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describes it as "purely logical" and "subjective." 

 So again, with a slight limitation, he says : "What 

 may for the moment detain us, however, is a 

 reference to the curiously nearly completely sub- 

 jective character of the evidence for both the 

 theory of descent and natural selection." ' 



Why then this intolerance of others who from 

 the very same scientific facts drew vastly different 

 conclusions? How silly, above all, the attack 

 upon Christianity and the blowing of Jericho 

 trumpets, as if the strongholds of Faith must col- 

 lapse at the din, when in reality no least truth of 

 Christianity has been touched or embarrassed by 

 any of the scientific facts hitherto discovered. Nor 

 is there a shadow of fear or apprehension that 

 any really established fact of science will ever in 

 the slightest compromise the equally undeniable 

 fact of the Divine Revelation. The Church, as 

 in the outset has been stated, welcomes knowledge, 

 science and investigation. She merely insists 

 upon a careful distinction between fact and theory. 

 Facts are unalterable, undeniable, more immov- 

 able than the rock-ribbed mountains; theories 

 change like the clouds that cast their shadows in 

 the valleys. They are often more finely spun than 

 the fleeces of the summer sky. The theories of 

 evolution, especially, have been as manifold and 

 changeable as the colors of an autumn sunset, shot 

 through with a thousand shifting hues that blaze 



5 "Darwinism Today," p. 18. 



