The Washington times., 1925-07-20
HOLD DATA
Of AGES
PROOF
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ears into men, animals, birds and

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years into men, animals, birds and
fish.
They knew not the secret Of life
they only knew how lie mao
changed through time.
Man, monkey, whale and reptile
they asserted, had common an
castor.
As a preface to these stories OF
life, the defense gave out a state.
ment claiming that the Bible ltsell
declared tbs human body was
created by a process OF evolution.
Quote from the Bible,
This statement quoted the 139ta
psalm. as follows:
my substance was not hid from
thee. when / was made in secret,
and curiously wrought in the low
eat parts of the earth. Thine eyes
did see my substance yet being
unperfect and in Thy book all nay
naenbers were written, which In
continuance were fashioned, WheR
as yet there was none Of Them.
God Need Spirit.
The defense attorneys and the
scientists maintained that God is
q spirit and not the father OF flesh.
They said the Bible creation Of
man I'm His image meant in the
image of His spirit, not His flesh.
In their defense Of evolution, the
men of science laughed at the
claim of the Bible literalists that
the world began on October 81,
1904 b. G.
On the contrary they said, the
world was formed 1000, 000, 600
years ago at least, with life upon
the eaFth,s surface from $1,000 900
to sOe, ZOO, 900 years.
The earth once was molten, they
added, and before that probably
gaseous.
The sun above US, they eentin-
ued, once had an earlier system
of planets, destroyed millions OF
years ago by an upheaval amid
the stars, but later to develop the
existing planetary system
To prove the earth's age, the
scientists pointed to potash de-
posits in Europe as 20,000,00e years
old; to the upheayal of the Rocky
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to green sand formation in New
to phosphate deposits in Tennessee
as 100000 years old.
It took a million years, they said.
for water to eoFFode the Grand
Canyon Of the Colorado and the
Mississippi river to move south
20 n,-In
Why, they added, it took 1000
mental glacier to melt after it once
covered New England from Hart
ford, Conn.,, to st. JohnsbuFg, VI.
science, instead of being born in
1904 B. c., has lived on the earth
for $4,000 years.
Before that, extinct tribes OF
men have been traced back 100, 900
the ancestor Of man, ape, whale
and python,
Museum of Antiquities.
The man of today, they said, is
q walking museum Of antiquities,
which prove his. prehistoric rela.
tionships. He has $50 vetigial lab
solete) structures in his body, all
organisms now used by animals,
birds or fish.
Man now has an atrophied tail,
while the human embroy has a free
tail before birth.
Tests show that mans blood to-
day is closely akin to that of the
ape, they added, while some whales
have atrophied Yestigial limb bones
in the pelvic region, which indicate
this mammoth fish once walked.
And even the snake, the python,
has small but clearly defined hind
limbs, hidden beneath it's skin.
So the kinship shows today.
Whale Seems Ancestor.
Once the scientists said man was
the head of the genealogical tree,
but now they give this distinction
TO the whale as showing the great
est organic development while
humans roost half way down.
On the reconciliation of science
and religion, ii was Metcalf, chair
man of the committee on biology of
the National Reaserch Council, who
said: THE fact of evolution-of
man, of all living things, of the
earth. of the sun, of the stars-is
as fully established as the fact that
the earth reyolves around the sun.
Change, growth, evolution, is a
fundamental. pivotal truth In all
nature.
None of this has any bearing
upon the question Of God as the
creator of the universe.
"It is only matter of the
method he has chosen in creation