Can we believe that the heat of the mother’s body is, alone, adequate to generate life in the fertilized ovum? Can we believe that the heat of the sun, and the moisture of the earth are, of themselves, sufficient to generate life in a grain of wheat, a grain of corn or an acorn? It follows that the fertilized human ovum must be directly and specially endowed by the Creator with the power to absorb and assimilate food, to develop, grow and live! The Creator in every instance strikes the vital match! Sec. 49. Proposition 16. Every Human Soul is a New, Direct and Special Creation The soul is defined as: “A substantial entity, believed to be that, in each person, which lives, feels, thinks and wills.” (Cent. Dic. 7, p. 5781.) I hope and believe that every human being has an immortal soul; and if this be true it must be his or her own, for we cannot imagine that the same soul ever occupied more than one body; unless we believe in the transmigration, metempsychosis or reincarnation of souls; and this belief is too absurd for serious consideration. The child does not take his father’s soul nor his mother’s, nor is there any reason to suppose that either parent transmits to the child, any part of his or her soul; nor that either of them transmits any germ of a new soul for it. No man can even imagine a division of himself--his ego or self--into two or more parts. It follows that each human body has its own soul; which is separate from and independent of every other soul. We cannot believe that the spermatozoön nor the ovum has any soul prior to their fusion into the fertilized ovum. We are therefore compelled to infer that the soul comes into existence at the moment this fusion occurs, or shortly afterward. We cannot even imagine that the soul is created by the father, nor by the mother, nor by the body in which it resides; nor by accident nor chance. It follows that a new soul must be directly and specially created for each embryo body, if it ever gets one. It may be that life is an attribute or property of the soul. If this be true, the creation of the soul would include the creation of life. If one believes that he has a soul, separate and apart from his body, as most of us do, he is compelled to assume, that it was directly and specially created by Almighty God. If we believe that the soul is a special creation, we may well assume that the body is also a special creation. Sec. 50. Objection to this Theory of Special Creation I admit that there are serious objections to my theory of special creation. But like objections may be brought against any other theory. For example, many serious objections have been brought against Darwin’s theory of organic evolution. Yet a majority of all the scientists believe it is true. In his “Man’s Place in Nature” (p. 149), Huxley says: