Science not Contrary to Scripture.
WHILE infidels ridicule the faith of Christians, facts prove that there are none so credulous as they in seizing upon and accepting whatever in their opinion will discredit or overthrow the sacred record. An immense quantity of flints shaped like axes, arrow-heads, and other rude implements, found in the valley of the Somme, in Picardy, Northern France, led many geologists to pronounce that they afforded incontrovertible proof of the existence of man for ages before the creation of Adam, according to the Bible, though it is known that flint has a natural tendency to break into similar shapes. Some human bones and flint arrow-heads found last year in mounds at Caithness, in Scotland, were elaborately described, and authoritatively pronounced by scientific men to belong to a period before the Scripture record. A thorough investigation of the mounds, however, has proved them to be composed of limpets and periwinkle shells, and the human remains to be those of a Danish sailor, while a pair of tailor’s shears like those in modern use, and coins bearing the image of King William III, were also found among these “pre-historic remains.”