CHAPTER I.

CREATION, p. 9. Naturally the first fact revealed; Its moral lessons, 9; The origin of this record and the manner of its revelation to men, 12; Nature and the supernatural, 13; Theories on the origin of life, 14; The sense of the word “day” in Gen. 1: 16; Argued (1) From the laws of language, 17; (2) From the narrative itself, 18; Objection from the law of the Sabbath, 21; (3) From Geological facts and their bearings on the question, 22; Prominent points of harmony between Genesis and Geology, 25; (4) Does “Create” (Gen. 1: 1) refer to the original production of matter? 26; (5) The relation of v. 1 to v. 2, and to the rest of the chapter, 29; (6) The work of the fourth day, 31; (7) The sense of the record as to the _origin of life_, vegetable and animal, 32; (8) On God’s “making man in his own image,” 33; (9) The relation of Gen. 2: 4–25 to Gen. 1, 35; (10) Invariability of “_kind_” in the vegetable and animal kingdoms, 37; The theory of Mr. Darwin, 38; The issue between Darwin and Moses, 38; Darwin’s five main arguments, 39; Brief replies, 40; Objections bearing generally against Darwin’s scheme, 43; (1) It requires almost infinite time back of the earliest traces or possibilities of life, 43; (2) Requires what Nature does not give――a close succession of animal races, differing but infinitesimally from each other, 43; (3) His argument is essentially _materialistic_ and is therefore false, 45; (4) It ignores man’s intellectual and moral nature, 46; (5) It ignores or overrides the law of nature by which hybrids are infertile, 46; (6) This scheme is in many points revolting to the common sense of mankind, 46; (7) It is ♦reckless of the authority of revelation, 48.