26 SPECIAL CREATION 



sition in a building, but by different forces and other 

 means. 



But there is a marked difference between the 

 process of building a house, engine, or other inanimate 

 structure, on the one hand, and the body of the human 

 embryo on the other. The wood, clay, iron and 

 other materials used in the construction of the form- 

 er are found ready to hand ; and they are cut, sawed, 

 burned, molded, or hammered, by man, into the prop- 

 er size, form and condition for use in the construction 

 of the building or machine ; and are carried, by him, 

 to the place, at which the building or machine is to 

 be constructed. He then places these materials in 

 such positions as to build up and complete the build- 

 ing or machine. 



On the other hand the materials of which the 

 body of the human embryo is built, are carried by 

 the blood of the mother to their proper places in 

 the body; and different portions of the same raw ma- 

 terial, namely: the mother's blood, are then differ- 

 entiated and specialized into bones, muscles, nerves, 

 arteries, veins, and other tissues, which go to make up 

 the human body. 



These bones, muscles, nerves, etc., are all new 

 creations, independent of those of the mother, father 

 or any other human being that ever lived. Except 

 the tiny germ-cell, which is less than one-trillionth 

 part of the infant, at birth, they are built of atoms 

 that never formed any part of any other human body. 



The human body is not only a compound physical 

 structure, consisting of hundreds of bones, hundreds 

 of muscles, arteries, veins, etc., and of trillions of 



