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CHAPTER ELEVEN. 
Evidence of Design. 
Compare all that has been said by scientists them- 
selves about the evolutionary theory, and what remains? 
This, only, that some time, we do not know when, 
life arose, and some how, we do not know by what laws, 
one form evolved from another, until we and the world 
about us have become what we are now. Now, the fact 
that no laws have so far been discovered by scientists 
to account for this presumed development of all things 
by inherent forces, is very significant and the conclusions 
which logically follow from it deserve our attention. 
Since Darwin’s solution, Natural Selection, was discarded, 
twenty or thirty years ago, many other solutions have 
been propounded, but none has received the assent of 
even a respectable group of scientists, let alone by all. 
These solutions,—such as the theories of de Vries and 
Mendel, are frankly no more than guesses based on cer- 
tain observation in plant life and insect life and their 
originators by no means assert that they have found a 
law by which the universe can be accounted for. But if 
there is no universal law, there is only chance. Hence 
it is clear that what we are asked to believe is that ancient 
Greek speculation was after all not far from the truth, 
that through a fortuitous (accidental) concourse of 
atoms the world came into being, and that by chance 
combinations of elements the great variety of living 
things arose. 
