Evolution. TO THE EDITOR.

Otago Witness, Issue 2664, 5 April 1905, Page 28

Evolution. TO THE EDITOR.

Sib, — Evolution may be defined to be a compound of superstition, imagination, and credulity. It is neither science nor 6ense. It ascribes to matter, properties which it cannot of itself possess. Its votaries can swallow the most egregious fallacies. It needs a foundation of fact and truth, instead of fancy. Having read your correspondent's letter in reply to mine, I am able to say that the statements of fact contained in my letter can be substantiated any moment geologically, biologically, and palaeontologically to any person having eyesight and a little common sense, notwithstanding the scorn o£, the professor. If I chose to speak of his letter as he does of my brief epistle, I would say it was an effusion of professed ignorance. I did not derive all my information from the literature of evolution, or my acquaintance with the glacial epoch from writers who, probably, knew no more about it than the professor himself. Let me state here for his and other's benefit, that our planet had a preglacial era when lignites were laid down within the Arctic circle, and when the kauri flourished in South Otago. At a later age came the pasty dominion, embracing both hemispheres simultaneously, destroying many forms of giant life, leaving dwarfed . specimens behind. Moreover, the glacial epoch has not yet departed from our globe. If anyone chooses to have ocular demonstration of the facts referred to I will be happy lo show them. Would be glad if the professor would take a lesson. It would help to give his prelections the substance of reality. I will just conclude by warning our intelligent young men who desire to know and practise the truth against the empty bluff of the evolutionist scribblers. I have now done with the professor. — I am, etc., Roslyn, March 23. J. Chkistik.