_But from this it by no means
follows that the fossils contained in these lower rocks came into being
and lived and died before the fossils in the upper ones_. The latter
conclusion involves several additional assumptions which are wholly
unscientific in spirit and incredible as matters of fact, one of which
assumptions is the _biological form of the onion-coat theory_. But since
thousands of modern living kinds of plants and animals are found in the
fossil state, _man included_, and no one of them can be proved to have
lived for a period of time alone and before others, we must by other
methods, more scientific and accurate than the slipshod methods hitherto
in vogue, attempt to decide as best we can how these various forms of
life were buried, and how the past and the present are connected
together. But the theory of definite successive ages, with the forms of
life appearing on earth in a precise and invariable order, is dead for
all coming time for every man who has had a chance to examine the
evidence and has enough training in logic and scientific methods to know
when a thing is really proved.
And how utterly absurd for the friends of the Bible to spend their time
bandying arguments with the evolutionist over such minor details as the
question of just what geological "age" should be assigned for the first
appearance of man on the earth, when the evolutionist's major premise is
itself directly antagonistic to the most fundamental facts regarding the
first chapters of the Bible, and above all, when this major premise is
really the weakest spot in the whole theory, the one sore spot that
evolutionists never want to have touched at all.
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