The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-26

IMAM a lion OF TnlnOCefOuS WHiie
! each remains after its own kind. yell
hydrophobia (bacilli) than a horse re-
sembles a fish ''-Thompson.
All organisms are at first microsco-
pic. The elephants first home was
in his microscopic. parent-cell. and
the trillions of cells of his future body
must be constructed, every one OF
them, on the elephant-cell pattern and
on no other. That pattern-cell must
contain something that determines 1t
will grow into an elephant and not
into a frog.
The Mosaic Account.
Finally, these facts suggest a re-
examination OF the Mosaic account OF
creation. Life on our globe COM
menced in the waters and every liv-
ing creature In the seas brought forth
after its kind" (Gen. l: 2l-22). The
whole vegetable world yielded seed
OF the air and the entire animal crea-
ton were produced after its kind
(limino). Lmino has a currency Of
sixteen times in Genesis alone. All
living creatures on the earth. in air
or sea, from the amoeba UP to man
and from the torula up to the pa
triarch of the forest--all life. ami
NAL and vegetable. on our globe Is
developed after It's kind. {see Gen.
1-s: 1900 1imino means species.
form, kind. sort, pattern. (Heb. Lex.)
The corresponding Greek word Is
idea. 1.-The perfect archtype. model or
pattern OF which all created things
were the Imperfect antitypes or rep
resentatives" (See Liddell and SCOTS
Grk. Lex as to the meaning of idea.)
And when Jerome translated the
Pentatuche into the old Latin vulgate
he gave us genus SUM: after Its
Genus. kind, sort, pattern" (See
tho Mosaic account of creation.
Stamps the Pattern.
Here then, the Creator has stamped
the nattern Of all the genera, species,
orders and classes OF both vegetable
and animal life upon our globe, the
moiusca. the radiata, the articulta and
the vertebrate, the entire circle OF
life. Upon that microscopic, primitive
cell. in which the elephant had his
first home and according to which
pattern, all the trillions Of cells Of his
future body are made to conform. He
Is developed into an elephant and not
into a whale or frog virchow. the
great German pathologist, tells us
that 1.-The plan Of organization is i'm
mutable within the limits OF the spe-
cies" The father Of evolution tells
us: I'm what manner are mental fac
ulties first developed in the lowest
how life itself originated. These are
problems for the distant future II
they are yer to be solved by man.
Man is certainly descended from
hairy-tailed quadruped. Man Is GER
tainlyy rescended from some ape-like
creature. That man Is descended from
some lowly organized form, will re-
gret to think, be highly distasteful
to many. For my own part I would
as soon have been descended from
monkey or an old baboon. Man still
bears In his bodily form the indelible
stamp of this lowly origin" DARWIN
Descent OF Man, page ~, 67+, TOT.
70s."
Compare with these statements OF
Mr.. Darwin, mans lofty origin as
given in the Scriptures. and see
whether his life was the gift OF his
Creator. or was generated by abiogen-
esis God breathed into his nostrils
the breath Of lives and as the life-
giving oxygen OF the atmosphere en-
tered, his lungs expanded, the blood
corpuscles were oxygenized themoglo-
bin) and propelled TO the heart which
in turn. propelled them to every part
OF the body, awakening every nerve.
sensory and motor to sensation and
energy. In an instant the blood Of
the entire vascular system was In
circulation and had reached the
brain through the two internal caroted
and vertebral arteries and thence to
the pia mater. and thus, brought In
direct contact with the protoplasmic
cells OF the brain: life. thought. per-
ception. reason and feeling COM
menced and Adam had become a liv-
ing SOUL" a living being.
Thus the lungs worked for $50
years until the last breath cut of
the supply Of oxygen and this first
man expired. To deny the divine
origin OF life 10 to admit the claims
Of abiogenesis. The British Scientific
Association, the highest In the world.
condemned Abiogenesis in 1900 A. d.
through its president Sir William
Turner: 1.-THE doctrine OF abiogenesis
has not been experimentally proven:
the burden Of proof lies with those
who hold the doctrine. and the evil
dence we possess Is all the other way"
Again. Living matter In our epoch
has been and continues to be derived
from pre- existent living matter" 1t
Is said that the majority OF ministers
graduating in our theological semin-
aries are evolutionists. higher critics.
Jesus OF Nazareth entered and be-
came a member Of the human race
through His mother Mary.
Evolutionists teach that: Tho hui
man race descended from a ''hairy-
tailed ape" monkey or "baboon."
Jesus was q member OF the human
race, therefore Jesus descended from
hairy-tailed ape. monkey or
baboon.
speak with ali reverence here. and
In reference to the claims OF evolu-
tionists whose logic needs only to be
summed up In a sylogism to be ex-
posed as utterly untenable and alb
surd.
Our microscopic speck Of hemo-
globin IL yet pregnant with other
facts; anyone OF which Is a witness to
the Mosaic account Of mans lofty
origin.