CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



did not agree with the facts upon which it was based. A 

 good theory must meet and explain all new facts within the 

 scope of its applicability that come to light subsequent to its 

 proposal. Since Darwin's Origin of Species was published 

 ten times as many new facts about organic nature have been 

 discovered as were known to Darwin. One after another 

 new and radical discoveries that involve profound alterations 

 in our fundamental views of life have been made, but none 

 of them have in any way shaken our confidence in the theory 

 of evolution. Had any new discovery in the least weakened 

 or run counter to that theory its ever-watcliful enemies would 

 have pounced upon the discovery and exploited it to the 

 fullest extent. But no discovery since Darwin's time has 

 done other than strengthen and confirm the theory. The 

 more specialized a branch of biology becomes, the more use- 

 ful and necessary is the concept of evolution. Those that are 

 most expert in the advanced and technical branches of 

 biology are the most ardent advocates of evolution, for their 

 data demand an evolutionary interpretation. 



The evidences of evolution have been piled up year after 

 year until their sheer mass now overwhelms all intelligent 

 opposition. One who exposes himself open-mindedly to the 

 evidences can no longer believe in a static world inhabited by 

 fixed and unchanging species. 



If evolution were a false doctrine, it should be easy to 

 refute it by bringing forward facts that would contradict it. 

 From time to time facts or alleged facts supposed to conflict 

 with the principle of evolution have been brought forward 

 by those who sought to overthrow it. Invariably, however, 

 a more exhaustive study by trained scientists has shown that 

 not only are the facts cited not contrary to evolution, but that 

 they tend strongly to confirm it. To-day no adequately 



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