The Pentateuch, in Its Progressive Revelations of God to Men — John Shaqi
The Pentateuch, in Its Progressive Revelations of God to MenCowles, Henry
Religion
The Pentateuch, in Its Progressive Revelations of God to Men
Cowles, Henry
Bible. Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
3. As to homologous anatomical structure, _e. g._ of the arm, fore-leg,
wing, fin, paddle――there are abundant reasons for its existence aside
from the assumption of Darwin that it proves a common ancestry for
man, monkey, calf, bull-dog, eagle, toad and whale. The ball and socket
joint at man’s shoulder is the perfect thing for use. Equally so is
the same kind of joint for the fore-leg of a horse, the wing of an
eagle or the fin of a fish. God made the anatomy of man’s arm perfect.
What forbids that he should make an equally perfect machinery for the
motions and various uses of other animals? The reason of this uniformly
perfect machinery is found in the wisdom and benevolence of the Great
Maker, and proves nothing in favor of a common descent from some one
parent, _i. e._ it proves nothing _unless_ you may assume that God
could not have made two kinds of animals with homologous anatomical
structures――two kinds, each with machinery perfect for its purposes.
4. As to the similar appearance of the embryo in very dissimilar races,
there may be differences in the embryo which no microscope and no human
test have yet discovered. The force of this argument seems to me to
come rather from ignorance than from knowledge.
5. As to rudimentary organs, their history is very obscure and their
design also. I suggest that Mr. Darwin begin with the history and the
reason for the rudimentary organs which appear on the bosom of the
male in the species man. When he shall have mastered this problem――the
history and the reason――we can afford to consider his argument
therefrom in proof that man has a common ancestry with whatsoever
other animal he may find having this male organ, not rudimentary but
in full activity. Probably he will prove that man must have come down
by descent from that class of animals which economically combine the
two sexes in one and the same individual!
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_Some objections of a more general bearing upon Darwin’s scheme._
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