The same question was asked of Dr. Osborn, of Columbia University,
N. Y. The answer by R. C. Murphy, assistant, was equally
indefinite. He wrote: "From every point of view, your short note of
Aug. 22nd raises questions, which no scientific man can possibly
answer. We have very little knowledge as to just when any particular
species of animal arose." In a later letter, he says: "I have no idea
whether the number of species which have arisen during the last 6000
years is 1 or 100,000."

Should those who "do not know" speak so confidently in favor of
evolution, or take the "old and safe _ignoramus_" standpoint, as
Prof. Kellogg suggests?

The number of existing species can not be explained upon the ground of
evolution, but only upon the ground of the creation of numerous heads
of animal and plant life, as the Scriptures declare.

We have a right to increase the pressure of the argument, by
introducing into the calculation, the total of 3,000,000 species of
plants and animals which would require 6355 new species within the
last 6000 years, or an average of more than one new species a year!
And they can not point to one new species in 6000 years, as they
confess. Dr. J. B. Warren, of the University of California, said
recently: "If the theory of evolution be true, then, during many
thousands of years, covered in whole or in part by present human
knowledge, there would certainly be known at least a few instances of
the evolution of one species from another. _No such instance is
known._"