THE BOOK OF GENESIS, AND SCIENCE 85

 But a body is not a livingg soul." It took a "breath"-better
translated a "spirit"-to enter the body of a brute and cause a
man to walk forth. Practically all scientists recognize the tre-
mendous gap between the intelligence of the highest ape and that
of the lowest man. It is true that numerous parts of skeletons
of man-like apes or ape-like men have been found, which may
be so-called "missing links" in the course of human develop-
ment. These raise questions that no scientist feels wholly com-
petent to answer in full, and the study of these bones should be
left to experts for such light as may ultimately be shed as to the
nature of the creature whose skeleton included them. The
honest theologian, even as the honest scientist, admits the ex-
istence of many problems in his realms of study for which in-
fallible answers have not been revealed.
 Now with the "breath of life" a body came to possess a "soul."
It is true that a certain group of scientists and some theologians
do not wish to consider a "soul" as too separate from the highly
developed "mind" that man possesses. The distinction is not
important to us in this discussion; man's mind is far above the
minds of even the most intelligent animals. And who indeed but
the Creator knows whether the "sparrow that falls" may not
have a soul of sorts by which it worships God in its own fashion?.
Such an idea, of course, is neither a fact of theology nor of
science.
 With this "soul" man became a creature "in the image of
God." This "image" is wholly a spiritual one. To assume that
a resemblance in body (man and God) is implied is a literal in-
terpretation of the lowest degree. A God with skin and hair-
with bones and blood-even with lungs and heart and intes-
tines-the concept is degrading! He who argues such simply
has no appreciation of what is holy and high; his thinking is of
the flesh and not of the spirit. "God is a spirit, and they who
worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John
4:24.)
 There is nothing really inconsistent in the liberal (not literal)
interpretation of Genesis, and the proved facts of science, with
the idea that man is both a physical and a spiritual being. If his
body, like the bodies of other animals, has developed through