214 WHAT IS LIFE? 



the writer or writers of this legend. Having already 

 created light and given the phenomena of day and 

 night (for we must remember the evening and morn- 

 ing, with the intervals of nio-ht and day together 



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made a wiiole day), God thought of re-creating the 

 universe thus: he said, "Let there be lights in the 

 firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the 

 night ; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and 

 for days, and years : and let them be for lights in the 

 firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth." 

 So " God made the two great lights ; the greater light 

 to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : 

 he made the stars also." And these lights were " to 

 divide the light from the darkness." " And there was 

 evening and there was morning, a fourth day." 



It is obvious that to have made this so-called creation 

 in harmony with the facts the facts as represented by 

 the Bible this creation of the sun and moon on 

 the fourth day should have been the creation of the 

 first day. 1 



But when man, a creature so utterly insignificant as 



1 " Now it is absolutely certain that portions of the Bible, and 

 those important portions relating to the creation of the world and of 

 man, are not true, and therefore not inspired. It is certain that the 

 sun, moon, stars, and earth were not created as the author of 

 Genesis supposed them to have been created, and that the first man, 

 whose Paleolithic implements are found in caves and river gravels of 

 immense antiquity, was a very different being from the Adam who 

 was created in God's likeness and placed in the Garden of Eden. 

 It is certain that no universal deluge ever took place since man 

 existed, and that the animal life existing in the world, and shown by 

 fossil remains to have existed for untold ages, could by no possibility 

 have originated from pairs of animals living together for forty days 

 in the ark, and radiating from a mountain in Armenia." (" Modern 

 Science and Modern Thought," S. Laing, 1896, p. 251.) 



