ABSTRACT
When Moses records with that significant brevity that characterizes all his inspired utterances, “And God created . . . every winged thing after its kind” he gave the only intelligent, scientific and acceptable explanation the world has ever received for the mystery of the realm of ornithology! Having considered in the first half of this paper the section of the first chapter of Genesis that deals with the creatures of the water, we now come to the contrasting type of life, mentioned as created on this same day, which dwells not in the water, but in the air. In a certain very definite sense of resemblance, the birds and the fish belong together in the one record. Birds may be said to swim through the air and fish to fly through the water. Equally they are equipped to resist the law of gravity, and able to live by their very nature in the environments which tolerate man for only brief hours, and then often exact the death penalty for his intrusion.
