110 THE CASE AGAINST EVOLUTION 



by the Ptolemaic astronomers picturing the cycles and epi- 

 cycles required to explain the peculiar behavior of the heavenly 

 bodies in accordance with the geocentric theory of the universe 

 then prevailing. ... In Scandinavia, a district some 1,120 

 miles long by 80 miles wide is alleged to have been pushed 

 horizontally eastward 'at least 86 miles.' (Schuchert.) In 

 Northern China, one of these upside down areas is reported 

 by the Carnegie Research Expedition to be 500 miles long." 

 ("The New Geology," 1923, pp. 633, 634.) 



Nor are the epicyclic subterfuges of the evolutionary geol- 

 ogist confined to "deceptive conformities" and "overthrusts." 

 His inventive genius has hit upon other methods of ex- 

 plaining away inconvenient facts. When, for example, 

 "younger" fossils are found interbedded with "older" fossils, 

 and the discrepancy in time is not too great, he rids himself 

 of the difficulty of their premature appearance by calling them 

 a "pioneer colony." Similarly, when a group of "characteris- 

 tic" fossils occur in one age, skip another "age," and recur 

 in a third, he recognizes the possibility of "recurrent faunas," 

 some of these faunas having as many as five successive "re- 

 currences." Clearly, the assumption of gradual approxima- 

 tion and the dogma that the lower preceded the higher forms 

 of life are things to be saved at all costs, and it is a foregone 

 conclusion that no facts will be suffered to conflict with these 

 irrevisable articles of evolutionary faith. "What is the use," 

 exclaims Price, "of pretending that we are investigating a 

 problem of natural science, if we already know beforehand that 

 the lower and more generalized forms of animals and plants 

 came into existence first, and the higher and the more special- 

 ized came only long afterwards, and that specimens of all 

 these successive types have been pigeonholed in the rocks in 

 order to help us illustrate this wonderful truth?" [Op. cit., pp. 

 667, 668.) 



The predominance of extinct species in certain formations 

 is said to be an independent argument of their great age. 

 Most of the species of organisms found as fossils in Cambrian, 



