32 THE OEIGIN OF MAN 



faith in chance than a Christian is required to have in 

 God. 



Is it conceivable that the hawk and the humming- 

 bird, the spider and the honey bee, the turkey gobbler 

 and the mocking-bird, the butterfly and the eagle, the 

 ostrich and the wren, the tree toad and the elephant, 

 the giraffe and the kangaroo, the wolf and the lamb 

 should all be the descendants of a common ancestor? 

 Yet these and all other creatures must be blood rela- 

 tives if man is next of kin to the monkey. 

 >. If the evolutionists are correct; if it is true that all 

 that we see is the result of development from one or 

 a few invisible germs of life, then, in plants as well as 

 in animals there must be a line of descent connecting 

 all the trees and vegetables and flowers with a common 

 ancestry. Does it not strain the imagination to the 

 breaking point to believe that the oak, the cedar, the 

 pine and the palm are all the progeny of one ancient 

 seed and that this seed was also the ancestor of wheat 

 and com, potato and tomato, onion and sugar beet, 

 rose and violet, orchid and daisy, mountain flower and 

 magnolia? Is it not more rational to believe in God 

 and explain the varieties of life in terms of divine 

 power than to waste our lives in ridiculous attempts to 

 explain the unexplainable ? There is no mortification 

 in admitting that there are insoluble mysteries ; but it 

 is shameful to spend the time that God has given for 

 nobler use in vain attempts to exclude God from His 

 own universe and to find in chance a substitute for 

 God's power and wisdom and love. 



While evolution in plant life and in animal life up to 



