146 Outlook to Nature 



working evolutionist has his own conception 

 of the methods, which only proves that he 

 sees with his own eyes and thinks with his 

 own head, and that his only goal is to find a 

 true explanation. 



Our antagonist cites theories that have been 

 abandoned or modified as proofs of deca- 

 dence of belief in evolution : but in fact 

 they are the very proofs of its vitality ; they 

 are so many stepping-stones in the search for 

 truth. The evolutionist has no age-long 

 dogma. Persons do not seem to realize 

 that nowhere is there so great discussion of 

 theories attempting to explain evolution as 

 amongst evolutionists themselves : but there 

 is little antagonism to the hypothesis that 

 evolution is a method of creation. 



The antagonist further evidences his lack 

 of conception of what evolution really is by 

 an entire misapprehension of the significance 

 of some of the facts that he cites. I choose 

 the following, from among other statements, 

 merely as an illustration of a method of dis- 

 proof, or evidence of" collapse": 



