CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



center of the universe; that in the universe we can "see no 

 trace of a beginning nor prospect of an end," and that "time 

 is as long as space is wide"; that the antipodes are really 

 inhabited by real people; that 20,000 air breathing animals 

 (outside of insects) could not foregather in pairs in the 

 Ark; that fossils are relics of once-living creatures; that fossil 

 shells are not evidence of the flood; that the Lord is not 

 appeased by burnt offerings of lambs or of men; that lunatics 

 are not possessed by devils nor yet struck by moonbeams; 

 that the cure for scrofula is not found in the touch of a 

 king; that no divinity indeed doth hedge a king, nor even 

 the state; that a comet has its orbit and appears on its own 

 business, not ours; that the penalty for wrong-doing is ours 

 now and is within us; that ignorance and superstition are 

 perilous guides for conduct; and that only Truth makes us 

 free! 



All our present conclusions concerning these matters and 

 a thousand more are results of scientific research, not of 

 religion as that word is commonly defined. To give one 

 more example, however: Does any educated person now 

 respect the dictum ascribed to Archbishop Ussher, who said, 

 200 years ago, that "Heaven and earth, center and circum- 

 ference, were created all together at the same instant, with 

 the clouds full of water, on October 24, 4004 B.C., at 9 

 o'clock in the morning?" And yet time was when to dis- 

 credit this baseless pronouncement may have been held to 

 cast one into outer darkness. 



By the cooperation of observers and investigators much 

 of the debris of our grandfather's science has already been 

 cleared away, and with it necessarily the preconception of 

 a special creation of the myriads of species of animals and 

 plants and the assumed chasm between humanity and our 

 lowly mammalian brothers. The collision of ideas which 



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