And then there is another, and very interesting point, to notice. It is that according to Genesis, these steps were not all of equal importance. For while it describes most of them by the word _made_, which, as just said, seems to mean here _evolved_; on three occasions, and only three, it uses the word _create_. These refer to the origin of the _universe_, of _animal life_ (fishes and birds), and of _man_. And this is very significant, when we remember that these correspond to the beginning of _matter_, _mind_, and _spirit_; and are therefore (as said in Chapter IV.) just the three places where something altogether _new_ was introduced; which could not, as far as we can see, have been evolved from anything else. And this double method of producing, partly by _creating_, and partly by _making_ or evolving, is again referred to at the close of the narrative, where we read that God rested from all His work, which He had _created and made_. So much for the general _principles_ of the narrative, we pass on now to its detailed _order_. (_B._) ITS DETAILED ORDER. It will be remembered that in Genesis, after describing the earliest state of the earth, there are eight stages in its development; two of which occurred on the third, and two on the sixth, day. We have thus altogether nine subjects to examine. (1.) _The earliest state of the earth._ Now according to Genesis, the earth was at first _waste and void_ and in _darkness_, and apparently surrounded by _the waters_. And if we adopt the usual nebula theory, and refer this to the first period after it became a separate planet, and had cooled so as not to give out any light itself, these statements seem quite correct. For we know from geology that the earth was then waste and void as far as any form of life was concerned, while it was probably surrounded by a dense mass of clouds and vapours sufficient to produce darkness. Genesis then starts from the right starting-point, but again we must ask, how did the writer know this? (2.) _Light._