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science, but should exercise reason in determining 

 philosophical truth. We should not close our eyes 

 and turn away from scientific investigation because 

 a few scientists are materialists. 



According to Darwin's theory it required a mira- 

 cle to create the four or five first beings, would it 

 not have been just as consistent with the omniscient 

 wisdom of God to have created all according to the 

 narrative given in the Bible? The formation of 

 some new species by the union of those standing in 

 the nearest natural relation to each other is abso- 

 lutely prohibited by the laws of nature which pass 

 the sentence of sterility upon all hybrid off- 

 spring. 



Neither can the theory of natural selection pro- 

 duce new forms, but can only select from the forms 

 already in existence. If new species are created out 

 of the union of old ones, we should expect to find 

 creatures in every stage of progress ; but instead we 

 find an empty space between each of the several 

 orders, and between man and the animal next to 

 him, a distinction which was never changed since 

 creation. 



Forms may be modified by selection, but no well 

 substantiated new forms have ever been produced. 



