239 The Early Naratives of Genesis s-phere of science to contradict this. Personalty, I do not know of any worthier conception than that which supposes God to have placed Himself in communication with man, in living t r a e i l n at ly ion th s e w re ith wo H u i l s d m be or c a o l n c t r r e a a d t i u c r ti e o s n , f i r f omDa t r h w e in v i e a r n y t fi h r e s o t r . y C h e a r d its way and we had to conceive of man as a slow, grad�al I ascent from the bestial stage, but am convinced, and have elsewhere sought to show, that genuine science teaches no such doctrine. Evolution is not to be identified offhand with D sc a ri r b w e i d ni a a s n a ism re . vo L lt a a t g er ai e n v s o t l Dut a io rw na in ry ian th is e m or , y an m d a l y ea r v a e t s he th r e be sto d r e y open to a conception of man quite in harmony with that of the Bible. Of the fall, I have already said that if the story of it were not in the Bible we should require to put it there for ourselves in order to explain the condition of the world as i O t i n s. the question of patriarchial longevity, I would only p sa r y eta th ti a o t n, th fo er r e , a is s t h h e e re m o o n st t c h o e n o se n r e va h t a iv n e d t t h h e e ol q o u g e ia s n ti s on ha o v f e i c n o t m er e g sa r r a i d ly ua t l o ly b t e o c s o ee n , st t r h u e ed na a m s e o s n i l n y t i h n e d s i e vi g d e u n a e l a s. log B ie u s t ar I e w n o o u t l n d ec a e d s d t d h in a a t r I y a l m on n g o ev t i d ty isp in os t e h d os t e o o q l u d e e s n tio ti n m t e h s e . tr D a e d a it t i h o , n a o s f I th u e nd e e x r t s r t a a o n r d it, is not a necessary part of man's lot at all. Had man not sinned, he would never have died. Death-the separation of t s h o i u n l g an fo d r b h o i d m y, a t b h n e o t r wm o al i , nt u e n g n r a a t l u p r a a r l. ts 0f his nature-is some It is not strange, then, that in the earliest period life should have been much longer m th a a n n n it te b ll e s c u am s t e h a a f t t t e h r e wa p r r d o . ble Em ve fo n r a sc p ie h n y c s e io t l o o d g a is y t i l s i -ke no Wt e w is h s y organisms live so long, but why they ever die. I have referred to Babylonian story of the flood, and can only add a word on the alleged contradiction of science on this subject. Very confident statements are often made as to the impossibility of such a submergence of the inhabited
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