55. We may ask, what brought about this change from female to male kinship. Modern evolutionists who will not admit a Divine revelation say that, first of all universal promiscuity prevailed; and as no man knew his own children, in consequence, therefore, female-kinship alone was recognized. But the foremost evolutionists, Darwin and Spencer, say that such promiscuity never prevailed; and that is very strong evidence against the theory, for they were the chief evolutionists. And besides, the Bible reveals the truth to us, and we need not stay to consider the evolutionists’ theory. God’s marriage law established female kinship, in the beginning; and why should such a hateful character as Lamech ever have been delineated in the Bible, excepting to record the violation of this marriage law, and the beginning of polygamy? A little further on, in the opening verses of the 6th chapter of Genesis, we read of the wholesale appropriation of women: “and the earth was filled with violence,” the record says. Lamech’s son “whetted cutting instruments,” as we read, in chapter four; and the first use of weapons of warfare was for the capture of women. As these captive wives were torn from their kindred, they became identified with their husband’s kin, as well as their children; and so male kinship came to pass. The flood did not exterminate the habit of capturing women, for we read, in judges, of Deborah waging war with Sisera, for his crimes against women; and Sisera’s mother is represented as watching for her son’s return with the spoils of war,—”to every warrior a damsel or two.”