The Washington times., 1925-07-20
whether immediate flat or gradual
growth accomplished by divergence.
Real Method of God

whether immediate flat or gradual
growth accomplished by divergence.
Real Method of God
"The evidence. is Overwhelming
that the -latter was and is his
method. God is just as truly and
just as intimately acting in the
gradual growth of a plant from
seed or of q man from a feftilized
egg as he would be in creating
the full grown plant or man all at
once in a thousandth part of
second Of time.
There is no conflict, no least
degree of conflict, between the
Bible and the fact OF evolution, but
the literaiist Interpretation Of the
words OF the Bible is not only
puerile; it is insulting, both to God
and to human intelligence.
Mississippi River Changes.
1--WE know that originally the
mouth of the Mississippi river was
near Cairo. ILL.,, and that all of the
Mississippi valley, as we now know
It was at the time close of the
eretacious period. part OF much
larger gulf of Mexico than the one
that now exists.
eAiI of West Tennessee, during
this time was in a northern extern
sion of the Gulf of Mexico, and the
fine China clay deposits of that
section were laid down in shallow
water at the time tropical plants
flourished in that section"
Doctor Fay Cooper Cole, anthro-
peligist at the University of Chi,
cago. said in part:
1.-THE anthrooologist quickly finds
that every human being of today
possesses many muscles for which
there is no apparent use, sIIch mus
cles as those behind the ears, those
going to the tail, and the nlatysma
muscles going from the chin to the
claVicle.
"These are a few among many
which today are functionless in man,
but are still in use by certain ami
mails.
"Sueh a case is the free tail pos
sessed by every human embryo a
few weeks before birth.
1T appears that both man and
the other primates have a common
pFecuFses, but that the anthropcids
must have branched off from the
common stock in very remote
times"
The evil effects of the Tennessee
law upon public education were
stressed by Doctor Charles Hubbard
Judd, noted educator from the Uni
Versity of Chicago. He said in part:
Faced SquareIy by Science.
II was Curtis, zoelogist at Mis-.
souri, University, who added:
Science and common sense alike
INQUIRE regarding the nature and
sources of the special creation as
found in Genesis,
Science faces ~the matter square.
ly desiring only the right to inves-
tigate and draw unprecedented con-
clusIcns.
The results of such investiga-
tons are not in doubt.
1T appears that the races about
the eastern Mediterranean, like
other primitive peoples, had their
traditions OF the origin of the
world.
THE story in Gepesis apparently
descended to the early Hebrews and
to their neighbors in Mesopotamia
from source far antedating the
appearance of the Jews as a people
and their sacred writings.
Archaeology and ethnology most
reasonably indicate that in it's
origin this Hebrew -Babylonian tradi-
| ton may be compared with the
| stories of many other primitive
peoples.
I'VE take the story in Genesis
seriously as an account of prehis.
toTical facts because it Is our story
of creation passed down by trad.
| ton from our fathers.
1T is and will remain sacred and
interesting because it has been
woven into the thought of western
! culture for almost 1000 years AMI
because of its intrinsic literary and
moral qualities.
Answer Is Evolution.
But the past history OF events,
whether of human or animal or
igins. is subject matter for scienti-
| fic inquiry and the answer of
science is evolution.
| at is not that man came from
monkeys, but that men, monkeys
and apes all come from a common
mammalian ancestry millions Of
years in the past.
ut IL more reasonable to believe
that the Bible is a human document,
representing the history Of an i'd
vance from the concept Of bar
! barous and vengeful Jehovah OF
the earlier old testament, through
the God Of righteousness and jus
tice OF the later prophets, and cul-
minating In the concept Of a futher
as preached by Jesus of Nazareth"
| "As for mans similarity 10 the
animal Kingdom, Curtis said: "The
fllpper Of n whale, the wing OF a
bird. the fOrefeet Of a horse and
the arm Of man. all show the same
| plan OF structure.
THE biological explanation Of
this anatomical resemblance In that
! the present vertebrates dishes,