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those who deal with the things that are eternal ? Why 

 should the Bible, which the centuries have not been 

 able to shake, be discarded for scientific works that s 

 have to be revised and corrected every few years ? j 

 The preference should be given to the Bible. 



The two lines of work are parallel. There should 

 be no conflict between the discoverers of real truths, 

 because real truths do not conflict. Every truth har- 

 monizes with every other truth, but why should an 

 hypothesis, suggested by a scientist, be accepted as true 

 until its truth is established? Science should be the 

 last to make such a demand because science to be truly 

 science is classified knowledge ; it is the explanation of 

 facts. Tested by this definition, Darwinism is not 

 science at all; it is guesses strung together. There is 

 more science in the twenty-fourth verse of the first 

 chapter of Genesis (And God said, let the eartii bring 

 forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and 

 creeping things, and beast of the earth after his kind; 

 and it was so. ) than in all that Darwin wrote. 



It is no light matter to impeach the veracity of the 

 Scriptures in order to accept, not a truth — ^not even a 

 theory — ^but a mere hypothesis. Professor Huxley 

 says, "There is no fault to be found with Darwin's 

 method, but it is another thing whether he has fulfilled 

 all the conditions imposed by that method. Is it satis- 

 factorily proved that species may be originated by se- 

 lection ? That none of the phenomena exhibited by the 

 species are inconsistent with the origin of the species 

 in this way? If these questions can be answered in 

 the affirmative, Mr. Darwin's view steps out of the 



