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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1882

Well Said.

THE following, from the S. S. Times, we can heartily commend to our readers, as a good way to meet many modern infidel cavilings. It contains sound sense:—

"It is always a waste of time to try to prove a negative. It would puzzle us, for example, to try to prove that there was never a child born with sixteen heads and no body—the heads arranged like the points of a star around one common central neck. We couldn't even prove that in the dark ages there was not a large population of that sort of sixteen-headers in the mountains of the moon; but we don't really believe there was anything of that sort. And that is our position about a good many of these Biblico-scientific conundrums; this one, for instance, from a Pennsylvania reader:—

" 'How do you meet the arguments of those who claim that Adam was not the first man? I have met with some who say they believe the above to be true. Is there any work which will assist in replying to the above when those who claim it fall back on scientific reasons, etc., to support their theory? Any information on above will be thankfully received.'

"We can't see any 'argument' in the 'claim' that 'Adam was not the first man;' so, of course, we don't try to 'meet' it. It is our opinion that Adam lived very early in the history of our race. If anybody knows an earlier man than he, let him bring him on. As our correspondent says, 'Any information on above will be thankfully received.'"