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professor in a Christian college has recently expressed 

 himself along substantially the same lines.) 



But what has God been doing since the " stuff " be- 

 gan to develop? The verbs used by Canon Barnes 

 indicate an internal development unaided from above. 

 "Arose, came, emerged, etc.,'* all exclude the idea that 

 God is within reach or call in man's extremity. 



When I was a boy in college the materialists began 

 with matter separated into infinitely small particles and 

 every particle separated from every other particle by 

 distance infinitely great. But now they say that it 

 takes 1,740 electrons to make an atom of infinite fine- 

 ness. God, they insist, has not had anything to do 

 with this universe since 1,740 electrons formed a 

 chorus and sang, " We'll be an atom by and by." 



It requires measureless credulity to enable one to 

 believe that all that we see about us came by chance, 

 by a series of happy-go-lucky accidents. If only an 

 infinite God could have formed hydrogen and oxygen 

 and united them in just the right proportions to pro- 

 duce water — the daily need of every living thing — 

 scattered among the flowers all the colours of the rain- 

 bow and every variety of perfume, adjusted the mock- 

 ing-bird's throat to its musical scale, and fashioned a 

 soul for man, why should we want to imprison such a 

 Cxod in an impenetrable past? This is a living world; 

 why not a living God upon the throne? Why not 

 allow Him to work nozvf 



Darwin is so sure that his theory is correct that he 

 is ready to accuse the Creator of trying to deceive man 

 if the theory is not sound. On page 41 he says: " To 



