The errors of evolution Author:Robert Patterson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: over two and a half degrees, or 4,600,000 miles. Here is a new power, or at least a new revelation of a power unknown before, traveling with more than twenty tim... more »es the velocity of light. What is this power? What force did its tremendous energies exert in the formation of the heavens and the earth? Again, science confesses her ignorance. And yet, in the face of these acknowledgments of ignorance of the fundamental facts of the problem, these theorists have the face to contradict the Bible as false, and to offer to tell us truly how the worlds were made, though they own that they do not know the forces employed in their construction, and never can know of what materials they are made! And they call that Science! Beside such science, spirit-rapping becomes almost respectable, and the writing on Blade's slates philosophical; for the spirits say they see what they reveal, but the Nebular notionists confess that they reveal what they do not see, what nobody has ever seen, and what nobody ever can see. And they expect us to follow their " disciplined scientific fancy" away beyond the realm of facts into the regions of atheism and despair. " If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." OBJECTIONS TO THE NEBULAR ABSURDITIES. We have seen that the Nebular Hypothesis is a mere empty theory, unproven and impossible to be proved, from our necessary ignorance of the materials of the world, and of the great cosmical forces used in its construction. This ignoranceaitterly demolishes its claim to be regarded as in any sense scientific. It is purely a work of imagination—as much so as the Arabian Nights' Entertainments—and of just the same authority as a record of facts. I might rest the case here, and would do so, had notso many young people been lectured into the notion ...« less