104 SPECIAL CREATION 



certain real or imaginary "forces or processes.' The 

 word dees not indicate by what agency these "forces 

 or processes' are generated, guided nor controlled. 

 But we use the word to indicate or describe certain 

 phenomena, which we do not understand, in the same 

 manner that we use the word "gravitation.' 



The naturalist or materialist would say that na- 

 ture generates the spermatozoon and ovum; that it 

 unites and fuses them into the germ-cell; and that it 

 develops this cell into a man or woman. One might 

 as well say, historically, that the spermatozoon and 

 ovum are generated and fused; and that a man or 

 woman is produced from it. But this statement does 

 not explain anything. It dees not tell us what force 

 selects, assembles and groups the atoms into the sperm- 

 atozoon and ovum ; nor what endows it with life ; nor 

 who nor what creates its soul; nor what force or 

 agency causes the embryo to develop and grow to man- 

 hood or womanhood. 



To say that "nature" generates and evolves new 

 men and women, is no explanation of the phenomena 

 of reproduction. Nature has no physical body, no 

 weight, length, breadth, nor thickness, no intellect, 

 memory nor will-power; nor can it voluntarily gener- 

 ate force nor motion. It follows that ' ' nature ' ' cannot 

 form the spermatozoon nor the ovum; cannot cause 

 them to unite and fuse into a germ-cell ; nor cause the 

 necessary atoms and cells to assemble and group them- 

 selves into the chemical combinations and mechanical 

 arrangements required to build up the embryo body, 

 its organs and parts. 



In other words, "nature' works by and through 



