8 SPECIAL CREATION 



Many of the theories of the evolutionists are quite 

 absurd. Among these may be mentioned the theory 

 of "protective mimicry" and "sexual selection.' So 

 their belief that the blind" factors, ' ' working by chance 

 and accident, have differentiated one part of a minute 

 individual into a set of male sexual organs, and an- 

 other part of the same individual into a set of female 

 sexual organs, as in hermaphroditic animals and 

 plants, appears to be quite preposterous. So it is im- 

 possible to believe these "factors" have differentiated 

 one-half of the individuals of each species of mam- 

 mal into males and the other half into females, for 

 example into men and women. If time and space per- 

 mitted me, I could easily point out divers other ab- 

 surdities in the views of the evolutionists. 



To be consistent, every evolutionist must maintain 

 that characters, acquired by the parent, are trans- 

 mitted by heredity to their offspring; for the whole 

 theory of evolution is based on the hypothesis of ac- 

 cumulated "adaptations and variations.' Thus, sup- 

 pose a pair of snakes have ten vertebrae (joints) in 

 their spinal columns; that each of them acquires one, 

 making eleven ; that their offspring start with eleven 

 and acquire one, and so on until the ninetieth gen- 

 eration, which would have a hundred vertebrae. Such 

 a thing might happen, according to the evolutionist; 

 but I do not believe any such thing ever did happen. 



But no evolutionist has ever shown how or why 

 the offspring happen to resemble one or both of their 

 parents. In brief, the mechanism of heredity is wholly 

 unknown. The evolutionist tells us that "heredity 

 and adaptation' have evolved all the species of ani- 



