24 AN OUTLINE OF THE THEORY. 
The Origin of Life. 
When asked about the origin of life on earth, the 
evolutionists generally reply that this is not a question for 
science but for philosophy to answer. However, the 
question comes with such insistent force that the biologist 
finds himself constrained to offer some explanation of 
the origin of the simplest plant and animal life after the 
globe had, according to the hypothesis, sufficiently cooled 
to present areas in which life might arise. Necessarily, 
the assumption must be that life was generated out of 
lifeless matter. Huxley says: “If the hypothesis of evo- 
lution be true, living matter must have arisen from not- 
living matter, for by the hypothesis, the condition of the 
globe was at one time such that living matter could not 
have existed on it, life being entirely incompatible with 
a gaseous state.” (The earth having been a ball of gases 
at the time.) Tyndall is a little more specific; he says 
that the combination of electrical and chemical forces 
acting on the primal ooze caused germs of life to origi- 
nate in small bubble-like forms, (vesicles). His words 
are: “The first step in the creation of life upon this planet 
was a chemico-electric operation by which simple germinal 
vesicles were produced.” The vesicles consisted of pro- 
toplasm, the simple substance (white-of-egg) which ex- 
ists in the cells of animal and vegetable tissues, and which 
is composed of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and 
traces of other elements. From this original protoplasm 
the great variety of living things has been developed. 
The Bearing of Evolution on Christianity. 
It is evident that the evolutionary theory not only con- 
tradicts the Bible story of creation but, if true, deprives 
Christianity of every claim of being the true religion. If 
all things have come into being through the action of 
