammOths.
Everything shows that the form of life this
earth has changed, through the ages through the mill
lions of years, until at last man came
And everything in and in the other animals
has been handed down to us from animals that came
here ahead of
The five fingers on mans hand correspond to the
of the saamander that lived in the CarbOnf
mil Ofy
All the wonders of life the marvels of the body,
have been handed down from of animal life
TO another, changing with conditions changing the
atmosphere changed until have produced the ami
mails of our day, and man who rules them.
HOW COULD LIFE COME TO THIS EARTH IF 1T
WERE NOT CREATED HERE MIRACULOUSLY,
ACCIDENTALLY OR SCIENTIFICALLY?
Very simply.
As you read this, earth is being bombarded by
meteors that from the outside, flying through
space. These of solid matter come know
not whence-perhaps they pieces of worlds that
have exploded and gone to pieces, perhaps the results
of collisions in space.
Anyhow, WE KNOW that our atmosphere Is con-
stany struck by flying PARTICLES majority of these
small and melt or burn they strike
paratively heavy atmosphere
What call a shooting star is simply a red-hot,
molten meteor, coming from the outside world strik
ing our heavy air, and falling to the earth.
From such flying messenger of the outer
world life could have been brought to .Vanet. We