134 WHAT IS DARWINISM? 



whom the present generation is more indebted 

 than to any other for all that is known of geol- 

 ogy in its advanced stage, teaches that species 

 have a real existence in nature, and that each 

 was endowed at the time of its creation with 

 the attributes and organization by which it is 

 now distinguished." The change on the part 

 of this eminent geologist, it is to be observed, 

 is a mere change of opinion. There was no 

 change of the facts of geology between the 

 publication of the eighth and of the tenth edi- 

 tion of his work, neither was there any change 

 in his knowledge of those facts. All the facts 

 relied upon by evolutionists, have long been 

 familiar to scientific men. The whole change 

 is a subjective one. One year the veteran 

 geologist thinks the facts teach one thing, 

 another year he thinks they teach another. 

 It is now the fact, and it is feared it will con- 

 tinue to be a fact, that scientific men give 

 the name of science to their explanations as 

 well as to the facts. Nay, they are often, and 

 naturally, more zealous for their explanations 

 than they are for the facts. The facts are 

 God's, the explanations are their own. 



The third cause of the alienation between 

 religion and science, is the bearing of scientific 



