132 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



still more marvelous properties and powers, such as 

 Invention, imagination, reflective thought, volition, 

 and emotion. These were not potential in the simple 

 organisms, nor in the primeval slime, nor again in the 

 world of protons and electrons. There Is another 

 factor In the situation not taken into account by the 

 elementarlsts of the nineteenth century. And this 

 factor Is organization. 



Tyndall said that In matter he saw the promise 

 and potency of all life. This was a high-sounding 

 pronouncement and Impressed his nineteenth-century 

 hearers. But his saying was not based on any ob- 

 servation of facts. He reasoned simply on a priori 

 grounds that since once there was nothing but matter 

 and now there Is life and action, the former must 

 have contained potentially the latter. But present in 

 the world there was something else than "matter"; 

 there was the fact of organization, and with the or- 

 ganism there emerged new properties and new capaci- 

 ties. 



Thus evolution Is creative.^ Something new Is ever 

 appearing. Living beings are not aggregates of dead 



2 Creative Evolution is a better term than emergent evolution. 

 The reader may be interested in reading or reviewing some recent 

 articles and books by distinguished scientists and philosophers on this 

 subject. Compare: 



William Morton Wheeler. Emergent Evolution and the Develop- 

 ment of Societies. New York. 1928. 



C. Lloyd Morgan. Emergent Evolution. 



H. S. Jennings. "Diverse Doctrines of Evolution," Science, January 

 14, 1927. 



William McDougall, Modern Materialism and Emergent Evolution. 



Robert K. Nabours. "A Third Alternative: Emergent Evolution." 

 The Scientific Monthly. November, 1930. 



Roy Wood Sellars. The Principles and Problems of Philosophy. 

 Chap. XXIV. 



S. Alexander. Space Time and Deity. 



C. D. Broad. Mind and Its Place in Nature. Chaps. II and XIV. 



Compare also the writings of R. S. Lillie, G. H. Parker, C. J. Her- 

 rick, W. E. Ritter, and H. F. Osborn. 



