SPECIAL CREATION 



parent nor even a human being, it being too small, 

 even to suggest a human body, at all. An infant at 

 birth, is too rudimentary to resemble either parent 

 more closely than it does any other person of the same 

 sex. 



Whether the germ-cell and its daughter-cells are 

 to develop and grow to be a man, resembling its 

 father; or a woman resembling its mother, the same 

 forces and motions are required to assemble and group 

 the necessary atoms and cells into the proper chemical 

 combinations and mechanical arrangements in order 

 to construct its body. The fact that the child may 

 resemble its father or its mother or both of them, dees 

 not dispense with the assembling of the atoms and 

 cells ; nor with the grouping of them into the necessary 

 combination and arrangements. It is clear that the 

 same or similar forces and motions are necessary to 

 construct any animal body, whatever its form, size 

 or sex may be. 



According to the evolutionist and materialist, the 

 fact that the child resembles its parents is adequate 

 to account for, and explain all the phenomena of re- 

 production. But the existence of this resemblance, 

 and, the cause of it, are two wholly different things. 

 The fact that the child resembles its parents only 

 deepens the mystery ; for it would require less knowl- 

 edge, skill and creative force to construct a body with 

 the qualities and characteristics of mankind in gen- 

 eral, than it would to group the atoms and cells of the 

 body in such a manner as to produce a body in the 

 image of a particular man or woman. Thus a por- 

 trait painter could make a fancy sketch of an imag- 



