A NEW GENESIS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 16, 1877

A NEW GENESIS.

NORMAN MACLEOD once attended a meeting of scientists in which the meteoric theory was discussed. He seems to have been greatly stirred by the assumptions of what is called advanced thought; for he made a speech whose wit charmed if its logic did not convince. He afterward wrote to a friend that “perhaps the men of science would do well, in accordance with these last results, to re-write the first chapter of Genesis in this way:—”

“I. The earth was without form and void.

“II. A meteor fell upon the earth.

“III. The result was fish, flesh, and fowl.

“IV. From these proceeded the British Association.

“V. And the British Association pronounced it tolerably good.”