Smithson's Theory of Special CreationSmithson, Noble
Religion
Smithson's Theory of Special Creation
Smithson, Noble
Creation
“Our acceptance of the Darwinian hypothesis must be provisional so
long as one link in the chain of evidence is wanting: and so long as
all animals and plants certainly produced by selective breeding from
a common stock are fertile, and their progeny are fertile with one
another, that link will be wanting.”
This link is still missing and probably will be forever.
Although there are serious objections to my theory, yet there is none
so serious as there are to the alternative theory that dead atoms
and blind, unthinking cells do spontaneously and automatically group
themselves into the chemical combinations and mechanical arrangements,
which are necessary to produce the human body; and that this body
becomes, spontaneously and automatically, a live human being with
intellect, memory and will.
Index
Figures refer to pages.
=Animals=, their sizes determined how, 66
first appeared at a certain time, 106
first were specially created or arose by spontaneous generation, 107
none produced by spontaneous generation, 109
=Atoms=, defined and discussed, 20
=Body.= See Human body; Embryo body.
=Brain=, is a special creation, 129
=Cell=, defined and discussed, 21
their distribution and grouping, 69
their differentiation or metamorphosis, 77
their waste, discussed, 80
See Germ-cell; Daughter-cell.
=Chemical elements=, Composing the body, 19
=Creator=, could have made a million animals or plants as easily as
one, 111
if He made the first animal and the first plant he made all others,
112
His supervision is necessary to produce the embryo body, 135
bestows life on each individual, 136
=Daughter-cells=, their production, etc., 65
=Differentiation of Cells= (metamorphosis), 77
=Distribution and grouping= of cells, 69
=Ear= is a special creation, 128
=Elephant= grows larger than a mouse, why?, 66
=Embryo body=, distribution and grouping of cells in, 69
differentiation (metamorphosis) of cells in, 77
is built of inanimate matter, 81
each is produced anew, 82
=Eye= is a special creation, 123
=Fertilized ovum=. See Germ-cell.
=Force and motion=, defined and discussed, 35
=Generation, spontaneous=. See spontaneous generation.
=Germ-cell= defined and discussed, 53
does not contain any skeleton or model of the coming embryo, 57
has no power to evolve the embryo automatically, 61
=God.= See Personal God, 11
=Grouping of cells=, in embryo body, 69
=Heredity=, has no power to generate a new human being, 85
has no power to evolve one from the germ-cell, 85
and environment are inadequate, etc., 18
=Human being=, each is a special creation, 105
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