CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



human infant a real tail, complete, with all the muscles for 

 wagging it, is formed ; but after two or three weeks it begins 

 to dwindle, and it finally disappears. Some of its muscles 

 also atrophy; others are put to new purposes. No longer 

 having any use as tail-movers, once the tail had vanished, 

 they became converted into muscles that help to support and 

 control certain organs of the body. Similar transformations 

 can be found in every part of the human body; an organ or 

 tissue that was originally developed for one purpose becomes 

 modified to serve a totally different purpose. These state- 

 ments about the tail are not theories or hypotheses, they are 

 simple statements of fact, which any one can confirm by 

 looking at a human embryo that has reached the third month 

 of its development or at photographs of the embryo at that 

 stage, which can be studied in any text-book of anatomy or 

 embryology. The human embryo is at this stage so nearly 

 identical with that of the monkey, dog, and pig at corre- 

 sponding stages that only those who have expert knowledge 

 can distinguish one from another. In fact, in many medical 

 schools students examine the embryos of pigs to acquire a 

 practical knowledge of the development of man. 



2. In some animals that live in trees there is a peculiar 

 muscle in the fore limb, or arm, which plays a part in the 

 acrobratic feat of swinging from branch to branch. In the 

 human arm this muscle is commonly missing, but it is some- 

 times found as a small and apparently useless vestige, a 

 band of fibrous tissue representing a muscle that was a part 

 of the bodies of our arboreal ancestors. 



Neither of these illustrations is unique. The structure of 

 any and every part of the human body tells the same sort 

 of story of its history and affords the most unquestionable 

 proof of the reality of man's ancient lineage and of the 

 immense antiquity of his pedigree. The student who is 



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