CREATION AND CREATIANISM. 75 



beginning God created the heaven and the earth." 

 " Through faith we understand that the worlds were 

 framed by the word of God, so that things which 

 are seen were not made of things which do appear " 

 (Heb. xi. 3). We gain nothing by keeping this 

 truth, if it is a truth, as a "skeleton in the cup- 

 board," and complaisantly thanking the evolutionist 

 for explaining nothing. 1 



II. From Creation I go on to Creatianism. 

 Whether God called into being some one reality 

 which was to be by His Will the germ of all things, 

 or whether, as St. Augustine suggests, 2 He created 

 at first many germs which should develop accord- 

 ing to their own laws, i.e. according to His good 

 pleasure and in His own way, does not affect the 

 fact of Creation. From that primary Creation to 

 the Creation of Man everything may have been, 

 and probably was, the result of that creative 

 activity which we call evolution. At present there 

 are gaps in the process. The problem of archebiosis 

 or archegony is not solved, and the balance of 

 scientific opinion is against it, so that the inorganic 



1 Similarly in St. Athan., De Incarn., ii., God is shown to be 

 KTiarrjs not Texvtrrjs : ''Ecrrai 8e, et ovrcas fX l ) K T ' O-VTOVS 6 ebs 



T6XWT17S (J.6vOV KOt OV KTl<TTr)S 15 T& efl/tti, 1 T$)V VTrOKfljJ.4vt]V 1/A.7JI/ 



epya^erat, TTJS Se VA.TJS OVK tcrny avrbs alnos. 



Cf. the Shepherd of Hennas, ii. I, Tlpwrov iravrcav Triffrevaov, 8rt 

 els tffTiv 6 Gibs, 6 ra iravra. KTiVos ol /carapTiVos, /cat 7rot7j<ras *K rov 

 ^ OVTOS els rb eZj/at. 



2 De Genesi, ad lit. v. 5 ; Ben. Ed., iii. 186 ; and see cap. xxii. ; 

 cf. Mivart, Genesis of Species, pp. 264, 265. 



