| Show r rTE r-TE GENESIS OF EVOLLT1OA There is much discussion over the notions no-tions of thebelievers in evolution Some df their ideas are no doubt correct because I be-cause founded on known facts But J I people who desire the truth should be j slow to accept philosophy in the place of sciencen That which I is demo strat ed ought to be received no matter how much It may come in contact with preconceIved pre-conceIved notions or what has been regarded re-garded as religious doctrines But the mere reasonings that sometimes take the place of scientific proof or are I tacked on to itas though part of it are to be looked upon with the closest scrutiny scru-tiny UnDe Development is undoubtedly a natural nat-ural law Evolution Jn that sense must be correct But that does not carry with it the change of one species tQ another an-other nor the evolvement of the inorganic < in-organic into organic life The genesis of theoretic modern evolution has thus been paraphrased from the biblical account ac-count of the creation and is a fair half caricature of that theory I And these are the generations of them i that dwell upon the earth And the protoplasm pro-toplasm begat the monad and the monad mo-nad begat the protozoa and the protozoa proto-zoa begat the rotlfpra and the rotifera begat the rrustacea and the crustaeea I I begat the molusca and the molusca begat be-gat the cutUe fish from which descended descend-ed the finny tribes and the cuttle fish begat also the dog fish and the dog fish begat the sea monsters and the sea monsters begat various families of am phibia and reptiles and the amphibia begat birds the scales and fins of the first generation evolving into feathers and wings The amphibia begat also the marsupial marsu-pial and mammifer and the mammalia begat the ring tail and the ring tail begat be-gat the gibon and other apes and the ape begat the orang and the orang begat be-gat the simia and the simia begat the chimpanzee and the chimpanzee begat the missing links which were probably Gullivers Yahoos and the Yahoos begat be-gat savages and the savages begat man who is nothing more nor less than the fortuitous outcome of the natural selection and adaptation of the fittest individuals Whatever may have been established I as to the origin of species nothing I has been proven by scientists or philosophers philos-ophers as to the origin of life Without belief in a Supreme Creator that must remain a dark and inexplicable mys terv |
