If all forms of life have developed from the amoeba, there ought to be a continuous upward flow, showing creatures in every stage of evolution getting ready to be what they are not. If there are forms a million years apart, why not a thousand or a hundred years apart? To avoid this fair inference, they say the intermediate forms are extinct. Who killed them and forbade others coming on? As a matter of fact, there is not one living creature between amoeba and man that they are sure is the form through which our evolution passed. They can only agree that our ancestors were some sort of marsupials, reptiles, amphibians, fish, etc. Unless evolution goes by jerks, there ought to be SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE AND SOMETHING A LITTLE LESS than every form we have and the stream ought to keep coming.

In order to bridge the mighty chasm between man and reptiles, they assume that our distant ancestors were something like a kangaroo or opossum. Why are there no creatures 10 per cent, 20 per cent and 30 per cent more than opossum and less than opossum? Where evidence is most needed, it is always missing. They are very free to tell you what animals and birds have been, but are quite too shy and modest to tell you what any animal will become.

If humming birds and eagles have evolved from reptiles, then there ought to be some forms 99 percent reptile and 1 percent bird, others 98-to-2 percent, 97-to-3 percent, on up to 1 per cent reptile and 99 per cent bird. Among all the reptiles, will some expert pick out any kind of reptile that will turn into any kind of bird? If anyone will undertake the job, I will gladly print his forecast in the next edition.

It is necessary to assume that evolution has gone forward in waves killing off all between the waves, ending some waves in total extinction, letting most of the waves degenerate, and now the waves have stopped coming and man is losing 180 conveniences he formerly had.

THEY ASSUME A GULF OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS AND BRIDGE IT WITH OBITUARIES.

Why must they assume so much?

I think I know.

It is for the same reason that when a beautiful heiress gets shipwrecked, she selects a tropical island where a wonderful young hero has been marooned by cruel plotters. It enables him to rescue her from sharks while the sailors all drown. It affords them a chance to kill savages and wild beasts and discover a gold mine and be rescued soon after her wicked uncle dies. How else could they marry at $1.50 per copy?