CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



Bible suggest that sometimes the kidneys were regarded as 

 the organs of mind, or both the kidneys and the heart, as in 

 the New Testament (Revelation, II, 23), where the Son of 

 God says: "I am he that searcheth the reins and the heart." 

 Even the Psalmist who wrote the oft-quoted verses (Psalm 

 CXXXIX, 13-16), which have become the special hymn of 

 the anatomist and embryologist, begins with the suggestion 

 that the kidneys are the seat of the will: 



Thou hast possessed my reins: 



Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. 



I will praise thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: mar- 

 vellous are thy works, 



And that my soul knoweth right well. 



My substance was not hid from thee 



When I was made in secret 



And curiously wrought in the lowermost parts of the earth. 



Thine eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect, 



And in thy book all my members were written which in continuance 

 were fashioned 



When as yet there was none of them. 



But of all these works none is so marvellous, so fearfully 

 and wonderfully made as the brain, which confers upon man 

 the supreme distinction of his high powers of intelligence. 



The brain affords evidence in corroboration of man's 

 origin from an ancestor common to man and ape that is too 

 exact and impressive to admit of any doubt as to its signifi- 

 cance. By demonstrating that the structures concerned in 

 the highest expressions of human intelligence are already 

 present in the ape's brain, even if they are very diminutive, 

 the study of the brain adds strength to the conviction that 

 the mind as well as the brain has been evolved. The fact 

 that the Bible in various places assigns the chief seat of 

 understanding sometimes to the heart, at other times to the 

 kidneys, or both heart and kidneys, has not been allowed to 



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