134 SPECIAL CREATION 



and wherever it may have lived? Such a thing is im- 

 possible; specially when we consider that each body 

 grew anew, for itself. 



But the evolutionist may say that this universal 

 sameness in all human bodies is caused by ' ' heredity. ' 



I reply that each human body begins life as a 

 fertilized ovum; that it develops and grows anew for 

 itself, independently of the development and growth 

 of any other body; it is a new combination of the 

 atoms and cells "organic bricks' -of which it is 

 composed; it was made by new forces and motions 

 of new materials, peculiar to itself. In order to build 

 each body the atoms and cells, of which it was com- 

 posed, must have been selected, assembled at the build- 

 ing site and there grouped into the necessary chemical 

 combinations and mechanical arrangement. Intellect, 

 memory, will-power, force and motion were necessary 

 to do this work, in each instance. 



Heredity is only a name for certain vital phe- 

 nomena. It it not a material entity ; it has no weight, 

 length, breadth nor thickness; no constructive force: 

 no intellect, memory nor will-power ; nor any power to 

 generate force nor motion. Nor has it any power to 

 assemble the atoms and cells; nor to group and ar- 

 range them in such a manner as to form the body, its 

 organs and parts. Nor can "heredity' "breathe the 

 breath of life" into the fertilized ovum nor create a 

 soul for the embryo body. 



"Heredity' does all its work by and through 

 the fertilized ovum. It has identically the same prop- 

 erties and potentialities that this ovum has, no more 

 nor less. Surely this ovum has no knowledge of the 



