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Title: Creation and Its Records

Author: B.H. Baden-Powell

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_CREATION AND ITS RECORDS_.

[Greek: Pistei nooumen kataertisthai tous aionas rhemati theou eis to
mi ek fainomenon to Blepomenon gegonenai.]--HEB. xi. 3.

CREATION AND ITS RECORDS.

A brief statement of Christian Belief with reference to Modern facts and
Ancient 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 ever
after more than twenty-five years have elapsed; it is of an evening
lecture--the first of a series--given at South Kensington to working
men. The lecturer was Professor Huxley; his subject, the Common Lobster.
All