XXX PREFACE. 



philosophic statement of Scripture, which 

 reveals one Supreme Omnipotent Being as 

 the Creator of all ? 



3. Is the Origin of Life to be credited 

 to this Supreme Omnipotent Creator, or to 

 a fortuitous concourse of atoms, as some of 

 the Agnostic philosophers of the 19th 

 century contend ? 



4. Is the antiquity of man to be dated circa 

 6,000 years ago, as Scripture teaches ? and 

 which satisfied the enlarged mind of 

 Cuvier, the most profound scientist, ac- 

 cording to the testimony of Owen, since the 

 time of Aristotle ? or must we accept the 

 wild speculations of such men as Professor 

 Waitz, who gives men an antiquity of 

 135,000 million years, or of Professor 

 Huxley, who considers that is not near 

 long enough ? ! ! ! 



5. Is Teleology, or the arguments from 

 design, to be accepted as seen, e.g., in the 

 formation of the Carboniferous era for the 

 exclusive use of man, or in the mathe- 

 matical instincts of the bee, or the ex- 

 quisite formation of the human eye? 



