The next charge is that I misquote the scriptures. That's because I
don't know Hebrew. Why didn't He write to me in English? If He wishes
to hold a gentleman responsible, why doesn't He address him in his
native tongue? Why write His word in such a way that hundreds of
thousands make their living explaining it? If I'd only understood
Hebrew I would have known God didn't make Eve out of a rib. He made
her out of Adam's side. How did He get it out? Well, I suppose He cut
it out with a kind of a splinter of His omnipotence! Then our mother
was made from a rib. When you consider the material used it was the
most successful job ever done. There's even a serpent in the bible
that knows a language. It won't do. Sin, how did it come into the
world? Where did the serpent come from? He was wicked. Adam's sin did
not make him bad. Then there was sin in the world before Adam.
There's no sense in it--not a particle. Then Talmage touches me upon
the flood. His flood didn't come to America, because America was not
discovered then. He says it was a partial flood. Then why did they
have to take any birds in the ark? How did Noah get the animals in the
ark? Talmage says it was through the instinct to get out of the rain.
According to the bible they went in before the rain began. Dr. Scott
says the angels helped carry them in. Imagine an angel with an animal
under each wing. It must have rained 800 feet a day for forty days.
Why does Talmage try to explain a miracle? The beauty of a miracle is
it cannot be explained. The moment the church begins to explain the
church is gone. All it's got to do is swear it is so. The ark landed
on Ararat, which is 17,000 feet high. There was only one window,
twenty-two inches square. Talmage says the window ran clear around the
ark. The bible doesn't say so. That's Brooklyn; that's no bible.

If the bible account is true the ark must have struck bottom on the top
of a mountain. Would any but a God of mercy and kindness people a
world, and then drown them all? A God cruel enough to drown His own
children ought not to have the impudence to tell me how to bring up
mine. Why did He save eight of the same kind of people to take a fresh
start? Why didn't He make a fresh lot, kill His snake, and give His
children a fair show? It won't do.

Talmage says the bible does not favor polygamy and slavery. There was
room enough on the table of stone for saying man should only have one