Valuable Testimony

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 19, 1908

Valuable Testimony

THE following extract from one of our exchanges is worthy of being passed along:—

Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, of the United States National Museum, does not accept the claims put forth by a certain class of scientists, that man existed on the American continent many thousands of years ago. In a recent statement in the New York Herald he mentions fourteen sets of bones that have been found in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, for which an antiquity was claimed of from 50,000 to 250,000 years; but on close examination of some of them that were found in the lower levels of the earth, which apparently proved their great antiquity, he found marks of teeth upon them, indicating that some burrowing animal had been the means by which they had reached their position in the underlying “strata.” Thus is another “proof” of the inaccuracy of the Bible weighed in the balances and found wanting.

Position after position that has been positively taken against the Bible by “scientists” has been disproved beyond a possibility of reasonable questioning during recent years. The very stones

have actually begun to cry out in defense of the Word of God, and the “refuge of lies” is being successfully assailed by the conscientious seekers after truth. But the most unexplainable part of the campaign lies in the continual augmenting of the ranks of doubt by accessions from the professed church of Christ at the very time when the testimony of the higher critics and purveyors of doubt is being impeached by evidence that can not be overthrown. The patient excavations and delvings in the crumbling mounds of ancient Chaldea, Assyria, and Egypt are bringing up witnesses that will leave this generation without excuse for doubting the Word of God.