. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . itius, and New Zealand, with verymany other examples, all tending to show that the merefact of certain species being extinct, and others being nowalive, is no trustworthy guide in determining the relativeage of their remains, until we first find out how and whenthey happened to become extinct. Why was it that the lion, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, andelephant shifted from England to the tropics? Howwas it that some of these, the mammoth and rhinoceros, gotcaught in the merciless frosts of northern Siberia so suddenlythat
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . itius, and New Zealand, with verymany other examples, all tending to show that the merefact of certain species being extinct, and others being nowalive, is no trustworthy guide in determining the relativeage of their remains, until we first find out how and whenthey happened to become extinct. Why was it that the lion, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, andelephant shifted from England to the tropics? Howwas it that some of these, the mammoth and rhinoceros, gotcaught in the merciless frosts of northern Siberia so suddenlythat their flesh has remained untainted all these years, andis now, whenever exposed, greedily devoured by the dogsand wolves, it being as fresh as meat in a refrigerator? A warm, temperate vegetation, as well as the corals andother animals of warm waters, is found within eleven degreesof the north pole, and all scientists acknowledge that theelephants and other animals preserved in the frozen soil ofSiberia lived where we now find their remains; while Dana GODS TWO BOOKS 123. TOOTH OF THE MAMMOTH (Showing the top surface) says that the encasing in ice of huge elephants, and theperfect preservation of the flesh, shows that the cold finallybecame suddenly extreme, as of a single winters night,and knew no relenting afterward. ( Manual, page1007.) Howorth adds that this change of chmate musthave been sudden, and must also have been continental.(The Mammoth and the Flood, page 94.) Admitting this suddenchange of climate over halfthe world or so, is it not evi-dent that this same cause,whatever it was, may havebrought about a good manyother changes, and the extinc-tion of numerous other spe-cies which are so often sup-posed to imply the lapse ofuntold ages of time? If alarge amount of money hasdisappeared, we may havelost it at various times andplaces by carelessness; but ifa notorious criminal has beenaround in the meantime, it would rather need evidence onthe opposite side to prove th
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