such a foundation.

=b.= We will consider, therefore, in the next place, the so-called proofs
taken from the =geological= realm.

Dr. T. H. Morgan, who was quoted above as against the theory of the
inheritance of acquired characters, rests his faith in the theory of
evolution on a geological foundation. He says:

The direct evidence furnished by fossil remains is by all
odds the strongest evidence we have in favor of organic
evolution.

Has present-day science anything to say about this? In spite of the
collapse of the supposed biological proofs, are there any tangible and
scientifically established proofs in the geological realm?

Professor Price, who, as noted above, is a geologist, and therefore speaks
according to first-hand knowledge, shows that fossil remains are deposited
over many thousands of square miles in widely separated sections of the
earth, not only in the opposite order from that required to prove the
theory of evolution, but in a great variety of orders, demonstrating, as he
says, that they cannot be arranged off into ages, but that they simply
indicate different forms of life that existed side by side. He then
exclaims:

=How much of the earth's crust would we have to find= in this
upside down order of the fossils, before we would be
convinced that there must be something hopelessly wrong with
the theory of Successive Ages which drives otherwise
competent observers to throw away their common sense and
cling desperately to a fantastic theory in the very teeth of
such facts?

Then he tells us that

the theory of Successive Ages, with the forms of life
appearing on earth in a precise and invariable order, is dead
for 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 he concludes that the work of strict inductive science has destroyed
this "fantastic scheme" forever,

and thus =leaves the way open= to say that life must have
originated by just such a literal creation as is recorded in
the first chapters of the Bible.

If these statements have any meaning at all, they can mean only that the
geological foundation for the theory of evolution has also collapsed.

=c.= It remains for us to listen to the testimony of a few more men of
science concerning the =whole theory= of evolution in general.

P