Evolution in General 



extending from the first protoplasmic cell to the most dis- 

 tant star and that all things are related to one another and 

 are living under the same universal laws, we are convinced 

 that nothing that lives on earth has come by chance. That 

 there is a great creating, controlling and directing Power 

 back of all things, in all things and above all things which 

 we call God. These scientists do not dispute this Power. 

 They recognize this Supreme Power. They are searching 

 to discover what God has done and is doing, how it was 

 done and why it was done that way. 



There is nothing in Evolution that challenges the vital 

 truth of religion or that contradicts the true principles of 

 Christianity. Everything in the Bible story of Creation 

 relates to questions effecting the order of the natural world 

 except the first verse of the first chapter of Genesis which 

 declares that — "In the beginning, God created the heavens 

 and the earth." Evolution does not challenge this state- 

 ment. It admits that all finite existence has been called into 

 being by a Power which transcends the finite. It must be 

 admitted that a Power that has developed all life from the 

 lowest forms that we know to the present forms of life 

 could have created all life in its present forms as easily in 

 an instant as in a thousand million years, but such was 

 not the method chosen. Evolution is concerned with the 

 methods which the Creator has.actually pursued. It, there- 

 fore, is not the enemy of religion, for Mental Evolution 

 embraces all of religion. The many evidences of Evolution 

 are the only scientific proofs of a directing and divine Crea- 

 tor we can have. The harmony of Creation is the means 

 man uses to justify his religion. 



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