CHAPTER XIV 



DOES LIKENESS PROVE DESCENT? 



THE first argument given for the descent 

 of man from the ape, or some other ver- 

 tebrate, is naturally drawn from mor- 

 phology. This calls attention to a certain obvi- 

 ous similarity in the structure of the skeleton, of 

 various organs and of the nervous system. That 

 many such resemblances exist between man and 

 the higher animals no one would wish to deny, 

 but the conclusions drawn from these facts are 

 very deceptive and illogical. Man, in his bodily 

 structure, was created as the most perfect of the 

 mammals, but from this, of course, it does not 

 follow that he must have descended from them 

 by a process of evolution. 



Accepting the fact of a Creator, nothing could 

 be more comformable to His plan of a harmonious 

 design for the great work of Creation, than that 

 there should be a similarity such as even the archi- 

 tect of a Gothic cathedral would necessarily aim 

 at to give unity to his design. The development, 

 as we may say, of one sublime creative idea, har- 

 monized perfectly in all its parts, beginning with 

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