WHAT IS CREATION? 235 



Such are the inconsistencies and contradictions 

 which the greatest minds are capable of when they 

 seek to bolster up theories at the expense of facts, 

 to maintain evolution without an Evolver, a law 

 without a Lawgiver, a creation without a Creator. 

 But Darwin's evolution is not Huxley's, and, so far 

 as regards its ruling idea, is, we think, not in 

 opposition to the Mosaic narrative, may, indeed, 

 if we please, be taken as explanatory of it. 



It only remains to refer to some minor objections 

 which have been based on the supposed contra- 

 dictions in Genesis of the facts of geology and some 

 other sciences. These objections mainly bear upon 

 the Mosaic use of the word " day," the order in 

 which the various types of plants and animals were 

 introduced upon the earth, and the antiquity of the 

 human race. 



First let me make a brief reference to the bearing 

 of the facts of Geology on the Mosaic "days of 

 Creation." 



While men remained ignorant of the marvellous 

 records written upon the stone tablets of the earth, 

 it mattered but little what view was taken with 

 regard to the length of time occupied in Creation ; 

 but when it began to appear that myriads of 

 creatures in all stages of growth and development 

 had been preserved in the rocks, the majority of 

 which no longer exist, then it was suspected that 

 the yom of Genesis might mean something different 

 from twenty-four hours. It was felt that six days 

 of twenty-four hours each could not suffice for the 

 growth of many thousands of feet of limestone, 



