Doctrinal Value of First Chapters of Genesis 83 universally proclaiming the truth of Gen. 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25 “after his kind,” “after their kind” ; that is, species by species. Geology with its five hundred or so species of ganoids pro- claims the fact of the non-transmutation of species. If, as they say, the strata tell the story of countless aeons, it is strange that during those countless aeons the trilobite never produced anything but a trilobite, nor has the ammonite ever produced anything but an ammonite. The elaborately artifi- cial exceptions of modern science only confirm the rule. (See Townsend, “Collapse of Evolution.”) 3. Nor is there any trace of transmutation of species. Man develops from a single cell, and the cell of a monkey is said to be indistinguishable from that of a man. But the fact that a man cell develops into a man and the monkey cell develops into a monkey, shows there is an immeasurable dif- ference between them. And the development from a cell into a man has nothing whatever to do with the evolution of one species into another. “To science, species are practically un- changeable units” ( “Origin of the World,” p. 227). Man is the sole species of his genus, and the sole representative of his species. The abandonment of any original type is said to be soon followed by the complete extinction of the family. 4. Nor has the missing link been found. The late Rob- ert Etheridge of the British Museum, head of the geological department, and one of the ablest of British paleontologists, has said: “In all that great museum there is not a particle of evidence of transmutation of species. Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is not founded on observation, and is wholly unsupported by facts.” And Professor Virchow is said to have declared with vehemence regarding evolution: “It’s all non- sense. You are as far as ever you were from establishing any connection between man and the ape.” A great gulf is fixed between the theory of evolution and the sublime statement of Gen. 1 :26, 27. These verses give man his true place in the universe as the consummation of creation. Made out of the
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