Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter XXV: Plants and Animals.
senseamong those that we see as right. As Jackson Snyder pointed out, however,
the following notions were commonly believed true, not unlike the philosophies
of Charles Darwin which are just as far-fetched taken as scientific
Creator, as Darwinism is, and they are anomalies among all the other pronouncements
made in these chapters concerning the workings of the creation.
Before we condemn these ideas, we should consider that Yahweh no doubt
also finds that some of our perceptions about Him and His Creation are, to say
the least, inaccurate, yet extends His mercy and graciousness to us all. Consid-
dat the times of
this ignorance El winked Praised be His set-apart Name!)
nimals? Is it
not providence that has ordained that plants, when they decay
by old age, should be reproduced by the suckers or the seeds
which they have themselves produced, and animals by propagation?
And by a certain wonderful dispensation of providence,
milk is prepared in the udders of the dams for the
animals before they are born; and as soon as they are born,
with no one to guide them they seek out the store of nourishment
provided for them. And not only males are produced, but
females also, that by means of both the race may be perpetuated.
But lest this should seem, as some think, to be done by
a certain order of nature, and not by the appointment of the
Creator, He has, as a proof and indication of His providence,
ordained a few animals to preserve their stock on the earth in
an exceptional way. For example, the crow conceives through
the mouth, and the weasel brings forth through the ear; and
some birds, such as hens, sometimes produce eggs conceived
of wind or dust; other animals convert the male into the female,
and change their sex every year, as hares and hyenas,
which they call monsters; others spring from the earth, and
get their bodies from it, as moles; others from ashes, as vipers;
others from putrefying flesh, as wasps from horseflesh, bees
from ox-flesh; others from cow dung, as beetles; others from
herbs, as the scorpion from the basil; and again, herbs from