2 Evolution and Religion 



of darkness and cold. Whence they came we cannot 

 dogmatically say. 



Life 



"And God said: Let the waters swarm with swarms 

 of living creatures and let jowl fly above the earth on the 

 face of the expanse of the heaven." — Here, too, the most 

 pronounced, advanced evolutionist recognizes the truth 

 of simple statement. The normal conditions of space 

 are not only darkness and cold, but apparently death. 

 Life projected into the purely negative condition of 

 non-life is as positive a phenomenon as light projected 

 into darkness, or heat into cold. Whence that life 

 came, again we cannot absolutely say. 



Man 



"And God said: Let us make man in our image, after 

 our likeness : and let them have dominion over the fish of 

 the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle 

 and over all the earth." — This would appear to be an 

 admirably simple and compact statement of the crown- 

 ing positive phenomenon of creation, when interpreted 

 in its true evolutionary sense of a gradual development. 

 Man, who is to have dominion over all the earth, 

 emerges first upon the scene. He is to have dominion, 

 not only over all the other forms of animal life, but 

 over the earth itself, with its hidden wealth, its as yet 

 unfolded mysterious forces, which are to be subjugated 

 to his will and become his obedient servants. He is to 

 discover and control the positive phenomena of light, 



