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offer sacrifices and to observe the 7th day
as especially sacred. This can only be accounted for upon the assumption, that God had
revealed to the human race that creation occupied 6 days or periods, and the 7th was to be
observed,--all of which was doubtless handed down by tradition. There were priests and
temples in the most ancient empire known.
Dr. Dummelow says: "It is now widely admitted that the Genesis account of creation
contains elements of belief which existed perhaps thousands of years before the book of
Genesis was written, among the peoples of Babylonia and Assyria." Many of the
primeval revelations were handed down by tradition. God communed with Adam. There
are many relics of the original religion: the division of time into weeks, and the institution
of the Sabbath day; the sacrifices so common in the ancient religions; the general
existence of priests and temples in all ages, and among all nations; marriage, the divinely
authorized pillar of society; the early institution of the family, and the use of the root
words for father and mother, in all the most ancient languages, and families of languages,
as well as in the scattered languages of the earth spoken by the most savage. The belief in
the immortality of the soul, is well nigh universal, even among tribes, who, unlike Plato,
possess no power to reason it from the light of nature. In contrast, we behold the sorry
spectacle of the anthropoid evolutionists of our day trying to drive from the hearts of men
the hope of immortality by their "science falsely so-called." The burial of the dead is, no
doubt, a relic, since animals, even of the monkey tribe, do not bury their dead.

4. PLACE OF THE ORIGIN OF MAN

The unity of the human race is further proved by the fact that it originated in one locality
and not in many. The locality is the one described by Moses. And the fact that Moses
correctly located the beginning of the race, when he himself had no personal knowledge,
proves that he was inspired and taught of God. He never could have guessed the spot to
which history and the migration of nations point, and which the evolutionists themselves
are obliged to concede.
The habitable countries of the world total 50,670,837 sq. mi. We are making a generous
estimate, when we suppose the garden of Eden to have been 100 mi. wide and 125 mi.
long,--12,500 sq. mi. There are 4005 such areas in the habitable globe. It is located in
Mesopotamia on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Maps of ancient nations show that mankind radiated from this centre. The great nations
of antiquity were clustered about it. The beginning of the race after the flood was in the
same general locality.
Ridpath in his great history of the world, graphically shows the migrations of races and
nations. With this, even evolutionists agree. They draw a line "according to Giddings,"
running through western Asia, in the region of the garden of Eden. Since there are 4005
such areas in the habitable globe, Moses had only one chance out of 4005 to guess the
spot, if he had not been inspired of God. Anyone guessing, might have located the origin
of man in any of the countries of Europe, Asia or Africa. This clearly demonstrates that
God revealed the truth to Moses, and that the story of creation is true and of evolution
false.
If evolution were true, there must have been, 6,000 years ago, many heads to the race, in
many places. It is incredible that there would be but one spot where brutes became
humans. There would be an innumerable host of anthropoid brutes, in many parts of the
world, in all gradations. Who can believe that one species or one pair forged ahead so far
as to become human?

5. CIVILIZATIONS
The early civilization of man points to his creation, not his evolution. Evolution requires
many centers of civilization; creation, only one. Of course, if man is descended from an
ancient ape-like form, and from the Primates and their brute progeny, he must have been
as uncivilized and brutish as any baboon or gorilla today, or the apes, which, last year,
horribly mangled the children at Sierra Leone. He must have worked his way up into
civilization. The records, as far back as they go, prove that the original condition of man
was a state of civilization, not savagery. Man fell down, not up.
The recent explorations in the tomb of Tutankhamen, in Egypt, and the more recent
explorations of the tomb of a still more ancient Egyptian monarch, show that a high
degree of civilization prevailed from 2000 to 1300 B.C. The art displayed in the carvings
and paintings, and the skill