28 THE OEIGIN OF MAN 



of a little book recently issued by a prominent New 

 York minister, the following: 



" Man has grown up in this universe gradually de- 

 veloping his powers and functions as responses to his 

 environment. If he has eyes, so the biologists assure 

 us, it is because light waves played upon the skin and 

 eyes came out in answer; if he has ears it is because 

 the air waves were there first and the ears came out to 

 hear. Man never yet, according to the evolutionist, 

 has developed any power save as a reality called it into 

 being. There would be no fins if there were no water, 

 no wings if there were no air, no legs if there were no 

 land." 



You see I only called your attention to forty per cent, 

 of the absurdities ; he speaks of eyes, ears, fins, wings 

 and legs — five. I only called attention to eyes and 

 legs — tw^o. The evolutionist guesses himself away 

 from God, but he only makes matters worse. How 

 long did the " light waves " have to play on the skin 

 before the eyes came out? The evolutionist is very 

 deliberate; he is long on time. He would certainly 

 give the eye thousands of years, if not millions, in 

 which to develop; but how could he be sure that the 

 light waves played all the time in one place or played 

 in the same place generation after generation until the 

 development was complete? And why did the light 

 waves quit playing when two eyes were perfected? 

 Why did they not keep on playing until there were eyes 

 all over the body? Why do they not play to-day, so 

 that we may see eyes in process of development? And 

 if the light waves created the eyes, why did they not 



