luNE, 1931 



EVOLUTION 



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NINETEEN 



Professor O'TooIe is sufficiently acquainted 

 with the field of Biology not to take the 



^ late Alfred McCann's book, "God or Gorilla" 

 very seriously. However, he is so innocent 

 of any knowledge of Geology that he takes 

 Price's fantastic catastrophism seriously, and 

 he bases a part of his argument on Price's 

 ideas, which, in turn, are based on a purely 

 reading knowledge of Geology (p. 96-112). 

 He follows Price in denying the existence of 

 overthrusts, which can be demonstrated, in 

 the field, to any averagely intelligent high 

 school student. (It is amusing that Price 

 has apparently never looked at any of the 

 phenomena, in the field, about which he writes 

 so glibly). On pages 111-112 and 335, Pro- 

 fessor O'Toole kindly tells us which of the 

 results of Geology he is willing to accept, on 

 a provisional basis. 



The chapters on 'The Origin of the Human 

 Soul" may interest the pious reader, as may 

 the afterword. As they are essentially theo- 

 logical, rather than scientific, they do not 

 require discussion here. The chapter on 'The 

 Origin of the Human Body"' is based on the 

 same old methods the juxtaposition of ap- 

 parently contradictory quotations from various 

 authors, removed from their context, the 

 suppression of contradictory evidence, and 

 strained conclusions drawn on purely dialectic 

 basis. One is grateful, however, for his 

 logical statement (p. 268-9): '"the only choice 

 which sound logic can sanction is between 



* fixism and a thorough going system of 

 transformism, which does not exempt the 

 human body from the scope of the evolution- 

 ary explanation." With this statement we 

 can have no quarrel. 



Prof. OToole, while not a scientist (since 

 he has not produced original work) has a 

 respectable training quite enough to be held 

 fully responsible for what he says and how 

 he savs it. It is regrettable, but true, that 

 while on a more intellectual plane, his book 

 is as worthless as those of Bryan, LeBufre. 

 McCann, Price, Riley and Williams. It is 

 interesting, however, to see that an intelligent 

 and fairly well-trained individual, such as 

 Professor OToole, can only produce so feeble 

 an effort to disprove the fact of evolution. 

 Horace Elmer Wood, 2nd. 



PARADE OF THE LIVING. By John 

 Hodgdon Bradley, Jr. Coward McCann, 

 N. Y. 308 pp. ^3.00. 



This is the best-written survey of the 

 history of life which has appeared during the 

 present revival of popularized science. Dr. 

 Bradley is a skilled maker of striking phrases; 

 a stylist whose methods are those which most 

 readily give dead bones life, and even endow 

 them with speech. No one can complain that 

 Parade of the Living is a tedious book, and 

 its vivacity seems to meet material reward. 

 ^ To the paleontologist, however, it suffers 

 somewhat from that very quality. The pro- 

 gress of life has been slow and blundering; 

 the parade which Dr. Bradley shows us so 

 breathlessly has failed to include a new 

 phylum in five hundred million years, while 

 most of its participants have died by the way. 

 There were gaudy costumes upon its bands 

 and queer assemblages in its cages; but the 



bands were out of step and the procession 

 demoralized. Dr. Bradley's present tense and 

 active voice obscure the confusion, and indicate, 

 now and then, that the beasts themselves willed 

 to change. 



Yet it is doutful that these defects will 

 make much difference to the non-paleonto- 

 logic reader. He may, however, justly 

 complain at the absence of pictures, which 

 either forces him to rely on word impressions 

 or to consult such a book as Lull's Organic 

 Evolution. The chances are that he'll do the 

 former, and thereby lose some of the reality 

 which Dr. Bradley has tried (so successfully) 

 to give his narrative. 



Carroll Lane Fenton, 



Funnymentals 



"Such things as railroads and telegraphs 

 are impossibilities and rank infidelity. There 

 is nothing in the Word of God about them. 

 If God had designed that His intelligent crea- 

 tures should travel at the frightful speed of 

 fifteen miles an hour, by steam, he would have 

 clearly foretold through his holy prophets. It 

 is a device of Satan to lead immortal souls 

 down to hell." Christian School Board, Lan- 

 caster, O., 1828, quoted by Sprading in Sci- 

 ence Versus Dogma. 



Evolution is "a theory that will completely 

 undermine our present civilization, sweep 

 away all present standards of morality and 

 turn the world back into barbarism, and all 

 founded on pure speculation." W. G. Bennett 

 m May, 1931, "Fax." 



"It (Noah's flood), is the only explanation 

 of those great bone deposits that characterize 

 the eastern and western shores of North 

 America, and are found in heaps in other 

 portions of the earth. Animals do not die in 

 huddles, nor do they crawl to some grave- 

 yard and lay themselves upon the bones of 

 their ancestors to breathe their last, but such 

 a flood as is recorded in Genesis, drowning 

 the animals of the earth, would by the tidal 

 and translation waves thereof, tend to pile 

 them in exactly such ricks, on ocean shore 

 lines, with the final recession of waters to sea 

 beds .... 



"It would wioe from the earth those great 

 saurians that feasted upon its luxurious vege- 

 tation, and pile them up in heaps of the dead, 

 exactly as the Wyoming excavations discovered 

 them a few years since, burying them in the 

 rock of the plateau, 7,000 feet above sea level, 

 since their great hulks would not tend to 

 drift away with the receding waves as did 

 those of lesser animal life .... The flood 

 is the solitary e.xplanation of all these facts." 

 Rev. W. B. Riley, Christian Fundamentalist, 

 May, 1931. 



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