CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



Greek botanist, a pupil of Aristotle, who was also a botanist, 

 classified plants, according to their most obvious resemblances 

 and differences, as trees, shrubs, half-shrubs, and herbs. This 

 was a very superficial classification, but it took centuries of 

 study by many keen minds to enable us to distinguish between 

 essential and superficial or accidental differences and like- 

 nesses. According to the classification of Theophrastus, 

 roses and apples fell into quite diverse groups, but in the 

 modern classification they are placed in the same group. 

 Other systems of classification are briefly indicated in Fig. 1. 



Again, in contemplating this exhibit, one cannot help but 

 ask himself the question, "How did all this orderly diversity 

 come about? Have all of these various kinds of plants 

 always existed? If not, which existed first? If they have 

 not always existed, by what method were they created?" 



It has been very natural for men to overlook the last ques- 

 tion, and merely inquire, "By whom were they created?" 

 This is a very proper question to ask, and full of absorbing 

 interest, but if one has the scientific type of mind, he is not 

 satisfied with this question, nor with any answer that may 

 be given to it. We said above that one cannot help but 

 ask himself the question, "How did all this orderly diversity 

 come about?" But the scientist does not ask himself this 

 question; he puts the question directly to Nature and seeks 

 his answer there. He wishes to know not only who, but hotv. 



Each question is important, but the answers are likely to 

 lead in different directions. One who was content merely 

 to know who made the first telephone could never have 

 invented nor helped to invent the radio; that could have 

 been done only by one who insisted on knowing the how 

 and the why — the structure, the mode of action, the under- 

 lying principles of the Bell telephone. In acquiring this 

 knowledge it was not necessary for him to forget the inventor 



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