The Little Book of Origins. Nils Thingvall

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1 The Little Book of Origins Nils Thingvall 1

2 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2

3 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3

4 God 1And said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw. the light, that it was good: And God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 4

5 God 2And said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. 5

6 God 3And said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. 6

7 God 3And 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. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. 7

8 God 4And said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 8

9 God 4And made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 9

10 God 5And said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. 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: and God saw that it was good. 10

11 them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 115And God blessed

12 6Vampire Bat, Persian Cat, Tiger, Cape Buffalo, Beaver, Black-footed Ferret, Dingo, Civet Cat, Field Mouse, Fisher, Giant Pacific Salamander, American Black Bear, Ermine, African Elephant, Red Squirrel, Monitor Lizard, Skink, Kangaroo, Racoon, Mountain Lion, Panda, Hyena, Labrador Retriever, Flying Squirrel, Axolotl, Gray Fox, Kodiak Bear, Garter Snake, Alpaca, Mongoose, Siberian Tiger, Black Widow Spider, Three-toed Sloth, Duck-billed Platypus, Mule Deer, Holstein And Cow, Rhodesian God Ridgeback, said, Ocelot, Mountain Goat, Diamondback Rattlesnake, Gnu, Shetland Ponies, Skunk, Porcupine, Dung Beetle, Komodo Dragon, Let the Cheetah, earth Spiny bring Echidna, forth Sheep, Chinchilla, Horny Toad, Timber Wolf, Jesus Lizard, Javelina, Jackrabbit, Antelope, Zebra, Martin, Polar Bear, Roosevelt the living Elk, Koala creature Bear, Bullfrog, Gecko, Lynx, Angler Spider, Mosquito, Lion, Clydesdale, Armadillo, Harbor Seal, Manx Cat, Polled Hereford, Vampire Bat, Persian after Cat, his Tiger, kind, Cape Buffalo, Beaver, Black-footed Ferret, Dingo, Civet Cat, Field Mouse, Fisher, Giant Pacific Salamander, cattle, and creeping thing, American Black Bear, Ermine, African Elephant, Red Squirrel, Monitor Lizard, Skink, Kangaroo, Racoon, and Mountain beast Lion, of the Panda, earth Hyena, Labrador Retriever, Flying Squirrel, Axolotl, Gray Fox, Kodiak Bear, Garter Snake, Alpaca, Mongoose, Siberian Tiger, Black after Widow his Spider, kind: Three-toed Sloth, Duck-billed Platypus, Mule Deer, Holstein Cow, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Ocelot, Mountain Goat, Diamondback Rattlesnake, and it Gnu, was Shetland so. Ponies, Skunk, Porcupine, Dung Beetle, Komodo Dragon, Cheetah, Spiny Echidna, Sheep, Chinchilla, Horny Toad, Timber Wolf, Jesus Lizard, Javelina, Jackrabbit, Antelope, Zebra, Martin, Polar Bear, Roosevelt Elk, Koala Bear, Bullfrog, Gecko, Lynx, Angler Spider, Mosquito, Lion, Clydesdale, Armadillo, Harbor Seal, Manx Cat, Polled Hereford, And Vampire God Bat, Persian Cat, made Tiger, Cape Buffalo, Beaver, Black-footed Ferret, Dingo, Civet Cat, Field Mouse, Fisher, Giant Pacific Salamander, Mole, American the beast Black Bear, of Ermine, the earth African Elephant, Red Squirrel, Monitor Lizard, Skink, Kangaroo, Racoon, Mountain Lion, Panda, Hyena, after his kind, and cattle Labrador Retriever, Flying Squirrel, Axolotl, Gray Fox, Kodiak Bear, Garter Snake, Alpaca, Mongoose, Siberian Tiger, Black Widow Spider, Three-toed after their kind, Sloth, Duck-billed Platypus, Mule Deer, Holstein Cow, Rhodesian Ridgeback, Ocelot, Mountain Goat, and Diamondback every thing Rattlesnake, that Gnu, Shetland Ponies, Skunk, Porcupine, Dung Beetle, Komodo Dragon, Cheetah, Spiny Echidna, Sheep, Chinchilla, Horny creepeth Toad, Timber upon Wolf, the Jesus earth Lizard, Javelina, Jackrabbit, Antelope, Zebra, Martin, Polar Bear, Roosevelt Elk, Koala Bear, Bullfrog, Gecko, Lynx, Angler Spider, after Mosquito, his Lion, kind: Clydesdale, Armadillo, Harbor Seal, Manx Cat, Polled Hereford, Vampire Bat, Persian Cat, Tiger, Cape Buffalo, Beaver, Black-footed Ferret, Dingo, Civet Cat, Field Mouse, Fisher, Giant Pacific Salamander, American Black Bear, Ermine, African Elephant, Red Squirrel, Monitor Lizard, Skink, Kangaroo, Racoon, Mountain Lion, Panda, Hyena, Labrador Retriever, and Flying God Squirrel, Axolotl, saw Gray Fox, Kodiak Bear, Garter Snake, Alpaca, Mongoose, Hedgehog, Siberian Tiger, Black Widow Spider, Three-toed Sloth, Duck-billed Platypus, Mule Deer, Holstein Cow, that it was good. 12

