The Literal Creation Record
No, professor, no; "the story of woman's creation" is not an "allegory." Facts are against that delusion; and the one fact that more than all else refutes the "allegory" theory is the literal presence of the woman. Allegories do not produce anything material, nor do they account for anything material. An allegory may illustrate a principle, but it can not record a material fact. The moment it does so, it ceases to be an allegory. If "the story of woman's creation" be an allegory, then must the whole creation story be allegorical. But there are the material facts in evidence, literal things visible to the natural eye, which can not be literally described allegorically. In order to have practical knowledge of the creation of literal things we must have literal description, and that is what the Creator has given us in the Biblical account. God does not deceive His children by telling them one thing while He would have them believe something else. They are deceived who do not believe His Word, and it is this class, who, by turning the truth of God into fiction, bring upon themselves "strong delusion, that they may believe a lie." If "the anthropologist who is honestly investigating the origin of the human species" would believe the inspired Record, he could save much time and labor to devote to profitable investigation in other lines—for instance, the salvation of the "human species." The Word of God is truth, and is worthy of all investigation, because in it is the wisdom and knowledge that all men need.