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form has been modified into clearly differenced 

 structures he has failed to show. His one continuous 

 process is not more comprehensible or more congruous 

 with well established truths than special creations. 

 Over against his one process, continuous, uniform, we 

 place the endless variety of nature. The evolutionist 

 professes to begin with uniformity and end with 

 variety ; the creationist sees variety everywhere at 

 the beginning as well as at the end of the cosmic 

 record. The evolutionist postulates an unknown uni- 

 formity that he may evolve known variety: the 

 creationist ascribing to the great First Cause an 

 infinite wealth of wisdom an inexhaustible fulness of 

 life, feels it to be more in consonance with his belief 

 to recognize, from the outset, in the works of God an 

 unbounded plenitude of power, conditioned in its 

 endlessly varied activity by wisdom, justice, goodness. 

 He can ill brook such limitation of the Absolute 

 Cause as is set up by the evolutionist, who will have 

 the Author of all things eternally occupied with the 

 task of working out an infinitely complicated problem 

 in mathematical physics. 



The doctrine of creation, applied to account for the 

 origin of the multitudinous varieties of living things, 

 does not entail the necessity of supposing that differen- 

 tiated species are to be held as having a clearly-defined 

 beginning separate from all antecedent forms of life 

 a first pair rising into view without kinship with any 

 former living thing, a wholly separate root from which 



