PREFACE. 



infallible Word of Truth, as the language of 

 Moses in the first chapter of Genesis plainly 

 contradicts the assertion of man having 

 been developed from the lower animals ; 

 and declares that man came into existence 

 by the sole act of creative power on the 

 part of an Omnipotent Being, who deter- 

 mined to form man of the dust of the ground 

 in His own image, after His own likeness. 

 " So God created man; male and female 

 created He them." 



3rd. That it is a grievous mistake to 

 suppose, what is often asserted with sur- 

 prising confidence, that all the learned 

 men, as Sir Joseph Hooker thought, had 

 accepted the doctrine of " EVOLUTION." I 

 have shown, on the contrary, by quoting the 

 ipssissima verba, that almost all the scien- 

 tific celebrities of the 19th century have 

 rejected the Evolutionary theory, either 

 positively or inf erentially. Even Professor 

 Tyndall, who has spoken in deservedly 

 high terms of Mr. Darwin, considers it 

 " certain" that his (Darwin's) theory of 

 Evolution will undergo " modifications." 



