112 THE WOODPECKERS 



And so of the world and the creatures in it. 

 Every evidence we get that they can care for 

 themselves, that they can adapt themselves to 

 new conditions, that they are intelligent and 

 reasonable, capable of improvement in habits or 

 in structure, is so much surer proof that a wise 

 God made them what they are. Evolution 

 for that is the name by which we call these 

 changes does not take God out of the uni- 

 verse but makes the need of Him stronger. 

 The argument from design is immensely 

 strengthened when we consider that we have 

 not only an obedient machine acting according 

 to a few fundamental rules, but one that is in- 

 telligent also and capable of self -modification. 



