Smithson's Theory of Special CreationSmithson, Noble
Religion
Smithson's Theory of Special Creation
Smithson, Noble
Creation
Thus, if the reader were required to group ten silver dollars into a
triangle with three dollars in each side and one in the center, he must
have intellect to understand the nature and properties of a triangle;
and to know how to construct it; and to know when it is completed; must
have memory to bear these things in mind while doing the work; must
have will-power to begin and continue the work until it is completed;
must generate such force and produce such motions as are necessary to
assemble and group the coins into the prescribed figure.
Can the reader discover any flaw in this proposition?
There is no trace of the coming embryo in the germ-cell (fertilized
ovum); nor of any organ or part of it. It follows that each embryo and
every organ and part of it must be made, anew, of fresh materials; that
the atoms and cells of which it is composed must be selected, assembled
and grouped into the chemical combinations and mechanical arrangements
which are necessary to construct the embryo body and each organ and
part of it; each organ and part of it being a new combination of its
component atoms and cells.
Intellect, memory, will-power, force and motion--supernatural, psychic
and creative force--are necessary to make each embryo body and every
organ and part of it. Let us suppose that a hundred million silver
dollars were coined last year, at the mint in Philadelphia. It is clear
that each of these coins was made, anew; that it was a new combination
of the atoms of silver and copper contained in it; that it required the
same work to make each of them, that it did to make every other--the
same to make the last that it did to make the first. The same is true
of each man and woman.
The purpose of this little work is to present some of the facts, and
make some of the arguments, which tend to prove that each human being
is a new, direct and special creation by Almighty God!
NOBLE SMITHSON.
Knoxville, Tennessee.
Nov. 1, 1911.
Sec. 1. Personal God
I believe there is a personal God, the Creator and Ruler of the
Universe. If this is not true, matter, force and the motion of matter
constitute the Universe. There is no middle ground between these two
propositions.
The first animal that ever lived on our earth was directly and
specially made by the Creator; or it arose by spontaneous generation
from inorganic matter. How else could it come into existence? The
same is true of the first plant. Which of these two theories is most
reasonable?
Every human being that ever lived was either directly and specially
made by the Creator; or the blind unthinking atoms and cells of which
his body was, and is, composed, spontaneously and automatically grouped
themselves into the chemical combinations and mechanical arrangements
necessary to build up his body. How else could a human body be made?
Which hypothesis is most plausible?
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