Smithson’s Theory of Special Creation

Preface

Sec. 1. Personal God

Sec. 2. Whence and Whither

Sec. 3. Chemical Elements Composing the Human Body

Sec. 4. Atoms

Sec. 5. Cells and Cell Theory

Sec. 6. Protoplasm

Sec. 7. Human Body is a Compound Physical Structure Built of Cells

Sec. 8. Human Body is a Complex Animal Machine

Sec. 9. Human Body is Constructed on a Definite and Specific Plan

Sec. 10. Human Body is Unique and Peculiar

Sec. 11. Force and Motion

Sec. 12. Intellect, Memory and Will-power are Necessary, When

Sec. 13. Spermatozoön

Sec. 14. Ovum

Sec. 15. Spermatozoön and Ovum are Special Creations

Sec. 16. Germ-Cell, Stem-Cell or Fertilized Ovum

Sec. 17. Germ-Cell Does Not Contain Any Skeleton, Model nor Performed Outline of the Coming Embryo

Sec. 18. Germ-Cell Has No Inherent Power to Evolve, Spontaneously and Automatically, the Body and Organs of the Embryo

Sec. 19. Reproduction, its Phenomena

Sec. 20. Spermatozoön, its Production

Sec. 21. Ovum, its Production

Sec. 22. Germ-Cell, its Production

Sec. 23. Daughter-Cells, Their Production

Sec. 24. Animals, Their Sizes are Determined, How?

Sec. 25. Distribution and Grouping of Cells in the Embryo Body

Sec. 26. Distribution and Grouping of Cells in the Embryo Body, Continued

Sec. 27. Differentiation (Metamorphosis) of Simple-Cells Into Bone-Cells, Muscle-Cells, Nerve-Cells, Vascular-Cells, Gland-Cells, Etc.

Sec. 28. Waste of Cells

Sec. 29. Embryo Body is Built up of Inanimate Atoms Except the Germ-Cell

Sec. 30. Embryo Body; Each is Produced Anew

Sec. 31. Heredity has no Power to Generate a New Human Being; nor to Evolve One from the Germ-Cell

Sec. 32. Nature has no Power to Generate a New Human Being; nor to Evolve one from the Germ-Cell

Sec. 33. Every Human Being is a New, Direct and Special Creation by Almighty God; this Question to be Determined, How

Sec. 34. Proposition 1. Animals and Plants First Appeared on the Earth at a Certain Time

Sec. 35. Proposition 2. First Animal and Plant were Either Specially Created; or Arose by Spontaneous Generation from Inorganic Matter

Sec. 36. Proposition 3. No Spontaneous Generation of Animals; nor of Plants

Sec. 37. Proposition 4. Creator Could Have Made a Million Animals or Plants as Well as One

Sec. 38. Proposition 5. If the Creator Made the First Animal and the First Plant He Made All Others

Sec. 39. Proposition 6. Human Body is Either Specially Created or Spontaneously Generated, Which?

Sec. 40. Proposition 7. Human Skeleton is a Special Creation

Sec. 41. Proposition 8. Each Human Eye is a New, Direct and Special Creation

Sec. 42. Proposition 9. Each Human Ear is a New, Direct and Special Creation

Sec. 43. Proposition 10. Each Human Brain is a New, Direct and Special Creation

Sec. 44. Proposition 11. The Sexual Organs of Each Individual are New, Direct and Special Creations

Sec. 45. Proposition 12. Form, Size, Structure and Position of the Several Organs and Parts of the Body and Their Number are Conclusive Evidence that Each Human Body is a New, Direct and Special Creation

Sec. 46. Proposition 13. Universal Sameness of all Human Bodies, is Conclusive Evidence that Each of Them was Directly and Specially Made by the Creator

Sec. 47. Proposition 14. Creator’s Supervision of the Development and Growth of the Embryo is Necessary to Produce the Human Body

Sec. 48. Proposition 15. Each Human Body is Specially Endowed with Life

Sec. 49. Proposition 16. Every Human Soul is a New, Direct and Special Creation

Sec. 50. Objection to this Theory of Special Creation

Index