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science.’’ Miracles are equally well explained in the 
same way. 
The believer in the Bible will ask: ‘‘ But does not this 
conflict with the story of creation in Genesis? If Gen- 
esis be true, is it possible that present species of animals 
are descended from other species, and back through 
-many steps to the first stages of life upon our globe?’ 
But wherein is the contradiction? Genesis says only 
that God made, or created, the various creatures named. 
As to how He did it, there is absolute silence, hence con- 
tradiction is impossible. 
The chief interest most persons have in evolution per- 
tains to man’s origin. As to his higher part, the soul, 
few will be found to deny that it came direct from God. 
The doubt is as to his body. Did God form it directly 
from the ground and atmosphere, moulding the mixture 
to his purpose, and then give it life? Or did He take, 
in embryo, or after birth, some animal nearest to his de- 
sign, and enlarge its form, shorten the length of its arms, 
change its hand-like feet till fitted for man’s upright po- 
sition, and enlarge the capacity of the skull to fit it for 
the large brain which was to be the facile instrument of 
the soul, the go-between of the soul and the body? 
Whichever really was the mode of man’s creation, there 
can be, I think, no doubt that the latter is most in har- 
mony with Christ’s methods when exercising His power 
in the miracles. And, as for the question of dignity, 
surely matter which under the divine hand had been pre- 
pared and refined in all the infinitely delicate machinery 
of a living body, though that of a brute, was, to say the 
least, as worthy of manas that which had never since its 
creation received the divine touch, but had lain, raw and 
crude, beneath the feet of man’s predecessors. 
Then there is the creation of Eve. God undoubtedly 
might have made her as he did Adam. But in accord- 
ance with the law that runs through the miracles, it 
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