How the World Made Itself.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3614, 15 September 1890, Page 2

How the World Made Itself.

(To the Editor.) • ■ Sin.—Tlieio'is no doubt tliat M Collins gave as a very grand lectin on tbiß subject lately. Butthere at a few points in it which he forgot t sufficiently dear up. ■ Firstly, : ln poke of the original material of >tbi imvevse as being diffused thtougbou pace as a fire cloud of a vapour form f this was so, then this equilibriun ■ould continue for ever unless then 'as action from without. For withit jere could not be more iff one placi lan in another, or it could nol b equilibrium. Therefore, sir, ou see it would alwayskyc imained a .fire cloud and. nothing Ise. But he did not tell 'us' where lis firo cloud came, from at ; firso, liioh I think, flir, is an important oint. It is assumed that it was by 10 power of gravitation that this cloud [ ire rußhed together, and formed self into £. conglomeration, assumed revolving attitude, and finally comosed the several bodies in ; the faiverse. The assumption that the ] rimal ether was subject to the law of ravity is purely gratuitous. Until ie atom was constituted there is no ; ;ason to suppose that gravitation lusted. Creed of Science, chapters ! and 2. "Science has as muoh to do ) account for the laws of matter as for latter itself. Laws imply alaw-giver-world without law is a mad world." lr Collins maintained that the days poken of in the Bible must be 21 our days. Allow me to inform him bat the day has six meanings. The aventh day upon which God rested i not finished yet. Ho maintained bat the earth is as young as ever it fas, while it is a scientific fact that very body in the solar system is losing energy every day. Liven the un itself shajl get old and cold and sed up. According to soience it will e-a burnt out cinder in nboufc ;'four lillion centuries from its formation, t is maintained by Borne that the arth when young could evolve lifa pohtaneously from her own breast, iut now, being old and cold, she has ist all such energy, and has left off educing new forms of life." It was mintained that man was evolved a 1 east with a club in his. hand to rotect himself from other wild easts. It was, a grand thing, sir, hat man was provided with a olub. le was thereby distinguished from all ther beasts, being the greater, Sir, i it not more reasonable to believe bat in the beginning God created lie Heavens and tho Earth, and made idh to • have dominion over the forks of liiß hand ? Eternal night, t • God's command, awakened intp igbt. He called the elements earth, cean, air, He called them when hey were not, and they were. Man rom the dust he raised to rule the Me. Ho bre&tliod, and man iecame & living soul,-I am, k, ■' ,Huuh Mawhinay.