HIGHER THOUGHT TEMPLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1065, 1 September 1930, Page 13

HIGHER THOUGHT TEMPLE

‘‘FIRST DAY OF GENESIS” ADDRESS BY SCIENTIST At the Higher Thought Temple last evening, Mr. F. R. Field delivered an address entitled, “The First Lay of Genesis.” In his address Mr. Field said that in his earlier years he had regarded the ceration of the world as narrated in Genesis as allegorical, but when he came to study the earth’s history ho had been inspired with a feeling of reverence for the Scriptures. It had to be borne in mind that if there were errors in Genesis they were man’s errors. Man's work was imperfect; God only was perfect. SCIENTIFIC BASIS Mr. Field’s scientific work was based on his claim to have discovered the natural Is w of rotation. lie illustrated on a blackboard the rotation of the sun, how the sun had thrown off the earth and other planets of the solar system. None of the planets, with the exception of Mars aqd the earth, had a solid crust. They were all vaporous or in a molten state. The earth would revert to that state again. All heavenly bodies passed through definite cycles of change. It was a scientific truth, as stated in Genesis, that the earth had been without form and had been void. It had been vaporous. The breath of God was the wind. The age of the earth was calculated to be twelve thousand million years, and it would last out another four thousand million years. The lecturer explained the method of arriving at such calculations. The days of Genesis were periods of four hundred million years, and not ihe days of the week as now measured.

Even the first day of Genesis was too extensive to be dealt with in one address, and Mr. Field intended to continue his story of the creation in a series of addresses.