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ward rather than eastward, and forming the Hovas of Madagascar. 4. Negroes. Although the Negroes are primarily an African people, the fact is plain that negroid peoples exist in the Pacific and East Indian islands, as well as in parts of southeastern j Asia. This likewise points to the same point of origin as the Aryans, Mongolians, Malays and, of course, the Semites. The point of origin of all races seems to be the same, and the time not long ago. As to the latter point, if one will trace the fairly defi nite dates of nations of antiquity he will find a surprising number of them occurring about 1,500 B.C., or a few hun dred years earlier or later. Only in the great races of antiquity, China, Persia, Assyria, India, Egypt, are much earlier records found, and except as traditions of antedi luvian history occur, the first dates among these nations are not far from 2,000 B.C. One cannot possibly believe that peoples like the Greeks, Latins, Phoenicians, Egyptians, and others, ex isted for two or three, or ten thousand years, but just appeared in history, as separate, very distinct races only 4.000 years ago. Yet the theory of evolution would re quire that supposition. W hat E volution W ould R equire Evolution, by requiring man to originate from an ape like stem, at least a hundred thousand years ago, or by recent estimates about a million years ago, would seeming ly have had the earth filled with mankind tens of thou sands of years ago. As highly endowed individuals as the Cro-Magnons would dominate western Europe from twelve to forty thousand years ago, and that would give a far longer time than from the dawn of history to the present for them to spread abroad through the whole earth. If they did, certainly all the peoples we now know would not have come solely from west Central Asia only 4.000 years ago—not unless a Deluge or something of the sort destroyed all mankind except a very few. What would be required in order to fit evolution to human history as we know it, would be for ape-man to survive for thousands upon thousands of years and ad vance to Neanderthal standards; for Neanderthal men to survive for thousands upon thousands of years, only to
T h e F act of A D eluge Several lines of evidence can be presented. First, traditions of a great Deluge are so widespread that any clear-thinking, honest man must believe that there was some terrible Deluge such as Genesis describes. One must face the fact that the Bible and Chaldean tablets are not the only accounts of a Deluge. The Greek account in which Deucalion, the Greek “Noah,” and his wife were saved in an ark, and landed on a mountain is commonly known. Clearly, such a tradition could hardly have developed unless an ancestor of the Greeks, (being also the ancestor of other races) had gone through such a Deluge—either that, or there was a separate Deluge for each separate race, and few persons would wish to hold that theory. Next to the Hebrew, the Greek tradition of the Deluge is the best known. Other accounts come from China, from the Polynesians in the Pacific, and from the American Indians. In fact Bullfinch, in his Age of Fable, states that all races have the tradition of the Deluge. The story of the lost Atlantis,- as given by Plato, is an account of the destruction of the antediluvian earth, rather than the de struction of a continent in the Atlantic Ocean. The geologists and the historians who accept evolu tion allow no place in earth history for any great Deluge; yet the traditions exist and have to be faced if one is hon est and scientific. The creation theory accepts them; the theory of evolution ignores them, or tries to make a freshet on the plains of Chaldea responsible for Greek, Chinese, and other traditions of the Deluge. Score one hundred for creation on this evidence and zero for evolution. T h e O r ig in of M odern R aces The next line of evidence is the place (and time) of origin of modern races. Consider the place first. All races certainly came not long ago from west Cen tral Asia or thereabouts. That fact is plain. It agrees with the theory of creation and not at all with the evolu tion of man through long ages. The evidence for this is strong and direct in some cases and indirect in. others. Take the leading races in order: 1. The Caucasians. The name indicates the approxi mate place of origin. The Aryans extend from India on the southeast to the Atlantic on the northwest, straight across the district south of the Caspian Sea. The Cimbri (Gauls, Celts, Sumerians) certainly had their original home between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea as did—obviously:—the closely related white races. 2. The Mongolians. The earliest definite date in Chi nese history is given by several authorities as 2,300 B.C. (circa), and the place, not China, but south of the Cas pian Sea. The language is asserted to be Sumerian in origin, as was also the earliest civilization, and the earliest history. Naturally this brings the other branches of the Mongolian race to the same place and time of origin as the Chinese, and since the American Indian is a Mongo lian offshoot in part, they also have to be held as coming from this district, 4,000 odd years ago. 3. The Polynesians. Both the traditions and the lan guage, also many of the customs show conclusively that the ancestors of this remarkable race came across India only a few thousand years ago. In fact Maori traditions name Ur as the ancestral home. The Polynesians are seemingly a Malay offshoot, and the Malays seemingly came across India also, one branch in fact going west
Risen With Christ B y E . H. M iller In “The Presbyterian”
O soul of mine, to life’s new rapture born, Canst thou forget the splendor of that morn, When, through the chill and silence of the night, Stole the warm radiance of the Easter light? Did not thy Lord before the dawn of day Unseal thy tomb and bid thee come away? And in that sacred garden, cool and dim, ■ Amidst the lilies, didst thou not walk with Him? Then why shouldst thou, all trembling and afraid, Still bring thy spices where thy Lord was laid? Unto the heavens lift up thy downcast eyes. Thy Lord is risen, and thou with Him didst rise.
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