CHAPTER IX 



EVOLUTION AND GENESIS 



FULLY to satisfy the inquiring mind on the 

 subject of evolution a word must be said 

 on the "Six Days" of Creation as narrated 

 in the Scriptures. This is important because of 

 the materialistic literature that would here in par- 

 ticular leave the impression that science and the 

 Bible are irreconcilable, and that therefore man 

 need look for his origin to nothing further than 

 eternal, uncreated matter. On this assumption 

 rationalism and Socialism, anarchism and profit- 

 eering are alike founded in their philosophy. A 

 correct understanding of the "Six Days" of Cre- 

 ation comes therefore to have a most practical 

 relation to our every-day life and to the welfare 

 and prosperity of mankind. Such, too, we can 

 without hesitation say, was the purpose of the 

 inspired account, on which the greatest of all la- 

 bor legislations is based, that has done more to 

 humanize industrial life than any economic ordi- 

 nance : the Sunday law. 



The astounding parallel which can be estab- 

 lished between the Mosaic narrative and the most 

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