Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1918-01-18

Isn't n God Wien we've done that,
Just as the beautiful birds evolved out
OF vicious reptiles. You know, Of
course, our ancestors were sea crea-
lures. That's why the specific grav.
lty OF the human body II about the
same MS that OF salt water. We were
made to live In the sea. We come
from fishes. You believe thatf"
ayes, science tells US So"
Good. Now you've studied at
school what I've only read In books,
but you know that there was a time
when the seas were warm, steaming
baths, and the steam formed clouds,
80 that the sun had never been seen.
Before the sun appeared. the world
was Just dlffused light and darkness.
There's nn answer TO your Bible crit
les who say Genesis Is all wrong, be-
cause 1t says light vas made before
the sun. Light did exist, before the
sun was dreamed Of, 50 far M man Ii
concerned.
"You're right, sir" answered Dom
aid, who like most %snllors, was a re-
llglous u
"And then" continued Mastermnn,
"whnt does the record tell us2 The
moving creatures TINT have life we're
made, and the great sen monsters, Lee
vlathan and his kind, and the fowls
OF the air. And afterward the earth
monsters, and creeping things. And
man not TIL the last. Now don't tell
me, lieutenant, that the man who
wrote the story OF the creation wasn't
an up-to-dnte scientist.
"Well, sir, at last the day came when
the waters had cooled, the clouds
opened, and the sun streamed through.
by that time the ocean wasn't SO
pleasant n place to live In rs formerly,
especially as the climatic zones were
appearing. No doubt there was a rush
to the equator on the part OF the sur
face monsters. But the ocean beds
were still 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-
malned In the depths, and others pre-
terred 10 bask on the rocks In the sun
light. Then their gllls began to be
replaced by lungs, or else they had
gllls as well MS lungs, or an lnterme-
date apparatus"
Common today, captain. Certain
lizards develop either lungs or gills,
according to the medium In which
they live"
"Well, sir, MS I understand II, the
first organisms that came out on land
were armor plated, like the crabs and
splny fossil fishes. Their bones were
IN the outside, to protect them against
being eaten. But after n while the
progressive ones turned themselves In
side out. Those that didn't, remained
like the turtles and degenerated. The
rest found that II was easier to escape
their enemies by using their bones as
props and developing speed.
Nov, lieutenant, suppose men had
developed that way In the depths OF
the sea. Suppose you had II race OF
men who had discovered, not neces-
snrlly turning themselves inside out,
like MS, although they might have done
W. NNA VAnAA MANhhn W ANNAA hNAhb
eaten-say lnvislbility."
"rhoro I can refute YOU answered
Donald. "NIan has developed from an
extinct ape, nn ancestor OF his cous-
ins. the four ~anthropolds, supposedly
n chlmpanzeellke creature with the
structure OF u gibbOn, from which I've
obtnlned his erect posture, Your sea
creatures would have had to 80
through the lemur-ape forms"
"But let us suppose a man who de-
Vcloped on the line" persisted Mas
terman. "a manllke organism with
webbed feot-somcthlng like n man.
seal. How about mermen? DO you
believe there Is anything Ia that
storyf"
Il hardly think so, captain"
"How nbout the old legends OF the
Cyclopses7"
"a myth, Mastcrman. Besides, the
Cyclops kept cattle and lived upon
land"
"But they ate men, lieutenant. How
ever, let us call IA men OF the sea
Imaginary. Grant that there might
be such creatures, though. You'll nd
init that, with life 80 hard under the
ocean, they'd have developed more
cunning along certain lines than the
human c And they wouldn't know
much about pity or love, or anything
except how TO find their food"
sTll grant that" answered Donald,
M we accept the hypothesis hat such
creatures exist"
"uoodl Put a pin there, my lad.
Nnw ma wa yvera eavlnp aftar ,hou.