The Origin of Life

To ask a rather hackneyed question, Was the seed before the plant? or the plant before the seed? The latter is what we believe. However, some think the seed was before the plant. They are led to think so by the way they read the King James Version of Gen. 1:12. They place a hyphen between “herb” and “yielding,” and so read the text as though it said, “the earth brought forth . . . herb-yielding seed.” This means that from the earth there came not an herb, as such, but a certain kind of seed —...