366 



KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 



Thus, modern science and the doctrine of evolution cast in their evidence to 

 authenticate and confirm as good and true, because reaching in the direction of 

 creational progress, that rich element in our Christian hymnology. 



I next present the " Mosaic Calendar of Creation," day by day, with the 

 correlative facts of creational progress as taught by modern science : 



A brief account of how I was first 

 led to construct this calendar will 

 serve to explain it. Twenty-one or 

 twenty-two years ago Charles Darwin's 

 great work, " The Origin of Species," 

 was first published, and, for several 



Creational periods or epochs as given in the first chapter of Gen- 

 esii; and the corresponding eras and facts in evolution, ae tanght 

 by modern science. 



ZiyH. A. Reid, Sec'y Towa StateAcadsmy of Sciences 



To illustrate his lectures on "Evolution," "Science and the Bi- 

 ble," etc., approved and commended by the State Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Young Men's Christian Associations of Iowa. 



k,i 1 ! Primeval chaos, or the cosmical-neb- 

 lUe DC- i 111 I condition of the matter which now 

 dnDin"' • composes our so'ar system. 

 « S' [Infinite space already flecked wl'h 



1-2 i, other nebulse and systems of worlds.] 



(Xy* Tate your Bibl^ and trace the record through. 



1st Day. 



Verse 3 to 5 



Nucleal rotation, by which light and 

 darkness (cosmical light), were differ- 

 eniiatjd in our nebulous miiss, -first in 

 [be whole mass of our eolar system, and 

 subsequenily iu each planetary ma.<s 

 in its turn. 



2nd Day. 



Verse 6 to 8 



j A fire crust is formed, wlih hot, 

 j seething, fuming waters upon It, then 

 i an interspace or "firmament" of sui er- 

 1 heated air, then a thick, black sea of 

 i vapor or cloud-waters above. 



3rd Day. 



Ver. 9 to 13 



The coolino; globe contracts, thus 

 forming wrinkles In its crust; then the 

 depressions become seas and the ele- 

 vations dry land, and vegetation begins 

 to appear. 



4tli Day. 



Ver. 14 to 19 



j The thick, vapory cloud-sea ("waters 

 I above the firmament") of the second 

 : day has become more rarefied, and bro- 

 j ken into patches of cloud, so that sun, 

 I moon ann stars can now shine through 

 I upon the earth. 



5 th Day, 



Ver. 20 to 23 



Huge water animals ("great whales") 

 the ichthyosaurus, etc., besides walk- 

 ing and flying reptiles and primitive 

 birds, now appear. 



6tli Day. 



Ver. Zi to 31 



Mammals, "beasts of the earth, and 

 cattle," etc., an I also masterful Man, 

 now appear. [This completes the phys- 

 ical creation, ready for the spiritual to 

 begin.'] 



years following, the doctrine of evolu- 

 tion was kept in high debate. One 

 strong argument, and which was con- 

 sidered "a clincher" against evolu- 

 tion, was this : Birds and reptiles are 

 so utterly unlike in their structure and 

 modes of life — the one wallowing in 

 mire-gulfs of oozy sHme, while the 

 other soars away in free serial flight — 

 that there can never be any evolutional 

 connection between these two classes 

 of animals. Yet, within a decade 

 were discovered the fossil archgeop- 

 teryx, ramphorhyncus, compsognath- 

 us, pteranodon, ichthyornis, and the 

 whole family of Dinosaurs or biped 

 reptiles with hollow bones, gravel- 

 grinding gizzards, and other ornithic 

 characters, till the list of bird-like 

 reptiles and reptilian birds became so 

 full that no scientist could any longer 

 dispute the completeness of the proof 

 that the bird type of animals was 

 evolved from the reptile type. (See 

 geological chart, in Review for July, 

 page 138, at "Age of Reptiles.") 

 While studying this matter, it occurred 

 to me that the Bible account of crea- 

 tion mentioned moving creatures of the water and fowls that fly above the earth 

 as having been created on the same " day." I re-examined the old Book, and 

 found that Gen. i :2o, 21, was a most remarkable synopsis of the latest facts dis- 

 covered by modern science, to-wit : the co-ordinate origin of reptiles and birds. 

 The passage is so striking that I will quote it : 



I Sabbath: the spiritual day or era, 

 i during which the "spiritual sense" has 

 i been and still is being evolved and dif- 

 i fercntiated in man, as indicated all 

 .; through the Bible, and perfected in 

 I Jesus Christ, the culminant Son of 

 ■ Man aud the initial Son of God. Hence 

 ' it is holy or hallowed time — the crea- 

 tional period of spiritual as distin- 

 i guished from mere animal life. 



"The erenlng and the morning" [or epochal culmination and de- 

 cline] is recited for each day, down to the seventh; but here it li 

 omitted — thus explicitly indicating that the lerenih "day" or cre- 

 ational era is etill in progress. 



7tli Day. 



Chap. II. 

 Verse 1, 2, 3 



