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all the evolutionists in the world could not make intelligible to any man of common sense. The notion of the origin of the world's life from some atoms of lifeless, inorganic matter is utterly unthinkable, self-contradictory, and absurd.

THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE.

Spontaneous generation then having been demonstrated to be false, impossible, and absurd, we fall back on the only alternative-creation. This is a supernatural act, and therefore inexplicable by science, which confines its investigations to nature; though at the last, as we have seen, it is compelled to admit a power beyond nature. But the idea of the creation of life by the Living God, though it transcends our reason, does not contradict it; seeing that it provides a sufficient cause for the proposed effect, and the only sufficient power and wisdom conceivable by man.

The Bible thus describes the creation of life by God, in the first chapter of Genesis: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth. And it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and the herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day.

"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life; and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the

seas; and let fowl multiply in the earth. ing and the morning were the fifth day.

And the even

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. And God saw that it was good." Such is the sublime and simple account of the origin of all life on our earth, from the word of the Eternal Lord and Giver of Life. To Him let every thing that hath life

give praise.

Amen.

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.

THE ERRORS OF EVOLUTION.

DARWINISM.

THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.

In examining the Errors of Evolution we have considered the notion of the self-origination of plants and animals by the spontaneous motions of the molecules of the matter composing them. We have seen that such a mode of the origin of life is impossible; and that the theory is self-contradictory and absurd. In the present writing we proceed to examine the theory of the development or evolution of all the various orders and species of plants and animals, from a few primeval germs.

This idea is a very ancient superstition. It was banished from Christendom by the Bible account of the creation of distinct species directly by God. The way for the return of this old heathenism was prepared by the belief in the possibility of the transmutation of species in transubstantiation. It was re-introduced in Europe by De Maillet, Oken, Lamarck, and the author of The Vestiges of Creation. But it owes its present popularity to the late Mr. Charles Darwin, whose theory has supplanted those of all his predecessors. We shall, therefore, confine our attention to it, for if it be shown to be erroneous, none of its less probable and possible competitors can stand.

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