CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



main body of its species will tend to form a local race charac- 

 terized by racial differences; second, if the environments of 

 two groups thus separated are different, the standard of sur- 

 vival will be different, not only for the older characters but 

 for the ever-recurring mutations as well. In the course of 

 time these divergent forces inevitably create distinct species. 



In his studies of contemporary life the geneticist has actu- 

 ally observed the process of evolution in operation. The 

 processes observable to-day, if projected into the past, would 

 be adequate to account for the evolution that has taken place 

 in the past. Science had taught us that the present and the 

 past are one; if we can analyze the present we have the key 

 to the past and to the future. Evolution is obviously going 

 on to-day. What better proof than this do we need for our 

 belief that evolution has gone on in the past? 



In conclusion let us say that the principle of evolution is 

 so well established by the amassed evidence derived from 

 every field of science that it has come to be regarded in 

 scientific circles as one of the great laws of nature, ranking 

 with the law of gravitation in scope and validity. And now 

 a word for the theologian: Evolution no more takes God 

 out of the universe than does gravitation. Both these great 

 principles are mere manifestations of the grand strategy of 

 Nature. They indicate the methods used by the ruling 

 power back of the universe. The theory of evolution, as has 

 often been said, does not deny creation; it merely explains 

 the method of creation. 



REFERENCES 



Lull, R. S. Organic Evolution. The Macmillan Co., 1917. 



Lull, R. S. and others. The Evolution of the Earth and its Inhab- 

 itants. Yale Univ. Press, 1918. 



Newman, H. H. Evolution, Genetics, and Eugenics (2nd ed.). 

 The University of Chicago Press, 1925. 



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