62 SPECIAL CREATION 



intellect or memory. But even if any of the three 

 has either of these faculties, it would be preposterous 

 to suppose that the spermatozoon, ovum or fertilized 

 ovum, remembers anything that happened before the 

 atoms, of which it is composed, were grouped together 

 as such. In other words, we cannot even imagine that 

 any living being remembers anything that happened 

 before it came into existence as such being. It is 

 too clear for argument that no parent ever transmits 

 to his or her child the memory of any thing that he 

 or she ever saw, heard, felt or knew. Every man 

 knows that he has no memory of anything that hap- 

 pened to either of his parents. It follows that the 

 memory of each animal is limited to the period of his 

 own existence, as such ; and that there is no such thing 

 as "unconscious memory/' or "organic memory," in 

 the sense in which these terms are used by the evo- 

 lutionist. 



But "unconscious memory," "organic memory,' 

 etc., if there were any such thing, have no constructive 

 force. I might have a vivid memory of every spring, 

 wheel, and part of a watch and yet have no power 

 to make one. So, an anatomist may know and re- 

 member every bone, muscle, artery, vein, nerve and 

 part of the human body; but this knowledge and 

 memory would not enable him to form the chemical 

 combinations and make the mechanical arrangements 

 necessary to construct the human body and impart life 

 to it. 



Nor has the germ-cell any will-power to begin 

 and continue the work of building up the embryo body 

 until it is completed. We cannot even imagine that 



