Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-09-03

THE great God that formed all
| things both rewardeth the fool and re-
wardeth transgressors." - Proverbs,
xXvii.10.
What a lot of wiseacres are both
the fundamentalists and the self-Suffi-
cient scientists, when they become so
excited in defending their dogmas!
Now the controversy between them
has again broken out, through the con-
ference of science. at Leeds, England.
and the reiteration which makes mon
keys of us all. The fundamentalists,
in their extremity, squabble over sci
ence when it's interpreters dare men
ton the genealogy of man and trace
it back to monkeys-or at least to
collateral lines Of descent alongside OF
the monkeys-as if that were denial
of the origin of man by the great Gre
ator. Darwin lives again; he is in
dorsed at Leeds by modern science.
"Seest thou a man wise in his own
conceit? there is more hope of fool
than of him."
Who ever proved that man was not
derived from the dust of the earth,
through proving that in the millions OF
steps between dust and the wiseacre
there have not been as great apes as
the cotemporary know-all? Now
comes a scientist who announces that.
back of the monkey. there was a time
when mans ancestor was only bit OF
jelly in the ocean. 1t must have been
something before it became jelly--why
not dust? Who made it jell?
Then the water throbbed and
rhythm was set up which tickled the
ribs of that bit of jelly, so that ever
after. when it could feel that rhythm,
it laughed and turned itself so that 1t
received the full pleasure OF lt-tne
first Jazz. So by the rhythm 1t reach
ed out and developed limbs with which
it grew stronger. And in the course
of centuries the limbs grew and de-
veloped so that the one-tlme Jelly-
fishes became able to swim the sea at
will-they even got ashore and crawl
ed up and down the beaches ana de-
veloped lungs which could extract
breath from air instead of from the
water. Later they sauntered far from
the sea and became animals upon the
drv land: they climbed trees to seek
food: they enlarged their fms into
wings and-a few days ago Col. Lind
hergh in an airplane flew great race
with a. golden eagle far above the
clouds over South Dakota. Did that
nrove that Lindbergh was not de-
rived from the same source tnat
Matched the golden eagle? Botn were
in the element above clouds ana oe-
fed gravitation, yet drew tnei,
strength from oxygen of the air ana
not of the sea. Neither nyer SUIT
laws. Whose laws?
And the scientists! How long have
thew known all the wonderIui truths
which thew assume we common NOR
taIs should swallow whole? A CEN
turv ago, did they know the ape
descent of man? Did they trace the
chemistry of nature a thousand OF
score of years ago. and tell OF the
vital needs of vitamins in maintain
ing health and life? Could they then
look with clear vision through OPAQUE
ness, as they do today? Could they
use the waves of ether (Which were
in existence from the beginning of
creation) in talking and seeking
around the whole globe? What is
radium that it may give off it's rays
through endless ages and yet lose
nothing of it's own weight? Though
I take the wings of the morning and
flv to the uttermost ends of the sea,
behold Thou art therep'
Even Job scorned the wisdom OF
the wise men: For vain man would
be wise, though man be born like
wild ASS colt"
So it makes no difference at all, IN
the great universe Of truth, whether
man was created magically out OF
mud or evoluted through hundreds OF
millions of years from dry dust into
mud and from mud into jellyfish
and thence through fishes and quadru-
peds into a professor of a great uni
versity. Many a "great" wiseacre
continues to be a 'poor fish" to the
end. 1t would be a problem for the
professors to indicate just how they
differ from the ass colt. when they |
bray about the irrefutability of their |
latest announcements, even while !
they are refuting the highest wisdom !,
of their fathers in science.
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We ordinary laymen would be an !
initiated by the weight of the wisdom |
and knowledge of the scientists If |
they did not counterbalance each |
other by disagreeing.
We read the speech OF Prof Henry !
Fairchild Osborn, made before the |
America Philosophical Society last |
ApraA - philadelphia. Or. Osborn 4 J