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tion] as certain a fact as if it were objectively proved, for 

 without it there is no other possible hypothesis than that of 

 spontaneous generation of all species, even of the higher 

 orders, and that of their creation by some Divine power. 1 



Spontaneous generation cannot be scientifically 

 accepted, as we fully agree with him. There con- 

 sequently remains but the alternative of material- 

 istic evolution or Creation. Because he will not 

 accept the latter, he is driven to admit the former, 

 not merely without proof, as he confessed, but 

 against the testimony of reason itself. This is a 

 point we shall later conclusively show. But what 

 are we to think of a school of scientists who allow 

 themselves to be blindly swayed by convictions 

 which are in no way based upon physical science, 

 but upon atheistic philosophy alone? For in 

 his confession M. Yves Delage implicates the 

 whole school of materialistic evolutionists those, 

 that is, who assert evolution without God to be a 

 certainty, while at the same time they are obliged 

 to admit that their assertion lies entirely beyond 

 the realm of proof, that in other words, it is 

 merely a subterfuge to escape the inevitable fact 

 of a Creator God. Says M. Yves Delage : 



I am however absolutely convinced that a man supports or 

 does not support transformism [again understood as materialis- 

 tic evolution], not for reasons taken from natural history, but 

 because of his philosophical views. If there were any other 



1 La Structure du Protoplasma et let Theories sur VHeri- 

 dite, p. 184. See Cardinal Mercier, "The Origins of Contem- 

 porary Psychology," pp. 316-319. Professor Kellogg, it may be 

 noted, follows the same line of argument. 