13 6The noble science of geology loses glory from the extreme imperfection of the record. The crust of the earth, with And its embedded God remains, must said, not be looked at as a well-filled museum, but as a poor collection made at hazard and at rare intervals. The accumulation of each great fossiliferous formation Let us will make be recognised as having depended on an unusual occurrence of favourable circumstances, and the blank intervals between the successive stages as having been of vast man duration. But we shall be able to gauge with some security the duration of these intervals by a comparison of the preceding and succeeding organic forms. We in must our be cautious image, in attempting to correlate as strictly contemporaneous two formations, which do not include many identical species, by the after our likeness: general succession of the forms of life. As species are produced and exterminated by slowly acting and still existing and causes, let and them not by have miraculous acts of creation; and as the most important of all causes of organic change is one which is almost independent of altered and perhaps suddenly altered dominion physical conditions, namely, the mutual relation of organism to organism--the improvement of one organism entailing the improvement or the extermination of over others; the it follows, fish that of the the amount sea, of organic change in the fossils of consecutive formations probably serves as a fair measure of the relative, though not actual lapse of time. and A number over of species, the fowl however, of keeping the in a body might remain for a long period unchanged, whilst within the same period, several of these species, air, and over the cattle, by migrating into new countries and coming into competition with foreign associates, might become modified; and so that over we must all not the overrate earth, the accuracy of organic change as a measure of time. In the future I see open fields and for far over more important every researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already well laid by Mr. Herbert Spencer, that of the necessary acquirement of creeping each mental power thing and capacity that by gradation. Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history. Authors of the highest creepeth eminence seem upon to be fully the satisfied earth. with the view that each species has been independently created. To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining So God the birth and death created of the individual. When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian man system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered in his likeness own to a image, distinct futurity. And of the species now living very few will transmit progeny of any kind to a far distant futurity; for the in the image of God manner in which all organic beings are grouped, shows that the greater number of species in each genus, and all the created species in many he genera, him; have left no descendants, but have become utterly extinct. We can so far take a prophetic glance into futurity as to foretell that it will be the common male and and widely female spread species, belonging to the larger and dominant groups within each class, which will ultimately prevail and procreate new and dominant species. As all created the living forms he of them. life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succi 13

14 And God blessed 6 them, and God said unto them, multiply multiply Be multiply fruitful, multiply and multiply, multiply multiply multiply multiply and multiply replenish multiply the multiply earth, multiply multiply and subdue it: multiply multiply and multiply have multiply dominion multiply over multiply multiply multiply multiply the multiply fish multiply of the multiply sea, and multiply multiply over the fowl of the air, and over every living multiply multiply thing multiply that multiply moveth multiply upon multiply multiply multiply multiply multiply the multiply earth. multiply multiply multiply And God said, Behold, I have given you multiply multiply every multiply herb multiply bearing multiply seed, multiply multiply multiply multiply which multiply is upon multiply the multiply face multiply of multiply all the earth, and every multiply multiply tree, multiply in the multiply which multiply is the multiply multiply multiply multiply multiply fruit multiply of a tree multiply multiply multiply yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 14

15 6And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the day. sixth 15

16 7Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made 16

17 God 7And blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made

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20 If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection. 20

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