Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-30

, modern horse, proofs that us hoofs have
been developed from three tocd and five
tocd feet. like those possessed by its nit
putlan ancestors ages ago, and that its
Z teeth. and other parts OF it, body. have
likewise been developed from the forms
which they had Ia its progcntors-sfter
seeing and hearing all that what would
you say TO the man who told you that
God created the horse at a stroke7
Would you feel that you were disre-
spectful to the Great Creator Il you de-
cared upon the basis Of the evidence
put before you, that he did not take the
horse In an instant. by virtue OF sud
den fiat. hut built It up gradually.
throng many woEderf lily linked forms
requiring millions OF years OF their ovom-
tion7 He has left the record of how he
did Il In the rocks, and where Is the
irrevcrcncc Of reading and believing that
record
lt happens that we have very som
plcte series OF ancestral forms revealing
the evolution OF the horse, but the evi-
dence that all species Of animals not ex-
ooptins man. have been gradually de-
veloped In a similar manner IL just as
clear and irrotraRable as Il IA in the case
of the horse. The monkey and the ape
arc often spoken OF as the ancestors OF
man. az n they bore TO him the same
relationship that the extinct hyrRcothe-
rum and philohippus do to the horse.
But the falsity of this notion (Which no
ovolutionist entertained or taughO Is
sufficiently indicated by the fact that
the apes and monkeys are our contempo-
raries. The teaching OF science is that
they are. physically, collateral and In
ferior branch of the order of animals "a
which man belongs.
The simple fact In that men and apes
have been evolved from some common
ancestor different from both. That an.
ceBtor has not yet been surely identified
Its fossil remains may. nevertheI ass
be somewhere embedded in the earth,
rich crust.
With the effect OF these facts upo,
the narrative OF creation contained n
the Hebrew holy books, science does no
concern itself. Science did not sot GU
TO destroy or disprove that narrative, /
set out only to learn all that n eouls
about the earth and tho universe. an,
the history of the earth and the universe
as far as they can be apprehended b,
human senses. II tho facts of evolution
had been known In ancient times tn
Bible would not have been written az /
was written.
Concerning the soul, science has moth
ing to say, because. TO that, II can appl!
none of Its teats. Il Is n conception
lying entirely outside Of the scientific
field Nevertheless, science does not af
firm that the soul does not exist. Their
Is no reason why the man OF scienc
should not be just as much impresse
as anybody else by the wonderful word
that Socrates addressed to his friend
when no was about to die
III the soul IL immortal. then doe
she stand In want OF care, not only dur
: ing this period which we call life. bu
for all time and we may well conslde
that there IL terrible danger In neglect
ing her, II death indeed were an escap
from all thlngs, then were II Rres
gain 70 the wicked. for It would be
release from the body and from the!
own sin. and from the soul at tho sam
timei but now. as the soul proves to
immortal there Il no other escape fror
evils TO come, nor any other safety tina
In her attaining 10 the highest virtu
and wisdom"