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Scripture and science will be ultimately found to 

 coincide. 



But here we have to face an objection which you 

 will often hear now from scientific men, and still 

 oftener from non-scientific men ; who will say : It 

 matters not to us whether Scripture contradicts or 

 does not contradict a scientific natural theology ; for 

 we hold such a science to be impossible and naught. 

 The old Jews put a God into Nature, and therefore 

 of course they could see, as you see, what they had 

 already put there. But we see no God in Nature. 

 We do not deny the existence of a God ; we merely 

 say that scientific research does not reveal Him to us. 

 We see no marks of design in physical phenomena. 

 What used to be considered as marks of design can 

 be better explained by considering them as the results 

 of evolution according to necessary laws ; and you 

 and Scripture make a mere assumption when you 

 ascribe them to the operation of a mind like the human 

 mind. 



Now, on this point I believe we may answer fear- 

 lessly : If you cannot see it we cannot help you. If 

 the heavens do not declare to you the glory of God, 

 nor the firmament show you His handy-work, then 

 our poor arguments about them will not show it. 

 "The eye can only see that which it brings with it 

 the power of seeing." We can only reassert that we 

 see design everywhere, and that the vast majority of 

 the human race in every age and clime has seen it. 

 Analogy from experience, sound induction (as we 

 hold) from the works not only of . men but of animals, 

 has made it an all but self-evident truth to us, that 

 wherever there is arrangement, there must be an 



