Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-04-21
THE STORY OF CREATION
New Discoveries Add Confirmation to
Bible Account.

New Discoveries Add Confirmation to
Bible Account.
Each new discovery Of Science
seems to add confirmation to the his
toric truth of the Biblical account of
Creation 1t has long been evident
general accord as to the order in
which things were made: A formless,
nebula, the creation Of light, the con-
densation Of the world into a whirling
globe, the separation of earth and
water, the appearance Of plant life,
the shining forth of sun and moon in
definite shape, the appearance Of ami
NAL life and, finally, Of man. But the
origin of life is still the unexplained
enigma Of Science.
Now, however, comes Prof L. j.
Henderson of Harvard University, ad-
vancing the theory that organic mat
ter can be produced from Inorganic
that life can be made from dust. This
is only a hypothesis, but it offers a
tentative solution of the problem, and
one that is in exact accord with the
Mosaic story as found in Genesis.
Briefly, DR.. Henderson's assertion is
that inorganic matter contains latent
life and that this life may become ac-
tive under certain conditions.
The materialist would accept this
hypothesis and would grope darkly in
his laboratory to find the condition
that might awaken the latent life to
activity. The scientific man who has
not lost faith in God does not have to
grope in the dark He believes that,
no matter by what processes things
were made, no matter how evolution
progressed, an all-wise and all-power-
full intelligence directed the success
sive steps. perhaps even endowing or
iginal matter with the inherent power
to evolve to ever higher states, and IN
the beginning laying down the ineXor-
able laws Of it's evolution.
Now let us examine the steps in
Creation, one by one, comparing the
immortal story told in the pages that
have been handed down to us for
countless generations with that which
has been pieced together from frag-
ments picked up from the strata of
the rocks, from the retorts Of the
chemists, from the microscopic slide,
the records of animal and vegetable
life, the silent testimony of the stars,
to say nothing of the speculations OF
imaginative scientists.
And the earth was without form,
and void, and darkness was upon the
face of the deep.
Science holds that the earth began
as a shapeless mass, a nebula, wan
dering dark and aimlessly in space.
And God said, Let there be light,
and there was light And God
called the light Day, and the darkness
He called Night.
That a whirling molten mass-one
Of a mYriad such masses-should in
the first period of creation experience
the change from darkness to light is a
part of our nebular hypothesis.
How long this first period, or day,
lasted the Bible does not tell, and Sci
ence can only guess.
And God made the armament and
divided the waters which were under
the armament from the waters which
were above the armament.
Science tells us that the shapeless
nebula had a spiral motion, condens-
ing toward it's center. AS the process
Of condensation and cooling went on
the earth became a globe covered
with steaming water. The atmosphere
was left surrounding the fluid earth,
and the mist that went up from the
earth formed the clouds. Such was
the second day" of creation.
And God said, Let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto
one place, and let the dry land appear.
and it was So And God called the dry
land Earth; and the gatherings to-
gether Of the waters called He Sea.
In the third stage, when the earth
and water had sufficiently cooled,
when the crust of the earth had be-
gun to harden, land appeared
And God said, Let the earth bring
forth grass, the herb yielding seed,
and the fruit tree yielding fruit after
his kind. And it was so.
That the first form Of life upon the
earth belonged to the vegetable king
dom, Science regards as almost axio-
matte. This was the third day"
And God said, Let there be lights in
the armament Of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them
be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days. and for years.
AS the earth continued to cool it be-
came regular in it's rotation upon It's
axis; seasons Of different tempera-
lures, somewhat similar to those Of
today, succeeded one another with
more and more regularity. The moon,
science teaches. was originally thrown
off from the earth, and it, too, under
went a period Of evolution in which it
finally acquired a regular cycle Of rev.
Olution around the earth. Thus were
days, nights, months and years estab-
lished with regularity. This was the
fourth day
And God said, Let the waters bring
forth abundantly the moving creature
that hath life and fowl that may fly
above the earth in the open armament
Of heaven.
1t was Darwin who first taught us
us II scientific fact that animal life or
iginated in the sea. Evolution has de-
termined that the early forms Of life,
from which man has sprung, existed
in the sea for many million Of years
before they made their appearance on
land In the physical construction OF
the human being, there is every indi-
cation that his remote ancestors were