Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-22

are discovered in the sun and stars.
Matter Is universal, and II the inorganic
matter Of earth were destroyed. amman
life would end. DR.. Clark traces this
in describing how indispensable are the
minerals to animal life. Yet no
scientist has ever found how to create
a single specimen of animal life out
Of chemicals, nor even out OF vegetable
ingredients most nearly resembling the
food and chemicals Of the animal.
What life is. we do not know.
Chemistry, which has made marvellous
advances within the last two decades,
cannot create the simplest insect the
animal life has to be started by High
Creation, however 1t may progress later.
Burbank could create" new plant
out of old ones, by crossing the poAen,
or by changing the environment. Maize
is believed to have been developed OUT
of a certain grass of Mexico, and tnae
same grass has developed into 500 otner
kinds of grain. Who made the origlnaI
grass? Not one of the 500 grains ever
made a watermelon nor an oak tree.
Rurbank took the cactus which grew
hundreds of spikes to protect itself
against animals which would eat 1t; ne
put It in his garden and petted 1t ana
told IL not to be afraid, for he would
protect II from its enemies. Gradually
the plant forgot the spikes, for they
were no longer needed. So the spikes
atrophied and disappeared. How many
organs of man are like those atropnled
spikes-mere vestiges OF what mad been
life-savers under former environmenII
Call that special creation? NO. IL
evolution.
But there Is a limit to the power OF
evolution. DR.. Clark cites the TACT That
a breed Of cats may be improved ny
SELECTION and environment, but cats
cannot be crossed with dogs to make 9
butterfly. Yet science Of old has told
ms that all animal life came from some
sort of simple life in the sea. WnaI,
II even that were so-what started that
simple life? Who is its creator? MOI
chemistry.
To.a man on the fence, the dispute
between the fundamentalists and the
modern scientists Is not quite pacineo
by the declaration Of DR.. Clark that
man Is not descended from the lower
animals. nor does 1t necessarily exais
the power of the Creator to declare
that each particular species was sep
arate product Of creation. That Is
matter of method, not Of whether there
is or Is not divine creation. II none,
then what is its substitute?
Henry Ford once took hammer ana
forge and manufactured an automobile
the work requiring his sweated brow
for weeks. he could make another
with his own hands today. Which Is
the greater-a Henry Ford, blacksmith.
making an actual automobile, or Henry
Ford, who, through superman power
of organization and control, creates
5000 automobiles every seven hours?
And he sees that his work Is good and
rests the seventh hour.
Suppose some little insect In the
Ford factory should try to start some
thing by squeaking his doubts that Mr..
Ford had ever had anything 70 do with
making automobiles, for nobody hears
his hammer todayl
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These are momentous questions with
which science Is wrestling. AS one
scientist Of worldwide reputation said
to the writer not long ago: I'VE go on
searching, and as we approach the end
of life We are tempted to grow impa-
tient because we fear that we shall not
live long enough to solve the problems
we are studying. Sometimes, that i'm
patience breaks out into accepting
theories or jumping at conclusions. ABB
normalities are taken as expressing
some new principle, when they are
simply sports or freaks.
But the evidence Of evolution of man
Is beyond dispute. Today we are living
in the iron age: we use iron and steel
implements. Before iron. there was the
bronze age, and before the bronze age
there was copper, and before that, there
were polished stone weapons and tools.
and before that, men did not know how
to polish stones, so their weapons were
Clipped stones; they did not know lever.
age, so they had no handles to their
weapons. They did not know that they
could make tools out of bones.
Nov we are discovering all these
evidences Of mans development. Re-
Gently in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, SCI
entists dug up on q single acre more
than 100000 Of prehistoric tools, and
there are hundreds Of acres alongside
equally rich In evidence Of man-made
implements.
"Some one has said that the brain Of
man has not increased in thousands OF
years. That is denied, so far as con-
Germs its gray matter. True, a huge head
Of a Cro-Magnon has been found, but
with that big head was big body. re-
quiring q corresponding nervous system
and white matter of the brain-not gray
matter, which Is mentality. You cannot
appraise a brain by its size alone.
\ \
"We trace the Cro-Magnon back So
600 years, finding man and his tools.
We find evidences. of the Pithecan-
thropuS erectus, half q million years
old. Sir Arthur Keith, one OF Englands
great anthropologists, tells us the Pithe-
canthropus was a human being IN
stature. human in gait, human In all
its parts, save its BRAIN,
Then there Is the Heidelberg man,
800 900 years old, but the teeth are
human teeth and the jaw seems tran
sitional between the anthropotd ape
and man, and in the same sand-pit
were found crude stone tools and the
bones Of an elephant and other wild
beasts-his food. Later still-50, 900
years later-came the Neanderthal man,
and 100000 years later came the Pitt
down man-only 100000 years ago
and Sir Arthur Keith says. The P1t-
down man saw, felt, thought and
dreamt much as we do STILL" But he
had no steam, no electricity, no ma
chinery, no aviation, no radio.
1t is enlightening to read a book.
'L'Ologenese Humaine"-the study of