In dealing with the creation of life, whether of vegetable, or animal, Moses used an arresting phrase no less than ten times, which is utterly destructive of the theory of evolution. He wrote, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself" (Gen. 1:1111And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. (Genesis 1:11)). "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind" (Gen. 1:2121And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:21)). "And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind" (Gen. 1:2525And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:25)). There is a striking parallel to this in the New Testament. We read, "All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is ONE KIND OF FLESH of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes., and another of birds" (1 Cor. 13: 39).
The writer well remembers conducting a series of meetings, and in one of them dealing with the subject, Creation versus Evolution, he quoted this striking and decisive verse. Present in the audience was a gifted servant of the Lord, who was immensely struck with its force. For years whenever the writer met him he invariably spoke of the pleasure and help the quotation of this verse had been to him.
But what was meant by this oft-repeated phrase, "After his kind." The Spirit of God surely meant something very definite by it. It clearly affirms that each species in nature is distinct from every other species, that there is no such thing as one species blending with another, that there is no such thing in nature as transmutation.
To make the matter clear, the meaning of species should be clearly understood. The dictionary explains species as follows: -" A group of individuals having common marks or characteristics specialized from others of the same genus to which it is subordinate." For instance, there is the canine species, including the wolf, the fox, the jackal, the dog, etc. There is the feline species, including the lion, the tiger, the panther, the cat, etc. The members of one species do not breed in their natural state with members of another species.
We must keep the difference between mongrel and hybrid clear in our minds. A mongrel is the offspring of two varieties in the same species. For instance, we might see a dog, which was half-alsatian and half greyhound; or a barn fowl half-minorca and half-orpington. Such are the offspring of two varieties of the same species, and are FERTILE. Left to nature there is always the tendency with mongrels to revert to type, such as pouter pigeons, tumblers, etc., reverting to the original type of the species to which they belong, the common blue rock-pigeon.
On the other hand, hybrids are the offspring of parents of two different species. Left to nature these are very rare indeed. The commonest hybrid is the mule, the offspring of an ass and a horse, and very generally brought about by man's arrangement. But hybrids are sterile, infertile, and CANNOT BREED. Nature stops the transmutation between two members of different species. That is the meaning of "after his kind." That phrase alone kills the evolution theory, for theory it is without any proof in nature. The reason why this unhappy guess, dignified with the name of theory, should have deceived multitudes to the destruction of their faith in the Scriptures, is stated with devastating plainness and force in Scripture:- "And even as they did not LIKE to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind [margin, a mind void of judgment" (Rom. 1:2828And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (Romans 1:28)).
Scripture nails the lie of evolution to the counter, and shows plainly why it has so largely succeeded.
Very leading scientists, such as Professor Patrick Geddes and the late Sir J. Arthur Thompson, however, acknowledge that evolution has not been remotely proved, and is still a complete enigma, which they hope some scientist in the future will be able to solve; but which we, who believe the Bible, know they can never do. They say:—"We must leave that rich mastery of THE EVOLUTION SECRET, we once hoped for, to the successors, we would fain send out so much better equipped" (Evolution, p. 232). That is sufficient acknowledgment of complete failure to prove Darwin's theories, and those of numerous writers on the subject of evolution.
We have now seen there is in Gen. 1 no room for Pantheism, no room for Idolatry, no room for Unitarianism, no room for Christian Science, no room for Evolution. Most certainly the Author of Gen. 1, God Himself, had prevision of what errors would come into the world, and gave an account of creation that would have preserved mankind from these evils, if it had been studied and believed.
In all these evil things a blow is alike struck at the very being of God. Moses, a mere man, could not have foreseen all this. What proof this is that the Author of Gen. 1 and 2 is GOD HIMSELF.