Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ticulars of its application to the MANNER OF THE BEGINNING.—FIAT AND EVOLUTION. 189 world history and life history of ourplanet. The hypothesis of creation is generallyunderstood to signify the production of General explica- the world Ollt of naught. tion of the hy. perhaps the beliefs of those pothesis of crea- r tion- who hold the theory of phenomenal creation are not altogetheruniform and consistent on this poi
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . ticulars of its application to the MANNER OF THE BEGINNING.—FIAT AND EVOLUTION. 189 world history and life history of ourplanet. The hypothesis of creation is generallyunderstood to signify the production of General explica- the world Ollt of naught. tion of the hy. perhaps the beliefs of those pothesis of crea- r tion- who hold the theory of phenomenal creation are not altogetheruniform and consistent on this general, however, the belief is thatihe matter of the earth was brought intoexistence by the fiat of the Almighty. the universe was spoken phenomenallyinto existence out of nothing, and thisview is still maintained by the greatmajority of those who hold to thehypothesis of immediate creation. As we have said on a former page, thebelief in a creative fiat as the producingagency of the world and its Literal accept-inhabitants, has included ^Ton^f\lT~ as One of its features the Book of Genesis. notion that our globe was produced im-mediately, and not through intermediate. AGE OF FISHES, OR THE FOURTH DAY. Some hold that the creative act, as itrelates to the earth, was only formative—that the matter of our globe existedalready in space, and that the act ofcreation had respect to the production ofour sphere and its fitting for the abodeand life arena of plants and animals andman. This view is to a certain extenta concession to scientific discovery inrecent times. Up to the close of the lastcentury the popular and scholastic beliefwas that the matter of our world and of stages. The statements contained inthe first chapters of Genesis were ac-cepted literally throughout the Christianand Mohammedan nations. Accordingto the account referred to, the space ofsix days was assigned for the creativework. The account in Genesis is seem-ingly succinct. Each of the days is oc-cupied w
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