The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-25
Forum Of The People
Another Angle ON Erolutlon
To the Editor of The Age.Herald


Since the anonymous publication of the
work known as "Vestiges of Creation, the
controversy on evolution has continued al
most unabated; and vet evolution still
stands unconyerted to Christianity. Can you
stand it? Here are some pertinent facts
some one ought to publish Our evolutionary
friends, both "modernists'' and fundamen-
talists," agree that mankind has been on this
earth anywhere from ten thousand to ten
million years; and yet how is that possible !?
The world population, at different intervals,
for two or three centuries, is a matter of
record, and accepted as fairly accurate
Population has more than doubled each cen.
fury and what has been in the recent past
is fair criterion as to the remote past
Suppose we figure backwards
Take the world population gofa January,
1900, say 100000 divide it BY two,
and we have 100000 for January, 1900
400 100000 for January, 100; 100000
900. for January, 1900 and so on back the
line. Try it out for yourself; but you will
find yourself short of population long before
you get back to the flood. But maybe our
evolutionary friends would not agree that
there ever was such a flood as our Bible
records. However, the population will run
out long before getting back five thousand
years.
Take recorded history, as accepted, and
figured as to the lands occupied, using the
dates OF first occupancy, and the calculation
again brings us back in harmony with the
Biblical record. Even the beginning of the
Indian civilization of America has been fig
ured out by the archaeologists from Indian
records and this too may be considered in
the calculation, and the results will be found
to be but little changed NJ
There has been some change; and some
say men have grown weaker and wiser but
the people of Egypt, three thousand years
ago, made paint and frescoed the walls Of
their tombs, underground, and we find that
neither moisture nor age has destroyed their
work. The paint is still there. The people
| OF Damascus made steel which the evolution
OF thirty centuries has been unable to equal.
The people of Baal Bee put solid stones in
the walls of their temple sixty-four feet long.
nine feet thick and eleven feet wide. weigh.
ing probably about thousand tons each,
| ana left yet another stone sixty-nine feet
long and eleven by thirteen feet, still lying
In the quarry, but moved from its original
position. Could our builders of today place
these stones in position? From the tombs
of Egypt have been taken articles of furni-
ture, finely carved, and inlaid with gold,
known to be more than three thousand years
Old Even records made on paper, or
papyrus, the paper intact and the ink "as
fresh as if written but yesterday" have been
taken from these under ground receptacles :
and honey, too, so securely sealed that when
opened it gave forth fragrance as if lust
taken from the gum. The paint we make
stays on house for a few years and il
soon gone; and the articles of wood we
make will last for long period only when
kept in the dry. Underground they would
be soon gone. We know of no wood prsserv.
alive that will make even a fence post last
thirty-five years, much less thirty-five cen.
turtles. During the war we were forced to the
Illuminating confession that we even had tn
go to Germany (Bavaria) for our ink with
which to print our paper money. But the
trade secret in Germany is held by peopIs
VINO inherited 1T from their ancestors DATING
back probably at least four centuries
The art of enameling brick plating one
metal on another; recording sounds or spo
ken language by means of arbitrary marks
recording numbers; making thread and weav
ing cloth making felt cloth and paper: and
| even the compass as an aid to navigation
our calendar and method of recording time
and even our religion, we learned from our
ancestors so far back that history itseI1
grows dim and hoary with age, These sam.
ancestors may have been rought and uncoutt
measured by the standards of today; but tn,
knowledge and the arts we inherited from
them prove that the great men of thos.
early days might not suffer in measuring
wits with the great men of today, and thai
If there is any such thing as evolution il
the mind Of man, some of our own people
must have been ''evoluting" backwards.
ED D. HAMMER.
| Alfalfa, Ala, April %, 1924