A Story Outline of Evolution 



All arguments in an attempted explanation of the origin of 

 life lead only in a circle. If man was made out of proto- 

 plasm or dust, then the question naturally arises — who made 

 the protoplasm or dust? 



It matters not whether man was created in an instant 

 or in ten million years, the result is still the same. Genesis 

 recites : "And God said. Let us make man in our image, after 

 our likeness." Bible scholars tell us that this is not physical 

 and has no reference to the body, but to the spiritual side of 

 man. The traditional belief was that God had a body and 

 sat on a throne, whereas our modern conception of God is 

 that He is a spirit and therefore our possible likeness to 

 Him is in moral and spiritual attributes. 



It must be remembered that the Bible is a book of Reli- 

 gion and not of Science. It is the most permanent founda- 

 tion of the conduct of men and deals with the moral and 

 spiritual progress of the human race. Matters affecting the 

 moral and spiritual affairs of men are subject to our religious 

 beliefs or ideas of God and His relation to the universe and 

 they are largely a matter of personal faith. Matters affect- 

 ing the natural order come directly within the field of direct 

 observation and are subject to proof. The Hebrew con- 

 ception of creation was that of the work of a master magi- 

 cian, while that of Theistic Evolution is that of a living, 

 immanent, ever-working God. It teaches that nothing has 

 come by chance but that creation is a marvelous order which 

 has been worked out and is being perfected through natural 

 law. No child should be taught that the Bible tells the 

 story of Nature as it has been revealed to us through the 



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