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34. The destruction of a whole genus, as in the case of the 
Ammonite, is also a difficulty in the progressive theory. It is 
an undoubted fact that there was a period when the Ammonite 
and the Nautilus co-existed. In the earliest formations the 
Ammonite is found side by side with the Nautilus, up to the 
chalk. Not a single specimen of that genus has ever been since 
found in deposits which overlie the chalk. How can this total 
extinction be accounted for in the Darwinian and Lamarckian 
philosophy ? It is in point of fact an unsolved problem, which 
no human mind can explain, or possibly in the present state 
understand. 
We believe that all creatures on earth at the present time 
have never varied in their general features, and that they are 
to-day what they have ever been since their original creation. 
The iirst giraffe had a neck as long as those now living, and 
the first wild duck had its feet webbed just as those of the 
present day. That they were otherwise formed remains to be 
proved. All things continue as they have been since the 
creation of the world, allowance being made for such external 
changes as take place from climate, food, domesticity, and 
such-like. 
The Principal Varieties of Mankind. 
35. Such varieties as those of the Negro — the North 
American Indian, and the Anglo-Saxon seem difficult of 
explanation under ordinary circumstances. But I do not 
see anything more perplexing than in the facts connected 
with the history of orchids. From the same seed-capsule 
great varieties of plants are produced. It is peculiarly de- 
serving of notice that on the very same plants, you will find 
two totally different sets of flowers. This is a serious difficulty 
on the Darwinian principle. 
36. The question of colour or pigment, as in the case of the 
black man or the red man, is one about which physiologists as 
yet know little or nothing. It is well understood that very 
remarkable changes are effected by food. For example, if a 
pig fed on madder for six or seven weeks be killed at the end 
of that time, it will be found that his bones have become pink. 
There are hundreds of questions involved in this variety of 
the human species with which we should be thoroughly ac- 
quainted before we presume to deny the Scriptural account of 
the origin of man. Nothing that I have yet read upon the 
