. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . the whole basis on which the life-succession theory rests. 4. That the rivers of the world, in their courses acrossthe country, completely ignore the varying ages of the rocksin the different parts of their channels, and act just as if theybegan sawing at them all at the same time. Now we know not what additional fact can be demandedor imagined to complete the demonstration that this mon-strous, unscientific notion of a life-succession, invented ahundred years or so ago in a fittle corner of Europe, toexplain some loc
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . the whole basis on which the life-succession theory rests. 4. That the rivers of the world, in their courses acrossthe country, completely ignore the varying ages of the rocksin the different parts of their channels, and act just as if theybegan sawing at them all at the same time. Now we know not what additional fact can be demandedor imagined to complete the demonstration that this mon-strous, unscientific notion of a life-succession, invented ahundred years or so ago in a fittle corner of Europe, toexplain some local phenomena, is hopelessly out of jointwith the facts regarding the fossiliferous strata as we nowknow them. CHAPTER VIII Extinct Species THERE is yet another way in which to test the valueof this assumed Hfe-successi<Jn. In Eocene times, weare told, England was a land of palms. In fact, the rocksof this formation contain cycads, gourds, proteads (likethe Australian shrubs and trees), the fig, cinnamon, screw-pine, and various species of acacias and palms. These rocks. Mastodon Americanus. Remains of this gigantic elephant havebeen found over nearly all the United States and Canada. Thetooth was about six inches long on the crown. abound in England and western Europe. Then, again, inthe Pleistocene deposits of the same countries, which aresaid to be immensely younger than the others by many longages, we find the various species of elephant and rhinoceros,with a hippopotamus, lion, and hyena identical with thespecies now living in the tropics, together with numerousother gigantic animals.(118) GODS TWO BOOKS 119 Now the problem is. How are we to prove that thesevarious forms of animal life just mentioned (Pleistocene)did not live at the same time as the trees and plants (Eocene)given in the previous list? Lions and monkeys, hippopotamiand hyenas, elephants and rhinoceroses, now live beneaththe palms, acacias, mimosas, and other tropical plants rep-resented in the Eocene and
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