AN EVOLUTION BUBBLE PUNCTURED.
THE emptiness of the evolution theory of man's origin is well shown in the following reply by Dr. Henry C. McCook to an elaborate lecture on evolution, as recorded in the N. Y. Evangelist of December 13, 1888:— Now they tell us that the ages of geological time included about as many millions of years as you choose to write out on the slate. Well, all those millions of years ago certain spiders spun their webs, and certain ants taught the sluggards their lessons. Now, says Dr. McCook, the fossils of those very spiders that spun their webs between the fence-rails so many million years ago, agree exactly with the spiders that make their festoons in the corners of our porches to-day. All these million-million years have not availed to start them on their evolutionary career. The same is true of the ants. So it appears that our enthusiastic evolutionists need a few successive eternities for the outworking of their theory. Would it not be well for them to appoint a standing committee to watch the processes of nature, and report on the subject, say five million-million years hence? If the committee grew uneasy with standing, they might be permitted to sit on the subject every alternate million years.