216 THE NEANDERTHAL SKULL. 



god, while they argue that this power 

 having brought a fortuitous concourse of 

 atoms together, men, together with every- 

 thing else in the universe, have been 

 gradually evolved from it. And it is 

 evident that all these three theories vir- 

 tually reject the simple and majestic 

 statement of Scripture "And God said, 

 Let us make man in our image, after 



our likeness So God created man in 



His own image, in the image of God 

 created He him ; male and female created 

 He them " (Gen. i. 26, 27). 



To speak of man having been' evolved 

 from a tadpole, instead of being a separate 

 act of creative power by an all-wise and 

 Omnipotent Being, is not necessarily 

 infidel, but it is certainly as opposed to 

 God's written word, as it is to His works. 

 Happy would it be if all Evolutionists 

 could see the force of what Dr. M'Cosh 

 has said in his Method of the Divine Govern- 

 ment " Science has a foundation, and so 

 has religion. Let them unite their founda- 

 tions, and the basis will be broader, and 



