THE entire worthlessness of scientific speculations as to the future of this world is shown by the two latest predictions, placed together in the Daily News. Both were contained in lectures delivered at Cambridge. The first by M. Martel was that "through erosion and corrosion of the earth's surface, the water-level was being continually lowered, and unless measures for preventing this were adopted, a large part of the world would a few centuries hence die of thirst." On the other hand, Sir Archibald Geikie stated that "a universal decay of the land was going on at such a rate that, should its progress not be accelerated, a comparatively short period would suffice to reduce most of the dry land to the level of the sea, and threaten another flood." The fact that scientists can thus arrive at exactly opposite conclusions should serve to prove that geology is by no means an exact science, and should suggest grave doubts as to whether, looking backward, the geologists have been any happier in their interpretation of the earth's past history. It should always be borne in mind that, when men reject the book of Genesis because it does not agree with the conclusions of our modern geologists, they are not turning from proved myths to solid facts, but from a record which has never yet been proved incorrect to a mass of diverse and contradictory speculations. This is not, strictly speaking, a scientific manner of proceeding.—London Present Truth.