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scientific world. It is in fact no exaggeration to 

 say that science was made the breeding ground 

 of the worst and most debasing, as well as the 

 most disastrous of modern superstitions : material- 

 istic evolution. 



Absurd as is the theory of blind chance, Mon- 

 ism, identifying God with the material universe, 

 has rightly been defined as merely "a poor med- 

 ley of irreconcilable and inexplicable contradic- 

 tions." Conceived as the most perfect being, its 

 god must develop with the world and depends 

 for his existence, as Wasmann well remarked, on 

 the existence of every midge and fly in which he 

 continues his course of evolution. "To have cre- 

 ated such a god is the achievement of modern 

 lack of thought and not of modern science. On 

 the contrary the recognition of a personal God, 

 who in virtue of the fulness of His own being 

 created the world out of nothing, is still demanded 

 by sound human understanding, and is therefore 

 a true postulate of science." How this doctrine 

 can be retained with all sane theories of Evolu- 

 tion shall be made plain in the following chap- 

 ters. 



