Show DO ANIMALS I REASON Extracts from an nn Address Addres by byr byr b r F W rIT FITZSIMONS IONS Il Director Port Elizabeth Muse um Muse im South Africa wIll wil die n Man kno knows knos s that one day lay he or die or rather the time will arrive or late when ihen hen he will be corn com polled d to vacate acate acate his body of mortal morta flesh No lower lo animal ammal knows knos or oren o otien even tien faintly realizes that death o othe the ph physical bod body v I is it inevitable or o that il l life l e continues to t function in m worlds of higher highe hig vibration But nevertheless animals di do dorea IQ rea reason on and plan then 11 lives es accord accord- accordingly acco d A common rat sees one o of its kind ht in a trap or kIlled kille killeby by poison the fhe others othe by i process I l of connect the traps am and ind I food W rn and avoid them th They do mote mOle The knowledge i 13 18 passed pa ced on to their theu- progeny hue frue some o of the latter are arc enough to pay no heed to the w warr n i ings of thur We see I this going on around u ui us every da day dayi i with Ith our species only more ex- ex exi cx i cly than with Ith the rat In thIs thu respect our intelligence I 11 less I th th n hu n that of a n latIn tat lat In the eaily eally das dais of South Al Af- J lIca'S ica's colonization colonisation by the v white wh race ace the wily jackal was as comp easily easily p poisoned or otner wise vise killed Today it takes a ery clever lever witted man to ss its ts destruction With all out oui mu much vaunted intellect the rat and the jackal ackal hold their own against us Does Docs oes the jackal a avoid old oui out pOIsons and tad traps by By no means By c experience nence it gained j knole knowledge ge and counter measures were cere put into operation In war warfare wi fare are we e do likewise Innumerable Innumerable- instances s of re rca rea- zoning in m wild animals could be cited especially among the man man- manike like ike anthropoid apes baboons and ad cys An in n a too oo made a key out of f i t bit of wite Wll t picked the th lock o of its La cag cage and escaped A photo photo- graph raph of the accident along aith l details may be sc sc the monkey room oom of the local museum The ele- ele elephant hant too is almost human in m Its i reasoning powers Yes indeed Much luch more human than a few 1111 lions Lons of the ut hum-ut race We can canI c readily realize the object of the c I of the brain bram center The main mam purpose o of the laws of evolution are arc to de clop P reason When hIghly y unfolded it gives es Man free WIll WIlland wand and nd insight into the future But Butow how ho ow arose It is as the theoles f I poles oles apart from reason VI We argue ancestors of was beast bird reptile I I fish and insect doing om the same things s in the sime s way ay for untOld generations But this can be coun countered countered by asking who taught tau ht the first ancestor o of the duck to S the squirrel to store up food for forthe forthe the winter the to build a I dam and winter quarters the bIrd to build a nest and the I Iler ler beetle to shoot poison gas into its enem s ce I I Who 01 ot what holt made the angle anglet I IWho fish glow a fishing rod out of the tel top of its head and a bit of ap app apprizing p bait on the end of it I Who gave ave it t i 1 t duplicate fishing 1 iod od 1 How did it learn to get a aI s si i good by worming its body bod I I deep into the glay o of the oceans ocean's bottom and then making makini j an earth quake It knows full well we I Ian that the ooze I im i'm full o of tiny crus of which are arc es cs Uy fond While the these e fishes arc are greedily their prey the anglet is busy feeding on the fish in the mUll y Who taught it to make a cave of Its ita huge mouth for the enticement of denizens of the ocean on Which it preys To make its body a rock rick it grows hk processes of skin on its body body- and jt turns the color of its tern tern- environment I Has all this come about by chance or mutation as zoologists I term it 1 Such an explanation does doea violence to ones one's reason and yet largo numbers of scientists some eminent emment in their profession holdfast holdfast hold fast to this theory because they will not admit that life has a spiritual basis They seek to find finda finda a physical explanation to all the I phenomena of nature There is design a definite plan in all forms of life animate and m is I no such thing as chanco chance except an occasional I freak or mutation which docs does not itself or on j become notI a I specIes Ll Life e n rth c was created from irom sImple formless eingle cell creat creat- creatures creatures I ures urea by the slow show but lUt elY ety auto bUI t e process ve v e term Backof Back Backof Backof of this there are arc laws and all forms of life h e and th then it 11 conform to those laws Does a ma- ma machine ma machine i chine drive drle e itself or a ship hip steer ma 1 its It o way the oceans No thel theta th ic e are arcs ar trained masterminds master minds in operation GiBe olac chaos I would ensue So too oo it IS i with Na ure ures s laws But the Master Minds are io not on earth |