122 SPECIAL CREATION 



For Spencer's view of ''physiological units" and 

 "structural proclivity' see Principles of Biology 1, 

 pp. 226, 361, 362, 365, 368, 372, and vol. 2, pp. 612-618. 



The effect of the above quotations is that the atoms 

 and cells of which the embryo body is composed, do 

 spontaneously and automatically assemble a -id group 

 themselves into the chemical combinations and me 

 chanical arrangements, which are necessary to build 

 up the human body, without the aid of any extraneous 

 psychic or creative force whatever. This is necessarily 

 the theory of the evolutionist and materialist ; for they 

 deny that there was ever any such thing as special 

 creation. Besides, every one knows that neither the 

 father nor the mother has any power, nor any control 

 over the development and growth of the embryo. 



It follows that the blind, unthinking, fertilized 

 ovum and daughter-cells arising from it, spontaneous- 

 ly and automatically assemble themselves together in 

 the form of the two hundred and seventy-eight bones 

 ot the embryo skeleton; or that the Creator generates, 

 guides, and controls the forces and motions! \\hich 

 build up the embryo body. Which theory is most 

 plausible? 



We cannot even imagine the dead atoms of carbon, 

 chlorine, hydrogen, lime, etc., which compose the bones, 

 assemble and group themselves into the twenty-two 

 bones of the skull ; nor into the thirty-three joints of 

 the spinal column ; nor into the bones of the arms, 

 hands, legs and feet with all their pores, foraminae, 

 cavities, processes, joints and sutures. 



But the evolutionist says that "heredity' pro- 

 duces the embryo; and another says "nature' does 



