Evolution : The Quest of Truth 1 8 1 



There is another method of search for God 

 in the creation, which we should consider in 

 passing. Being no longer able to see the 

 special interjection of a divine hand in the 

 making of species, the seeker desires to find 

 him in the variations or mutations from which 

 species arise. This supposes that variation is 

 definite and designed, and that it is the special 

 work of the hand of the Creator. Of course 

 there is no satisfaction in any such makeshift 

 as this, for, as there is no necessary difference 

 between what men call species and what men 

 call varieties, we may as well assume or deny 

 special creation in one as in the other. 



Driven from this position, these persons 

 next fall back upon the origin of life for life 

 certainly must have been specially created. It 

 is true that we do not know whence and how it 

 came. Now, to me, it does not matter whether 

 life was specially created or whether it was first 

 the result of chemical recompounding, or of 

 other so-called " natural" forces. If it is 

 the result of natural forces, then I want to 

 know it, and I should dearly like to see it 



