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of inorganic matter; or that it arose, by spontaneous 

 generation, from such matter ; for it must necessarily 

 have originated in the one manner or in the other. 

 How else could it have come into existence? 



So far as I know, there are only two theories, 

 among educated and scientific men, as to the origin 

 of animals and plants. The one is that they were 

 directly and specially made by the Creator; the other 

 is that they arose by spontaneous generation, from 

 inorganic matter. Which of these is most plausible? 

 (Spencer, Principles Biology, vol. 1, pp. 415-416.) 



The evolutionist and materialist maintain that 

 the course of nature is "uniform, continuous and 

 everlasting;' that the earth is now behaving iden- 

 tically, as it has been ever since it came into existence ; 

 that animals and plants are now being evolved, as 

 in the past, while others are becoming extinct, and 

 that every animal and plant is merely a co-ordinated 

 term in natures "great progression.' (Huxley, Man's 

 Place in Nature, p. 151.) 



According to this view, if an animal or a plant 

 was ever spontaneously generated from inorganic 

 matter, we would naturally expect to find them aris- 

 ing in the same manner today, for there is no reason to 

 suppose that the nature of the "inorganic matter,' 

 which they say produced the first animal or plant, has 

 been exhausted ; nor that it has changed ; nor that the 

 conditions have changed, nor that the forces which 

 are supposed to have caused the spontaneous genera- 

 tion of the first animal and plant have ceased to exist. 



