p. 6 | Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 13, 1906

Note and Comment

MEN who dig into the earth are continually finding evidences of a great world cataclysm, and scientists are as constantly interpreting them to mean a slow transformation of the earth's surface during a period of millions of years. For instance, government scientists say indisputable evidence has just been found showing that centuries ago the Pacific Ocean extended as far east as Colorado. The Gunnison Tunnel, which is now more than a mile into the heart of the mountain, has just pierced a bed of black shale filled with large sea-shells. Thousands upon thousands of them have been taken out in the excavated material. One of the scientists engaged upon the undertaking declared that these had “undoubtedly been deposited in the ocean millions of years ago.” Why they should be found under the center of a great sea-mountain is not explained. The writer has broken open rocks in the mountains of Pennsylvania and found the unmistakable impress of masses of sea-shells in the rocks there. Would not this prove, then, that the Pacific Ocean had extended as far east as Pennsylvania also? And if to Pennsylvania, why not over to the Bay of Fundy, Cape Cod, and Key West? The fact of the matter is — just as it is stated in the Word of God — a flood of waters covered the earth, the fountains of the great deep were broken up, the tops of the mountains were covered. The earth was broken, and mountains appeared where seas had been, and many of the living creatures destroyed by the flood were buried in the terrible overturnings that

were going on at that time. This is not scientific, for it was not done by slow, gradual erosion nor by equally slow and gradual precipitation. Nevertheless it is a fact. When God takes hold of a world, he does not require a million years to bury a mussel bed under a mountain.