all coming time for every man who has had a chance to examine the
evidence and has enough training in logic and scientific methods to know
when a thing is really proved.

And how utterly absurd for the friends of the Bible to spend their time
bandying arguments with the evolutionist over such minor details as the
question of just what geological "age" should be assigned for the first
appearance of man on the earth, when the evolutionist's major premise is
itself directly antagonistic to the most fundamental facts regarding the
first chapters of the Bible, and above all, when this major premise is
really the weakest spot in the whole theory, the one sore spot that
evolutionists never want to have touched at all.

I fancy I hear some one object, and ask what we are to do with the
systematic arrangement of the fossils, the so-called "geological
succession," that monument to the painstaking labors of thousands of
scientists all over the world. This geological series is still on our
hands; what are we to do with it?

It is scarcely necessary for me to say that this arrangement of the
fossils is not at all affected by my criticism of the cause of the
geological changes. _The geological series is merely an old-time
taxonomic series, a classification of the forms of life that used_ _to
live on the earth_, and is of course just as artificial as any similar
arrangement of the modern forms of life would be.

We may illustrate the matter by comparing this series with a card index.
The earlier students of geology arranged the outline of the order of the
fossils by a rather general comparison with the series of modern life
forms, which happened to agree fairly well with the order in which they
had found the fossils occurring in England and France. But only a block
out of the middle of the complete card index could be made up from the
rocks of England and France; the rest has had to be made up from the
rocks found elsewhere. Louis Agassiz did herculean work in rearranging
and trimming this fossil card index so as to make it conform better, not
only to the companion card index of the modern forms of life, but also
to that of the embryonic series. From time to time even now
readjustments are made in the details of all three indexes, the fossil,
the modern, and the embryonic, the method of rearrangement being
charmingly simple: _just taking a card out of one place and putting it
into another place_ where we may think it more properl