Organic Evolution 



it contains was created about 6,000 years ago ; that the work 

 of creation covered a period of six days; that Adam was the 

 first man and was created on the sixth day; that Eve was the 

 first woman and that she was formed of a rib taken from 

 Adam w^hile he slept; that both Adam and Eve were created 

 of full stature, capable of speaking and understanding a 

 language; that Adam lived nine hundred and thirty years 

 and that some of his posterity exceeded that age; that Adam 

 named all living creatures ; that the earth was created before 

 the sun and that the sun and moon were created on the same 

 day; that after a period of 1,656 years a great deluge 

 destroyed all the descendants of Adam except Noah and his 

 family and all animals except a pair of each that were pre- 

 served In the "ark" with Noah and his family; that all the 

 different races of men are descended from Noah. 



With the exception of the first statement In this Hebrew 

 account of creation: ''In the beginning God created the 

 heaven and the earth," which is a declaration of the super- 

 natural origin of all things, all the other propositions relate 

 to matters affecting the order of the natural world. Evolu- 

 tion does not take God out of the universe — far from this ! 

 It does not dispute the supernatural origin of all things. 

 Thelstic Evolution teaches that we must turn to the Divine 

 Creator to find the origin of life; that Evolution Is only a 

 method. It Is not an agent. It is only concerned with the 

 method of creation and makes no attempt to explain the 

 origin of life. It gives a description of the method of crea- 

 tion and stops with this. It matters not whether man was 

 made out of protoplasm or dust, the result is still the same. 



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