130 THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION. 
been stated. He who considers the Bible a scientific text book 
knows but very little about either the Bible or science. The sacred 
volume opens with, ‘In the beginning God created,” etc. Nothing 
can exceed the grandeur of this declaration, and no words are more 
suitable to express the creative fiat. 
How far back these words ‘‘in the beginning” go no man can 
tell, and as to the creation days, certainly those were periods whose 
length is beyond our finding out. All authors hold that the time 
was when the earth was too hot to allow the existence of any form 
of life, and that by the process of cooling it has reached the present 
condition and temperature adapted to the necessities of living 
creatures and things. 
The question comes: On what portion of this planet’s surface 
would the proper. conditions and temperature first be reached 
suitable to sustain life? Would such conditions be-reached all over 
the earth’s surface at the same time, or would there be one place 
more favorable than another for this cooling process? If so, what 
are those favorable conditions, and where is that place? 
The heat of the Sun in early geological ages could not have been 
less than at the present time, and no doubt, as you likely are all 
aware, geologists and astronomers claim it to have been greater 
then than now. However, it matters not materially, for as soon as 
the earth’s atmosphere became penetrable by the sun’s rays, local 
differences of temperature must have been produced at the base of 
that atmosphere whether the body beneath that atmosphere was 
crusted or not. 
That fiery, molten mass doubtless would have orbital as well as 
axial motion. These motions would cause sphericity of form and 
create equator and poles and thus, then as now, granting, if neces- 
sary, equal interior heat, and equal interior radition, the equator 
would receive more exterior or solar heat than the poles, and for the 
following reasons : 
1. Owing to the more rapid motion at the equator of this great 
molten ball, whilst molten to the poles, the heat would by centrifugal 
gravitation be less at.the poles and more intense at the equator. 
2. The present axes doubtless correspond to the original axes, 
thus by their inclination to the sun the North Polar regions, receiv- 
ing the sun’s rays obliquely, would cool first. 
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