| Show and now flow Out Ou Of It Scientists of Denver Decide There Never Was Such a Pair lair Pair lairBY BY REV THOMAS THOMAs B GREGORY EGORY G pHE HE old adage ada c about fools rushing in where angels fear bear to tread re 1 j colv d a fresh boost at Denver Dener i At the meeting of the American n Association for tor the Advancement ment of ot Science in I that city it was decided that there never was either an an Adam or oran oran oran an Eve Evl S S Professor W J McGee who is supposed to know as much about ethnol ethnology ogy og as any an living man luau read a paper entitled Current Questions in Anthro Anthropology Anthropology Anthropology In which he practically demolished about every ever one of our long cherished ch opinions with regard to the early history of the human race In the audience were many who had h d read rend the book of af Genesis and Marl Mark Twains Innocents Abroad especially esp the part where Mark describes the deep deeo emotion that came over his soulas soul as he stood by Adams grave and from these thoughtful ones there came cam a loud demurrer to Professor McGees ruthless tirade S Professor George Dorsey Dorse in particular rose r se se to the highwater mark of holy indignation to think that his brother professor should have the temer temerity temerIty temerIty ity and the heartlessness to challenge the venerated beliefs of ot centuries and andor of or hundreds of millions of the purest t and azid noblest of the sons of men menA menA menA A venerable man who had evidently In the language of Daniel Webster come down to us from a former fonner generation wanted to know w by what au authoritY the learned gentlemen of the Association for the Advancement of Science made their sweeping statements There are two sorts of or people said the venerable gentleman and two ways of thinking the scientific and the tIle theological and the two have noth nothing nothing ing Ine in common They are as far apart as the poles of the universe and be between between tween them there Is ha no possible fellowship ADAM AT AND TI EVE BELONG BELONG TO S Now ow d the venerable gentleman Adam and Eve belong to the theology theolog olom gave them birth theology nursed them through Infancy up to manhood and womanhood and in the hands of theology it is right that they should everlastingly remain Theology informs us that Adam and Eve were the tite first of or human kind and when theology speaks science should keep silent Theology has a a way of its own on for finding out things and science has no right to dispute its claims The devotees of Genesis and the Innocents Abroad cheered at the con conclusion conclusion elusion of or the mans speech s1 and it looked for a time as if the followers of Darwin and ant Huxley would be swept off ocr their feet But lInt it was not so Cast down but not destroyed they got onto their feet once more and charged down upon Adam and Eve again with such force as an to make their teeth rattle that is Adams and Eves Ees teeth In a It little while the big bl audience room In which the association was as assembled assembled assembled became a second edition of pandemonium reminding one of Milton Miltone s account of the battle in Chaos between the good and bad angels The fighting blood of both sides was up to the boiling point and it wasas Wasas was wasas as clear as could be that there was to be no quarter War Var to the knife and knife to the hilt Was tras vas the slogan that drowned all other voices To utterly annihilate our first parents and leave us orphans In the universe seemed to be the one ofie purpose with one side while to such ascii dreadful calamity was plainly the supreme resolve on the theother theother theother other side aide THE STORM STORt CEASED And so back and forth the tide o 0 f battle surged like a great wave wae of the sea Now it would come from the scientists sd and roll over the theologians and now again it would start out from the theologians and go roaring onto the scientists But all storms must lull and at last quiet down nail and an the storm at Denver finallY ceased S SIt It Is as yet too early to fairly sum up the results The friends of the fir first t nt of humankind human kind claim that the objects of their veneration are still In Intact intact tact tat right side up w with th caVe care white while the other side boasts that the original mat inal pair have been deposited in the cavity from which they can never be extricated It was the freely expressed opinion of the unbiased and nonpartisan on onlooker onlooker onlooker looker that Adam and Eve got the worst of it and that it will be a along long longtime longtime time before the ancient couple fully recover from the shaking up they got in Inthe inthe the scrap The learned men of Chicago when seen about t the matter were slow to speak sneak Realizing the profound solemnity of ofilia the situation they were for the most part 1 art Inclined to be silent They did not to any appreciable extent com corn commit mit themselves one way or the other The only reallY articulate expression I was able to get was from an aged who in reply to the question What do you think about the controversy over Adam and Eve said with a heavy beavy sigh We Ve are living we e are dwelling in Ia a grand and awful time |
