FIRST ANIMAL AND PLANT, ETC. 107 



The rocks tell us that animals and plants first 

 appeared on the earth in the archaeozoic or primordial 

 geological age, which, according to Haeckel, began 

 100,800,000 years ago. (Last words on Evolution, 

 p. 165.) He also says that "life began to exist 

 at a definite period,' "on our planet;' that 

 "no organism can exist or discharge its functions 

 without water. No water, no life!' and that the 

 surface of the earth had to cool down so as to convert 

 "the envelope of steam into water' before animals 

 and plants could live. (Evolution of Man, p. 200.) 



Sec. 35. Proposition 2. First Animal and 

 Plant were Either Specially Created; 

 or Arose by Spontaneous Gen- 

 eration from Inorganic 

 Matter 



Mysterious and miraculous as it may seem, ani- 

 mals and plants have lived on the earth during this 

 eternity of time. The earth is now covered with 

 countless millions of them. We know that we, our- 

 selves, are here. How did they happen to be here? 

 How did we get here? How did life originate on the 

 earth ? 



It is obvious that the first animal or plant that 

 appeared on the earth was either directly and special- 

 ly made, by a supernatural psychic and creative force, 



