This planet
is in what might be styled its primary evolutionary stage where
life has just begun. This life has not evolved beyond the
unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it will be only after the
lapse of a long period of time, measured in Geological units,
when more complex organisms will appear: and many of these
periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have
attained a proper development for the propagation of
intelligences capable of being classed with the denizens of your
Earth.
Long before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere
will undergo a tremendous change. Mighty planetary cataclysms
will raise new mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and
the present land surfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered
with slime and water, to rise again in the centuries to come, for
the Father's love and solicitude will provide, as it has in the
case of all His Celestial Creations, a bountiful supply of
stored-up radiant energy, such as coal and petroleum, and other
elements, for the comfort of those who will inhabit this giant
among the worlds of this system in time to come.
Jupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this
planet a very high mean temperature.
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