26 THE OBIGIN OF MA:N 



While on this subject it may be worth while to call 

 your attention to other fantastic imaginings of which 

 those are guilty who reject the Bible and enter the field 

 of speculation — ^fiction surpassing anything to be 

 found in the Arabian Nights. If one accepts the 

 Scriptural account of the creation, he can credit God 

 with the working of miracles and with the doing of 

 many things that man cannot understand. The evolu- • 

 tionist, however, having substituted what he imagines 

 to be a universal law for separate acts of creation must 

 explain everything. The evolutionst, not to go back 

 farther than life just now, begins with one or a few 

 invisible germs of life on the planet and imagines that 

 these invisible germs have, by the operation of what 

 they call "resident forces," unaided from without, de- 

 veloped into all that we see to-day. They cannot in a 

 lifetime explain the things that have to be explained, if 

 their hypothesis is accepted — a useless waste of time 

 even if explanation were possible. 



Take the eye, for instance ; believing in the Mosaic 

 account, I believe that God made the eyes when He | 

 made man — not only made the eyes but carved out the 

 caverns in the skull in which they hang. It is easy for 

 the believer in the Bible to explain the eyes, because he 

 believes in a God who can do all things and, according 

 to the Bible, did create man as a part of a divine plan. 



But how does the evolutionist explain the eye when 

 he leaves God out ? Here is the only guess that I have 

 seen — if you find any others I shall be glad to know of 

 them, as I am collecting the guesses of the evolution- j 

 fets. The evolutionist guesses that there was a time 



