P OT 
t- Po hey ae 
40 UNEXPLAINED ORIGINS. 
we not believe that by divine omnipotence the various spe- 
cies of plants and animals were brought forth as related 
in the first chapter of the Bible? “If the Creator could 
breathe life into a few forms or into one, as Darwin 
thinks he did, without violating the law of his own being, 
and in accordance with the laws which he has established, 
it seems evident that he might at other times breathe life 
into other forms in accordance with his laws. I see no 
necessity for a logic that would compel the Creator to 
confine the number of his creative fiats to a few, or to one, 
nor which would limit the fiats to one time.” (Fairhurst, 
“Organic Evolution Considered.” ) 
Biolo gical Barriers. 
The atom, the molecule, the life-germ,—these are 
the barriers which stand against the evolutionistic con- 
ception of origins on the physical side. We proceed to 
investigate the points at which biology touches our prob- 
lem, and again three barriers call for notice and investi- 
gation: The difference between plants and animals; the 
difference between vertebrates and invertebrates ; and the 
difference between mammals and all other vertebrates. 
1. Whence the animal kingdom? This stage in the 
scale of life, the advance from vegetable to the animal 
kingdom, is, to quote Mr. Wallace, again “completely 
beyond all possibility of explanation by matter, its laws 
and forces. It is the introduction of sensation or con- 
sciousness, constituting the fundamental distinction be- * 
tween the animal and vegetable kingdoms.” Plants live, 
animals live and feel; and they have consciousness. At 
this point again, only a thorough-going materialist will 
deny the working of an outside power, a power not 
resident in matter, but altering and molding matter from 
without and endowing it with new abilities. Only an 
