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21. And God created great 
whales, and every moving creature 
which the waters brought forth 
abundantly, and every winged 
fowl after its kind. 
And God saw it was good, 
25. And God made the cattle, 
beasts, and everything that creep- 
eth on the earth. 
And God saw that it was good. 
27, And God made man (Adam 
in the Hebrew) in his own image, 
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the poles to the equator, and it 
teaches of like environments in 
high and low latitudes, of which 
one of the most important is light, 
Such conditions require an axis, 
nearly perpendicular. (The reader 
will please not to consider this 
even an attempt to discuss this 
period. Nothing can be done with- 
in the necessary limits of this 
paper.) 
After the glacial epoch and, d 
fortiori, after the Pliocene, present 
water vertebrates appeared for 
the first time, and present fowl. 
No further advance has been 
made in the genera, and scarcely 
any in the species. 
In most recent times and after 
the last-named animals, the living 
mammals of to-day appeared. 
This was final. No new mam- 
mals have been added. It ended 
the long preparation for man, 
Perhaps there were other races 
earlier, but the race of Adam, the 
progenitor of the people about 
whom the Bible is mainly written, 
came into being at this end of the 
creation work. 
It has been said that no philosophical divisions of the 
‘“creation ” into six periods can be made. The following, which 
is merely the Mosaic division, seems to meet the requirements. 
1, The nebulous or embryonic stage, ending in an opaque 
earth, with days and nights. 
2. The pluvial stage, ending in a world covered with water. 
3. The preparatory stage, reaching from somewhere in the 
Archean to the latter part of the Tertiary, including continental 
development and the finishing of vegetation. 
4, The fourth stage, in which the sun and moon become time 
measures, unequal days and nights and seasons were introduced. 
5. The fifth stage is the final stage in the development of 
water creatures and birds. 
6. The sixth stage includes the production of living mam- 
mals. 
The most remarkable things about the account are its free- 
dom from monstrosities, the agreement of its order with that 
of the world’s history, and the manner in which it meets the 
requirements of what a revelation should be, as they are set 
forth by Dr. Draper. 
