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idea of creation was constantly recurring, and the 

 speaker believed that Professor Plate had not 

 sufficiently insisted upon the fact, that Father 

 Wasmann's reasons for upholding the theory of 

 creation were to some extent logical, and it was 

 from the logical point of view that he himself wished 

 to examine them. 



Father Wasmann maintained that it was im- 

 possible to imagine the creation of the world, and 

 the origin of organic life and of the human race as 

 the result of a kind of natural evolution, because 

 everything was so wonderfully adapted to the pur- 

 pose which it was to fulfil, and was so marvellously 

 highly organised. 



Dr. Plotz cannot quite have followed my 

 reasoning if he sums it up thus. I showed in 

 my second lecture that Creation was the logical 

 hypothesis of an evolution tending to work out 

 some design, but that Creation and Evolution 

 were not antagonistic to one another. 



Dr. Plotz went on to argue that my conception 

 necessitated the existence of a creator, whose in- 

 telligence was so far superior to the world as to 

 render the act of creation possible. Thus ' there 

 is a sort of logical motive for Father Wasmann's 

 assumption that a creator exists. But if we once 

 admit this, we must logically proceed to raise this 

 further question : As the creator is an organism 

 so far superior to the world that the creation of the 



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