Evolution: The Quest of Truth 143 



"Following out an observation that in the 

 embryonic state man passes through the dif- 

 ferent stages of worm, fish, reptile, and quad- 

 ruped, the evolutionist has argued that the 

 human race has accordingly been evolved from 

 the worm, fish, reptile, and quadruped. This 

 certainly is a momentous induction from 

 limited data, indeed from almost no data at 

 all. 



" If we may speak with perfect plainness, an 

 inexcusable blunder is committed by the evo- 

 lutionists by reason of overlooking, or what is 

 worse, by reason of a misinterpretation and 

 false application of, the prophetic element in 

 nature. That is, the Creator is a prophet and 

 his method is to anticipate by type, pattern, 

 or prophecy what may be expected in his sub- 

 sequent creations. For illustration, the fins of 

 fishes, the wings and feet of birds, and the fore 

 and hind feet of brutes, created before man, are 

 prophetic of the arms and feet of man. So, 

 too, the lower forms of life, the worm, fish, 

 and reptile, furnish hints of what the higher and 

 later forms are to be." 



