"And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years" (Gen. v, 5). The Bible says that for a period of two thousand years men lived for centuries, that at least seven patriarchs attained to an age of nearly 1,000 years. The Egyptian records of that period show that man's longevity was no greater then than it is now. Not only the size and age of men, but their numbers are exaggerated by Bible writers. The Israelites, at the time they settled in Palestine, numbered, it is claimed, two or three millions. Out of this country, to make room for them, God cast "seven nations greater and mightier than" the Israelite nation (Deut. vii, 1). Palestine must then have sustained a population as great as Spain does now with a territory thirty times as large. The census of Israel and Judah, taken in the time of David, places the number of warriors at 1,570,000 (1 Ch. xxi, 5). This makes the whole population twice as great as that of Illinois with an area nine times as large as Palestine and a soil ten times as fertile. "And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech" (Gen. xi, 1): "Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech" (Gen. xi, 7). The origin of the various languages of men is here attributed to a miraculous confusion of tongues. Science shows that languages had no such origin. Renan says: "Far from placing unity at the beginning of language, it is necessary to look at such a unity as the slow and tardy result of an advanced civilization. In the beginning there were as many dialects as families." This Bible account of the confusion of tongues is contradicted by the preceding chapter of Genesis (x, 5, 20, 31), which, referring to the children of Japheth, Ham, and Shem, says they were divided "every one after his tongue," "after their families, after their tongues." Physiology. "And the ark rested in the seventh month ... upon the mountains of Ararat" (Gen. viii, 4). "And in the second month [of the following year] was the earth dried" (viii, 14). Here on the top of Ararat, three miles above the surrounding country, and three thousand feet above the region of perpetual snow, for months, the respiratory organs of man and all the animals of earth performed their functions without difficulty! "Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?" (Matt. ix, 4). "What reason ye in your hearts?" (Luke v, 22). Jesus recognizes the heart as the seat of reason and intelligence. "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children" (Gen. iii, 16). "She was found with child of the Holy Ghost" (Matt. i, 18). "Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit" (Mark v, 8). "And the prayer of faith shall save the sick" (James v, 15). Attributing the pains of parturition to a curse, recording the generation of a child without a natural father, ascribing nervous and other disorders to demons, and healing the sick by prayer are Biblical, but not scientific.