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who was the son in a thousandth descent, of some pre-Adamite man, 
who was the son, in 'the ten thousandth generation, of some ape, chim- 
panzee, or gorilla, which was the son, or creature at least, of God. But 
those, if such there be, who can stretch the words of God so far, to 
make them fit the supposed exigencies of modern thought, will never 
persuade infidels that they are honest in this process of accommodation. 
The author of Supernatural Religion speaks with contempt of “the 
profoundly illogical zeal of distinguished men within the Church,” who 
endeavour “to arrest for a moment the pursuing wolves of doubt and 
unbelief by throwing to them scrap by scrap every element which does not 
quite accord with current opinion.” The nature of my own argument is 
clear as the day. If distinct and repeated statements of the Bible, linked with 
the very foundations of the faith, are to be rejected, something more than a 
“perhaps” or “ peradventure,” or loose notions about what we think was the 
probable lapse of time from Adam to the first negro, can alone warrant their 
rejection. Now the one definite argument I find amidst a sea of conjec- 
tures and loose guesswork is this, that traces of man’s presence are first 
found soon after what is called the Glacial age or Boulder Drift period. 
Next, Mr. Croll, in an elaborate and ingenious theory, very widely accepted, 
ascribes this to a definite astronomical cause, and places it just about 200,000 
years ago. I have shown, on the grounds of pure science, that this theory, 
however great the labour and skill bestowed upon it, is radically defective, 
and that at the period in question the more correct and scientific conclusion 
is, that the winter in Great Britain would be just as cold as the winter in 
Canada, but the summer heat 30 deg. higher than the summer of Canada 
or our own. To complete the defence of the Bible from its assailants 
under this head, it would be needful to propose a different explanation of 
the facts, in harmony with the statements of Scripture. This I think 
that I see clearly, and I shall hope to unfold it at some future time. 
REMARKS BY C. R, BREE, M.D., F.Z.S. 
Human remains have not been found in any well-marked geological stratum. 
Certain implements, said to have been of human manufacture, have been 
found in caves, gravel, and kitchen-middens of doubtful age, though evidently 
much older than the time allotted to man’s existence on earth. But, as 
Dr. Currey remarks, we have no definite human chronology mentioned in 
Scripture ; so there is no contradiction. There can be no doubt but that 
man lived on the earth much before 7,000 years ago, but we have no proof in 
the records of geology that his life began in any well-known geological epoch. 
The real fact of value is that no remains of man or his antecedent, “ the 
hairy cocked-eared wild man ” of Darwin, have hitherto been found in any 
geological stratum. The paper certainly does not deserve the charge brought 
against it in Dr. Currey’s concluding remarks. 
