Smithson's Theory of Special CreationSmithson, Noble
Religion
Smithson's Theory of Special Creation
Smithson, Noble
Creation
What is the inference to be drawn from these facts? The evolutionist
and the naturalist say that the facts imply that all men have descended
from a common ancestor, that each individual inherits, from his
parents, every organ and part of his body, that “like begets like.”
They maintain that the law of heredity has produced the uniformity
of size, form, features, organs and parts, which we discover among
all men, all over the world. No doubt this is the belief of more than
ninety-nine (99) per cent of mankind.
But this belief is manifestly erroneous for the following reasons:
(1) Whatever passes from the parents to the child is transmitted by
and through the fertilized ovum; (2) this ovum is short-lived; it has
no brain, eyes, ears, nose, touch nor taste; no intellect, memory nor
will-power; nor inherent power to produce the embryo body; nor to endow
such a body with life; nor to create a human soul; (3) each embryo
body grows, anew, for itself, without regard to the development and
growth of its parents or any other ancestor; and it is a new chemical
combination and a new mechanical arrangement of the atoms of which
it is composed; (4) each chemical combination of atoms in an embryo
body is made according to a prescribed chemical formula; and each
mechanical arrangement of atoms in such a body is made according to a
specific plan; in other words the chemical combinations and mechanical
arrangements of atoms, in each embryo body, are identically the same
as those in every other such body; (5) conscious intellect, memory,
will-power, force and motion are necessary to combine two or more atoms
chemically, according to a prescribed formula and to group two or more
atoms, mechanically, according to a specific plan; (6) Hence, we are
compelled to believe that every human body is a new, direct and special
creation by Almighty God.
Sec. 10. Human Body is Unique and Peculiar
Each normal human body resembles every other such body, in form, size,
and structure; in chemical elements, organs and parts. But it differs
from every other in these particulars: (1) The atoms of which it is
composed are exclusively its own; (2) it is a new combination of these
atoms; (3) it grew anew, for itself, separately and apart from, and
independent of, every other such body; (4) the forces and motions,
which produced it, were peculiar to it, in origin, time and space.
See Cent. Dic. Supplement, “A-L,” p. 582. “Heredity;” Encyc. Brit. (9
ed.) 24, p. 818, “Variation.”
Sec. 11. Force and Motion
Sir Isaac Newton’s first law of motion is written in these words:
“Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a
straight line, except in so far as it is compelled, by force, to change
that state.”--(Encyc. Brit. (9 ed.) 15, p. 676, “Mechanics.”)
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