The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-30

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school what i've only reed 10 books,
hus veu know that there WAS q time
when the seas we're werrn. steamlng
baths. aud the steam formed clouds
"a that the sun had never been seen.
before the sun appeared, the world
was jnst difEnsed light and darkness.
There's All answer 10 your Bible crit
IcA who say Genesis IL all wrong. be-
enuae il nhys light was made before
the sun. Light ala exist, before the
sun was dreamed Of. 10 far a. man y
concerned.
you're right. SIR answered Dom
aid, who like most sailors, was re-
llgiens man,
"And them" continued Masterman,
swhnt does the record tell us7 The
moving creatures that have life we're
made. aud tbs great sea monsters. Le"
yiathnn aud his kind, and tbs fowls
III the air. And afterward the earth
monsters, and creeping things. And
man nor tn the last Now don't tell
me. lieutenant. that the man who
wrote the story of the creation wasn't
an upsto.date scientist.
swell, sir. al last the day came when
the watera bud cooled, the clouds
opened. and the sun streamed through
ny that time the ocean wasn't 30
pleasant place to live Ia as formerly,
especially as the climatic zones were
appearing. No doubt there was rush
70 the equator ON the part OF the sur
face monsters. But the ocean beds
were sim warm from the hot rocks,
and the heat down there was good for
several thousand. or hundred thou
sand years yet.
$50 some OF the sea creatures re-
mained In the depths, and others pre-
ferred 10 bask on the rocks In the sun
light. Then their gilis began to be
replaced BY lungs, or else they had
gllIs as well as lungs, or an interme-
dlate apparatus"
''Common today, captain, Certain
lizards develop either lungs or gllls,
according 10 the medium In which
they live"
swell. sir, as / understand It, the
flrst organisms that came out on land
were armor plated, like the crabs and
splny fossil fishes. Their bones We're
an the outside. 10 protect them against
being eaten. But after q while the
progressive ones turned themselves In
side out. Those that didn't remained
like the turtles and dcgenerated. me
rest found that II was easier 10 escape
their enemies by using their bones al
props aud developing speed.
"Now. lieutenant, suppose men had
developed that way Ia the depths OF
the sea. Suppose you had race OF
men who had discovered. not neces'
sarsiy tnrnlax themselves inside out
like Is. although they might have done
so. buf ether means 10 avoid belng
eaten-Smg tnxlslhSlity.'
There / can refute YOU" answered
Donald. Man has developed from an
extinct ape, an ancestor OF his cous
ms. the four nnthropolds. supposedly
la chlmpanzeelike creature with tn,
structure OF gibbon. from which h'
obtained his erect posture. Your sci
creatures would have had 20 81
through the lemur-ape FORMS
"nut let Us suppose man who de
yeloped OF the line" persisted Mas
terrnan. "A manllke organism Will
} wsbhgd feet something like man
aeat How about mermeh1 DO yol
heiieve thoFe Is anything In tina
atoFyT'
n hardly think SO, captain"
slow about the old legends OF III
CyeiopaesT'
"a myth, Masterman. Resides, IN
/ Cgelnpa kept cattle and lived upo
hand
eEut thes ate meu. lieutenant. How
| ever, let as cull our mon Of the se
Imaginary. Grant that there Nigh
, 10 such creatures, though. You'll az
, inil that, With life 50 hard under IN
I ocean. they'd have developed NOR
! cunning along certain lines than Oh
, human race. And they wouldn't kno'
much about pity or love, or anythin
except how 70 find their food"
"rll grant that" answered Donal'
: ~ wo accept the hypothesis that sue
! creatures exist"
/ sGOodF put q pin there, my La
!. Now. as We were saying, after tho'
: sands 0f years the beat at the bptg0i
I ~ the sea would disappear by is d
) fusion through the oceans ever
t where. This depths would grow u
cold for them, It's bitter cold In n
I, water az 81 10 e. degrees Fahrcnhel
s wnnidRt the time come when the
+. too. would feel the Impulse TO migrai
q tnta The suaf'
~No. Mastermah. Their breathing
: Il know what yoa're going 20 81
.llieageuaht, You're going 60 teli u
J that, even II they could breathe al
k thay couldn't live when the prvssul
!, "a those miles III ocean was remove
nut suppose nature has heen bus
Is preparing fqr the change during tho
sands % years, while abe has hes
2 modifying their giiis into lungs. !
Is she worked GA the brpntosaurs. That
y how nature works quietly. softly. !
/. cretiy. Tin she's ready 20 launch h
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