Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-12-23
NEW THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
Formation of Man Begins with Sto-
mach, According to Scientists.

mach, ACCORDING TO scientists.
That the formation of man begins
with his stomach is the contention of
several scientists of high repute. Cell
life, they argue, forms the digestive
apparatus first, and as these cells null
tiply they are crowded away and go to
make up organisms with relative func-
tions. Thus it is argued by those who
support the theory of evolution that,
since all animals go through this stage,
the human race likewise has resembled
in its early life the fish, the dog, the
cat and even the reptile.
According to eminent Haeckel and
other biologists, the actual beginning
Of every one of us is a stomach. This
has been called the 'gastrula theory
from the Greek word CASTER" mean
ing stomach, because, according to it,
the system starts with this important
organ and builds up all around it.
We are but a huge bundle of mil
lions of cells, and these cells started
originally from a single cell, and then,
| as cells will, they performed thee
mathematical paradox of multiplying
by division-that is, each cell divided,
| then each division divided again, and
continued to divide so that the increase
of the number of these cells was enor-
nous When a number of these cells
were ready they formed a colony, or
aggregate, coming together and shap
ing themselves into a circle, the edges
| touching a row of cells on the inside
and another row on the outside, thus
forming a hollow circle.
1t ia found that the outer cells take
up whatever sustenance comes near
them and pass it through to the interi-
or cells, after taking up their share of
support, until gradually one part of the
circle draws in toward the hollow.
forming the primitive mouth, the very
| beginning of the opening for the re-
eeption of food. Now the food is taken
| up through this mouth and passed into
the interior, from which it is distrib-
uted to all the cells, both those lining
the circle and those forming the outer
! layer
This outer layer gradually toughens
| or hardens, and becomes the skin,
| which requires nourishment, but not to
| the same degree as the moro active
internal cells. Here is a part Of the
story of the formation of all animals
having skins, and it goes to prove that
all of them began with the stomach,
and only in later advancement devel-
oped greater bodies OF cells between
tn stomach and the skin.
If you study sponge, which, you
know, was an animal when alive at the
bottom of the sea, you will note the
enormous quantity of cells gathered
around the internal organ, and If you
stop to consider that each bit of sponge
that you see is made up OF thousands
of cells, you may understand the early
gathering OF the cells and how they
catch their food, just as the sponge,
while fixed to rock, still gathers its
sustenance from the water which flows
into and through it, carrying all kinds
| eff matter which it requires. So that
all of us are stomachs only In the be-
ginning, and the lowest forms of ami
I mai life, the protozoa, never get be-
yond the stomach stage, for that is
| the limit of their development.
The evolutionists assert that each in
! dividual passes through all the stages
of development through which his an
cestors have moved upward during the
ages, only he does In few months
what it has taken ages for the species
I 20 do. Thus, though man started as
! stomach animal, just like protozoa, he
now passes through that stage very
rapidly, for in those months before
birth the child has to make all the ad-
4 vance through which the race has
| passed, from the lowest form OF ex-
istence to the very highest.
This means that, while starting as
stomach animal, 1t passes through the
| phase of all the lower animals, even fish
and reptiles, and only N the very last
months does it reach the perfection at
ta.ned by man during the millions OF
years that he has developed.
It is like a moving picture of the en-
tire progress of man, from cell to
stomach animal, from that to worm,
to fish and higher vertebrates. or ami
mails with backbones, speeded UP SO
rapidly that time ceases to be an ele-
ment, but each stage is passed through
with precision and facility.
In some instances the child does not
completely pass through all the stages,
for there are many cases in which
4 children have been born with the
spaces between the cartilages of the
throat not grown up, showing that
these rings of cartilage are actually re-
mains of the gills of the fish.
i Though we start with the stomach,
and were stomach animals ages ago,
we should have progressed beyond that
stage in all these ages. But it is held
that some individuals have not yet
progressed beyond the stomach stage,
i even though their bodies have.-NeW
4 York Press.