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Scriptures. The comparison draws from Col. 

 Turton the following striking remarks : 



The points of agreement between Genesis and science are far 

 too many and far too unlikely to be due to accident. They are 

 far too many: for the chances against even eight events being 

 put down in their correct order by guesswork is 40,319 to one. 

 And they are far too unlikely: for what could have induced an 

 ignorant man (i.e., ignorant of modern science) to say that 

 light came before the sun, or that the earth once existed without 

 any dry land." 



Finally, we now arrive at the detailed descrip- 

 tion of the creation of man. It follows in the last 

 place ; precisely again where science demands that 

 it should be placed: 



And God created man to his own image: to the 

 image of God he created him: male and female he 

 created them. 



This image of God is to be found in the rational 

 soul of man whereby he is essentially distinguished 

 from all the other animal creation. The body of 

 man was made from preexisting matter, whether 

 by evolution or not we shall consider in the fol- 

 lowing chapters. The soul called for a new 

 creative act. Between the thoughts of man and 

 purely physical or chemical reaction, between the 

 intelligence of man and the mere instinct of the 

 brute animal, there is a chasm which no evolution 

 can bridge. As the existence of matter and the 

 laws that govern it were impossible without a first 

 cause outside of nature, a supreme intelligence, 



0p. cit., p. 184. 



