Evening star., 1923-04-13
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS

ever did become general scientist
| master of vail sciences-but let any
one who is not such. undertake To
| comprehend that insulin will cure
, diabetes-and why. And that trans
planting glands renews youthful
powers. and adds decades to the pa
TENTS longevity-and why. And that
puncturing the heart tissues of q
person who has just died and inject
ing adrenilin-a serum from the
glands that control fear-will renew
life to the dead-and why.
| Or, let the reader understand that
| stars collided fifty years ago, and the
light of their confagration Is only
| now causing them to brighten, or
| rather to appear to men on earth to
brighten.
Or. how can the reader scan his
morning or evening daily and read
OF the opening of prehistoric tombs,
or the discovery of skeletons hun
dreds of thousands of years old, and
not become thrilled with the romance
or archaeology or geology?
He reads Of instruments to meas
ure the heat of invisible stars SO far
from earth that the heat vibrations.
or whatever their heat is, has been
centuries en- route before 1T arrived
enable US to look through stone
walls, or down to the bottom of the
ocean, where, perhaps we may yet
discover the world that sank before
people as the entire population OF
Germany.
All these things are everyday
topics In the daily paper. and the
reader. who does not comprehend
| them. misses great part OF the news
| he is paying for. Time was when
newspaper news consisted in local
happenings. scandals and crimes. Not
so today.
H. s. Dulaney, chairman of the boa rd
! Of trustees of Goucher College, an
nounces that he will make no moro gifts
to any college that teaches evolution.
He explains: "I consider the Bible the
greatest and most precious book in tbs
| world, and don't think Christian men
should countenance teachings contrary
to it in the schools"
! Who has ever proved that evolution
is contrary to the teachings Of the
Bible?
A professor of Kentucky college ia
| under SUSPENSION because he approves
| of the science Of evolution Yet he ad-
heres to his science as did Calico to his
faith that the earth revolved.
| X X y X
( Evolution does not say merely that
man descended from a monkey, but that
the monkey descended from some an
inal lower in the scale, and that, in
turn from some reptile, and that from
some cell Of protoplasm. But in all
that descent, there must have been some
guiding or creative power, Evolution
makes no pretense Of discarding the
! creative-the divine power. Evolution
does not come about by accident The
whole development Of animal life from
the original protozoic cell to the pres
ent civilized man, is repeated in the
formation and development OF every
| animal-man included-that is born.
Each individual starts his existence as
a simple cell, adds other cells, divides
cells, and forms organs. What mystery!
What an epitome of the whole science
Of the evolution OF animal life from the
! simple cell UP to man. 1t came by de-
| grees to perfection. but with all the
| lowest to the highest animal develop
| ment-the whole is a chain Of creative
! power, and absolutely nothing in science
| contradicts the Biblical story, which is
| a sym bolic account made S1mplesTor the
comprehension of the early races. but
not at all contradicting later knowledge
| Of the steps of development.
| Which is sssS-e Elajestic--to perform
] a sudden act Of creation-or to work
out divine and universal plan?
| God moves in a mysterious way,
l His wonders to perform"
yet a creation that comprehends uni
verses and millennia and the man OF
| perfection out of the protozoic cell
| tho dust Of the earth"-through all the
stages Of animal development, is not
less but more marvellous and awe-in-
spring. Whence comes the right Of a
benefactor of learning to set the bounds
of learning at his own back fence?
Copyright, 1923 by P v. ColIins)