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whole orthodox theory of creation. As 

 we can and must ask how a perfect 

 God could create an imperfect, that is, 

 an evolutionary world, we might also 

 ask, why was man created with the 

 necessity for an evolution in time when 

 he never could develop anything but 

 what God had implanted potentially in 

 his being? Instead of explaining evo- 

 lution this theory only makes it so 

 much the more mysterious. 



Besides this conception, however, the 

 religious intuition has surmised that 

 the connection between God and man 

 is profoundly deeper and more inti- 

 mate. Man does not have an existence 

 separate from God. This intuitive 

 thought, intensified in highly religious 

 souls, has led them to preach, that man 

 possesses a life in God; is part of His own 

 being, is a living member in His perfect 

 organism. If this be true, why, again, 

 must man go through an evolution? 

 Is he not as unchangeable as God Him- 

 self? 



