THE DOGMA OF EVOLUTION 



ogy are valid for certain classes of phenomena and 

 within restricted periods of time. Again, as another 

 example, if a man is standing still, he will remain in 

 that position forever according to the laws of physics 

 unless he be constrained to move by some external 

 force. But, it is common experience, that the man 

 may, by thought, will to bend his knees ; his muscles 

 contract, and he moves. The physicist can find no ex- 

 ternal cause for this motion and it is, so far as he is 

 concerned, a miracle, transcending the laws of phys- 

 ics. As for biology and psychology, they cannot tell 

 whether the man will move, why he moves, when he 

 will move, or where he will move. Not to be able to 

 predict any of these actions removes the action from 

 the laws of science. For the solution of this problem 

 of simple motion, no objective observations or exper- 

 iments will find a cause; it is locked up in the subjec- 

 tive mind of the man who moves. 



It is said that Cardinal Newman was once re- 

 proached because of his acceptance, under authority, 

 of the many miracles of the Catholic Church. To this 

 reproach, he answered that the belief in God was so 

 supreme and so awful a miracle that, when he had 

 compelled himself to admit that on faith, all others 

 seemed trivial. Yet the belief in God is the most gen- 

 eral belief of all times. Most evolutionists indignant- 

 ly deny atheism. And faith in God, whether it be the 

 idol of the barbarian, the Inscrutable Power of Spen- 

 cer and Fiske, or the Divine Spirit of the Christian or 



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