CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



downs on the surface of the earth are relatively less than the 

 irregularities on the skin of an orange. Now picture to 

 yourself the rocks of the Alps before they were folded and 

 raised, and you will see that they must have occupied a 

 greater area, as a folded tablecloth does when you smooth it 

 out. Thus you can appreciate that some of these masses 

 of rock have been shoved many miles and thrust over other 

 masses. Naturally, in such a process the original succession 

 has been disturbed. 



Now the evidence for these movements does not entirely 

 depend on the fossil remains of living creatures. Such fold- 

 ing and thrusting can be followed in the rocks of Finland, 

 which contain no fossils at all. But the presence of fossils 

 in the rocks, if we admit the evidence from undisturbed areas, 

 is of much help in working out the succession of the dis- 

 turbed rocks. The evidence is of just the same nature as 

 that on which we rely in tracing the history of some ancient 

 cathedral that has often been partly pulled down and 

 rebuilt. 



The evolutionist does not base his conclusions on evi- 

 dence from these disturbed areas, where indeed the fossils 

 are too often shattered and obscure. He is content to take 

 the far larger areas of the earth, where the succession is clear 

 and the rocks are only a little tilted. Wherever in such a 

 succession we are able to trace the history of a single group 

 of organisms, we find it perfectly continuous and regular. 

 Gaps there may be, but the more we explore and study the 

 fewer are the gaps. This continuous history always shows a 

 gradual change from the oldest to the newest forms, and at 

 no point is it possible to say that there was an entirely new 

 creation. 



It is not easy to find a great thickness of rock that was 

 laid down continuously through many thousands of years. 



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