Chapter 3 of a book by Charles Carroll (1900) is entitled: The Theory of Evolution Exploded; Man was Created a Man, and did not Develop from an Ape. This sentiment is in keeping with the views of a goodly number of present-day creationists, who believe that the Bible is the true guide to the history of all life on Earth. That is, these creationists believe the Bible is literally true, starting with: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1, King James Version). Earlier, in 1867, just after the end of the US Civil War, Buckner T Payne, writing as Ariel, had produced another creationist tract, which started by claiming “Truth, though sometimes slow in its power, is like itself, always consistent; and like its AUTHOR, will always be triumphant. The Bible is true.”
