TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: A list of corrections is at the end of the text. Italics are indicated by _underscores_, bold by =equal signs= and superscripts by '^'. _Illogical Geology_ _The Weakest Point in_ _The Evolution Theory_ [Illustration: Author] BY GEORGE McCREADY PRICE EDITOR OF "THE MODERN HERETIC," AND AUTHOR OF "OUTLINES OF MODERN SCIENCE AND MODERN CHRISTIANITY." THE MODERN HERETIC COMPANY 257 S. HILL STREET, LOS ANGELES, CAL. SINGLE COPIES 25^c 3 COPIES 60c: 10 COPIES $1.75 ILLOGICAL GEOLOGY THE WEAKEST POINT IN THE EVOLUTION THEORY To the Reader. This _Advance Edition_ has been issued by the Publishers in this cheap form to enable them to get out several thousand copies for critical review at comparatively small expense. Succeeding editions will be in regular book form, and will be sold at the usual rates for bound volumes. "It is a singular and a notable fact, that while most other branches of science have emancipated themselves from the trammels of metaphysical reasoning, the science of geology still remains imprisoned in '_a priori_' theories."--_Sir Henry Howorth: "The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood." Preface. VII._ _THE MODERN HERETIC COMPANY_ 257 S. HILL ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 1906 COPYRIGHT 1906 BY GEORGE McCREADY PRICE LOS ANGELES, CAL. PART I PREFACE This book is not written especially for geologists or other scientists as such, though it deals with the question which it discusses from a purely scientific standpoint, and presupposes a good general knowledge of the rocks and of current theories. It is addressed rather to that large class of readers to whom geology is only an incident in larger problems, and who are not quite wholly satisfied with those explanations of the universe which are now commonly accepted on the testimony of biological science. I am free to say that my own conviction of the higher value and surer truth of other data outside of the biological sciences have always been given formative power in my own private opinions, and that in this way I have long held that there =must be something wrong= with the Evolution Theory, and also that there must be a surer way of gauging the value of that Theory, even from the scientific standpoint, than the long devious processes connected with Darwinism and biology. Some years ago, when compelled to investigate the subject more fully than I had hitherto done, I discovered, somewhat to my own surprise, the phenomenal weakness of the geological argument. The results of that investigation have grown into the present work.