_CREATION AND ITS RECORDS_. [Greek: Pistei nooumen kataertisthai tous aionas rhêmati theou eis to mi ek fainomenon to Blepomenon gegonenai.]--HEB. xi. 3. CREATION AND ITS RECORDS. A brief statement of Christian Belief with reference to Modern facts and Ancient Scripture. BY B.H. BADEN-POWELL, C.I.E., F.R.S.E. CONTENTS * * * * * _PART I._ CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER II. THE ELEMENT OF _FAITH_ IN CREATION CHAPTER III. THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION STATED CHAPTER IV. CREATIVE DESIGN IN INORGANIC MATTER CHAPTER V. THE CREATION OF LIVING MATTER CHAPTER VI. THE MARKS OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC FORMS CHAPTER VII. THE DESCENT OF MAN CHAPTER VIII. FURTHER DIFFICULTIES REGARDING THE HISTORY OF MAN CHAPTER IX. CONCLUDING REMARKS _PART II._ CHAPTER X. THE GENESIS NARRATIVE--ITS IMPORTANCE CHAPTER XI. SCRIPTURE METHODS OF REVELATION CHAPTER XII. METHODS OF INTERPRETING THE NARRATIVE--ASSUMPTIONS OF MEANING TO CERTAIN TERMS CHAPTER XIII. THE GENESIS NARRATIVE CONSIDERED GENERALLY (i.) THE FIRST PART OF THE NARRATIVE (ii.) THE SECOND PART CHAPTER XIV. THE INTERPRETATION SUPPORTED BY OTHER SCRIPTURES CHAPTER XV. AND SUPPORTED BY THE CONTEXT CHAPTER XVI. THE DETAILS OF THE CREATION NARRATIVE _APPENDIX._ PROFESSOR DELITZSCH ON THE GARDEN OF EDEN CHAPTER I. _INTRODUCTORY_ Among the recollections that are lifelong, I have one as vivid as ever after more than twenty-five years have elapsed; it is of an evening lecture--the first of a series--given at South Kensington to working men. The lecturer was Professor Huxley; his subject, the Common Lobster. All the apparatus used was a good-sized specimen of the creature itself, a penknife, and a black-board and chalk. With such materials the professor gave us not only an exposition, matchless in its lucidity, of the structure of the crustacea, but such an insight into the purposes and methods of biological study as few could in those days have anticipated. For there were as yet no Science Primers, no International Series; and the "new biology" came upon us like the revelation of another world. I think that lecture gave me, what I might otherwise never have got (and what some people never get), a profound conviction of the reality and meaning of facts in nature. That impression I have brought to the attempt which this little book embodies. The facts of nature are God's revelation, of the same weight, though not the same in kind, as His written Word.