SCIENTIFIC ACCURACY OF THE BIBLE.
DR. SAMUEL KINNS, the author of "Moses and Geology," has for some little time past been giving a series of lectures in the drawing-rooms of the aristocracy of England on "The Marvelous Scientific Accuracy of the Bible." The last took place at the Earl of Shaftesbury's, and was attended by a large and very distinguished company. Dr. Kinns, in carrying his audience through his course of reasoning, described the various geological strata and the story told by the fossil plants and animals of the earth's condition during the various epochs of its history. He especially interested them, however, in his description of fifteen creative events which he showed were placed by Moses in the correct order of sequence according to the latest discoveries in science. These events, which are very concisely stated in "Moses and Geology," were summarily described in the review of "Moses and Geology," which appeared in the Record of March 22, 1882. Dr. Kinns then proved that the number of changes that can be made in the order of fifteen things is more than a trillion—viz., 1,307,674,368,000—and, therefore, if Moses placed fifteen important creative events in their proper order without the possibility of traditional help, . . . it is a very strong proof of his inspiration, for, group them as one may, and take off a further percentage for any scientific knowledge possessed by him, still the chances must be reckoned by hundreds of millions against his giving the order correctly without a special revelation from God. To lead his auditors to appreciate this, Dr. Kinns mentioned that a clock beating seconds would take over thirty thousand years to tick a billion times; and that if any fifteen different events could be written down once in every ten minutes, it would take twenty-four millions of years to write all the variations that could be made in their order, writing them day and night without intermission; and to further illustrate it, he distributed slips of paper for each to write down the first fifteen letters of the alphabet in an order known only to himself, something in this order:— g m h d a j b k c f e n i o l And not one corresponded with his. He told them that if all the people in the world were to try to imitate his unknown order, there would be still a thousand chances to one that the whole twelve hundred million attempts would be incorrect. Or, in other words, if all the people in a thousand worlds, each having a population equal to our own, were to try, there would still be a probability that not one list would agree in sequence with the unknown list. After this he asked, How will the skeptic explain the marvelous, nay, miraculous, accuracy in sequence of the Mosaic cosmogony? —London Record.