"them. The story lacks even originality. Among "the Greeks many persons had gods for fathers. "Among Hindoos and Egyptians these god-men were "common. So in many other countries the blood of "gods was in the veins of men. Such wonders told "in Sanscrit are just as reasonable as when told in "Hebrew; just as reasonable in India as in Palestine. "Of course, there is no evidence that any human being had a god for a father, or a goddess for a "mother. Intelligent people have outgrown these "myths. Centaurs, satyrs, nymphs, and god-men "have faded away. Science murdered them all "

(Vol. XII, pp. 309–10).

However the apologist may twist and interpret such passages as these, it remains true that the Biblical story of the world and man is, even on broad lines, as far removed as possible from the truth. No matter how much the Hebrew text of Genesis may be forced into modern meanings, and in spite of the claim that God accommodated his early revelation to the intelligence of a primitive people (though Egypt and Babylon were then highly civilised), the Biblical story is utterly indefensible. It is not an accommodation of the truth to childlike minds. A modern teacher of science can easily convey the truth about the origin of the world and man to very young children. The truth is that the Biblical story is a crude and mildly speculative and childish guess, based upon the speculations of the Babylonian priests; and it has no relation whatever to the teaching of modern science and history. We have seen what the Biblical version is; now let us contrast the truth as it is revealed in modern science.

THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE

SOME thousands of millions of years ago two very large and probably dark bodies came within each other's sphere of attraction. They were drawn together by an invisible and immaterial agency, and commenced to approach each other slowly at first, the velocity increasing for perhaps a thousand years. The energy developed by the pull of these two bodies was converted into momentum or vis-inertia—that is, the dynamic energy in a moving mass, energy being in proportion to the square of the velocity. It is the energy stored in these two enormously large bodies when they were approaching each other that generated all the heat in our sun, and not only the movement of the earth and all the other planets, but also all forms of energy, such as heat, light, and electricity-in fact, everything that moves in this solar system does so at the expense of the original energy generated. This energy was the power employed to produce all the phenomena that we witness on this planet.

By the time that these two bodies had approached within a hundred miles of each other they would have a velocity of from thirty to forty miles per second in relation to space, though in relation to each other they would approach with a velocity of about seventyfive miles per second.1

Let us now consider what this means. The highpower military rifle gives to a light projectile a

Some writers place the velocity at fully double, which would mean four times the energy.