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the highest form, was the result. Others believe that 
there is such an essential difference between plants and 
animals that the latter could not have come from the 
former, that there must be a new start on the animal 
side of life. Therefore they claim that when the evo- 
lutionary development of matter reached a certain stage, 
God appeared on the scene and endowed certain forms 
with the principle of animal life, in its lowest elements. 
These lowest forms of animal life then entered upon a 
series of evolutionary growth, each-lower form evolving 
one a little more complex, each series gaining the use of 
and developing organs which existed essentially in the 
lower form but were small, imperfect, and useless, 
because not needed. Thus the hand and arm in man are 
structurally or essentially the same as the leg of the 
brute, the wing of the bird, the flipper of the whale, and 
the fin of the fish; and the endeavor to adapt itself to 
the water caused the bird to develop a fin, as by a similar 
process the fore-leg of brutes developed into the human 
arm and hand. 
For our present consideration, we need not distinguish 
between atheistic and theistic evolution, as the latter is 
subject to the fundamental objections urged against 
evolution in general, and is, like atheistic evolution, with- 
out a single fact to support it and in direct contradiction 
of all that is known of the laws in operation now, and 
as far back as knowledge penetrates. Moreover, so- 
called “theistic” evolution is universally approved by 
infidels and skeptics and is used by them as a favorite 
means of assault on revealed Truth. 
Historical Review. 
While in our own day the names of certain English 
and German scientists (Darwin, Spencer, Huxley, Tyn- 
dall, Romanes, Buechner, Vogt, Haeckel) are inseparably 
