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laws of the different laboratory sciences place in the way of his biological 

 findings. For example, Physics tells him that no more work can be ob- 

 tained from a machine than is put into it, and that nothing can rise higher 

 than its source. Then the evolutionist tells him (in contradiction to 

 these laws) that more complex forms come from those less complex. 

 This belies both laws, for Intelligence is certainly something higher, and 

 more than non-living matter. And intelligence cannot be explained in 

 terms of either physics or chemistry. 



If it be told the student that the energy of the sun furnishes the 

 energy which can do all these things, and that there is a law known as 

 the conservation of energy, he will read the statement of various emi- 

 nent physicists who tell him that the sun's heat will gradually become 

 less and less, finally becoming entirely dispersed. Consequently there 

 will not be as much as there once was, and the law is broken. This 

 brings him back to the place from which he started. *How did the 

 energy and the potentiality of a simple organism become complex, and 

 how did the developing intelligence become what it is, unless it got it 

 from something still greater?" 



1 1 . Language and Intelligence. 



If it be proved that plants and animals have arisen in an ever-ascend- 

 ing plane, how account for language and intelligence (true ability at 

 thinking which is then expressed in words) ? Can this psuchus or 

 psychon, or real intellectual part of man, have come from anything less 

 than a still greater intelligence? 



12. Continuity. 



As was shown in the chapter on the "History of Biology," the very 

 foundation of science, as now understood, is based on the law of con- 

 tinuity, namely, that the laws of nature never vary. Yet we find all 

 biologists agreeing that the law of continuity has been broken, by the 

 fact that living forms must have once sprung from non-living, a con- 

 dition now no longer true. This is the great "heresy" of evolutionary 

 science. As life and mentality do not now 7 operate as they once did, 

 when, where and how did they begin? 



13. No Satisfactory Theory of Evolution. 



No theory of evolution yet propounded is satisfactory because none 

 has satisfied the requirements set forth above. 



14. Impossibility of a Satisfactory Physical Explanation. 



There exist certain rays known as infra-red, and ultra-violet, which 

 no human eye can see ; yet, these rays can be proved to exist by the 

 physicist. If the ultra-violet rays are thrown upon a group of brown 

 ants they will immediately scatter quite hurriedly, thus demonstrating 

 their ability to sense rays which man cannot. 



