AGNOSTIC EVOLUTION 153 



It is farther to be observed that this agnostic 

 creed is often held with the mental reservation that 

 nothing must be admitted on any other evidence than 

 that of the senses, and that consequently there are 

 no data for the ascertaining of anything spiritual. 

 This is sometimes put in the offensive form of the 

 statement that science disproves or cannot prove the 

 existence of God, or the spiritual nature and immor 

 tality of man. If by this physical science alone is 

 meant, the statement is as foolish as if I were to 

 say that I cannot prove the existence of God 

 by a sum in addition, or the immortality of man 

 by any proposition in the first book of Euclid. 

 Physical science in one aspect of it has nothing 

 to do with such questions. It can, however, 

 supply facts and principles important in ans.vering 

 them. 



It is unfortunately this reservation, not explicitly 

 expressed in Professor Huxley s creed, which con 

 stitutes the practically important part of the whole 

 matter, and it really amounts to the addition of a 

 third article, to the effect that reason, as informed 

 by natural facts, cannot obtain any demonstration of 

 the existence of God, or of the spiritual nature of 

 man as related to God. 



It is my purpose in the following pages to show 

 that physical and natural science perfectly agree with 

 what Christians accept as Divine revelation in esta 

 blishing the existence and some of the attributes of 



