Creation and Its Records
Baden-Powell, Baden Henry, 1841-1901
English
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CREATION AND ITS RECORDS.
pistei nooumen kathrtisqai touV aiwnaV rhmati qeou eiV to mh ek fainomenwn ta blepomena gegonenai — HEB. xi. 3.
A brief statement of Christian Belief with reference to Modern facts andAncient Scripture.
BY
B.H. BADEN-POWELL, C.I.E., F.R.S.E.
CONTENTS
PART I.
CHAPTER I.INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER II.THE ELEMENT OF FAITH IN CREATION
CHAPTER III.THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION STATED
CHAPTER IV.CREATIVE DESIGN IN INORGANIC MATTER
CHAPTER V.THE CREATION OF LIVING MATTER
CHAPTER VI.THE MARKS OF CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE IN THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC FORMS
CHAPTER VII.THE DESCENT OF MAN
CHAPTER VIII.FURTHER DIFFICULTIES REGARDING THE HISTORY OF MAN
CHAPTER IX.CONCLUDING REMARKS
PART II.
CHAPTER X.THE GENESIS NARRATIVE—ITS IMPORTANCE
CHAPTER XI.SCRIPTURE METHODS OF REVELATION
CHAPTER XII.METHODS OF INTERPRETING THE NARRATIVE—ASSUMPTIONS OF MEANING TO CERTAIN TERMS
CHAPTER XIII.THE GENESIS NARRATIVE CONSIDERED GENERALLY
(i.) THE FIRST PART OF THE NARRATIVE
(ii.) THE SECOND PART
CHAPTER XIV.THE INTERPRETATION SUPPORTED BY OTHER SCRIPTURES
CHAPTER XV.AND SUPPORTED BY THE CONTEXT
CHAPTER XVI.THE DETAILS OF THE CREATION NARRATIVE
APPENDIX.
PROFESSOR DELITZSCH ON THE GARDEN OF EDEN
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY
Among the recollections that are lifelong, I have one as vivid as everafter more than twenty-five years have elapsed; it is of an eveninglecture—the first of a series—given at South Kensington to workingmen. The lecturer was Professor Huxley; his subject, the Common Lobster.All the apparatus used was a good-sized specimen of the creature itself,a penknife, and a black-board and chalk. With such materials theprofessor gave us not only an exposition, matchless in its lucidity, ofthe structure of the crustacea, but such an insight into the purposesand methods of biological study as few could in those days haveanticipated. For there were as yet no Science Primers, no InternationalSeries; and the "new biology" came upon us like the revelation ofanother world. I think that lecture gave me, what I might otherwisenever have got (and what some people never get), a profound convictionof the reality and meaning of facts in nature. That impression I have
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