82 SPECIAL CREATION 



bcdy are constantly being broken down and removed; 

 either molecularly, (that is bit by bit), while the gen- 

 eral si /e and form of the cell or fibre remaps un- 

 altered ) rr in mass, as when the hairs and the culicje 

 are shed/ (Martin, Human Body, p. 670. ^ 



Fee Encyc. Brit. 17, pp. 686-687; Martin, Unman 

 Body, pp 451-476, 670-671 ; New International Eneye. 

 9, pp. 312-315. 



The wF.s'e of cells affects the growth of tli<- body, 

 only so far as it tends to neutralize and offset the 

 increrse o/ the body by the multiplication u? cells. 



Sec. 29. Embryo Body is Built up of Inan- 

 imate Atoms Except the Germ-Cell 



The germ-cell (fertilized ovum) is the physical 

 basis cf every human body. Such an ovum is said 

 to be potentially alive because it may, with the aid of 

 the Create r, develop into a living individual. Except- 

 ing this tiny bit cf flesh-like substance, which is barely 

 vi ible to the naked eye, and which is not one trillionth 

 part of the infant at birth, every part of the human 

 embryo is built up cf inanimate atoms, which are car- 

 ried and distributed to the growing embryo by the 

 blood cf the mother. These dead atoms are then as- 

 similated by the enbryo and incorporated into its 

 growing body. 



The fertilized ovum is soon split and divided into 

 millions of pieces, by the division of cells, and lost in 

 the general mass of the embryo body like a drop in 



