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the extremely complex nature of physical condi- 

 tions which must precede life, and which are well 

 adapted to the existence of countless forms of living 

 beings, and to the gratification of the innumerable 

 desires of an intelligent, moral being, such as man, 

 could not have been produced by chance nor by an 

 evolution destitute of a controlling Intelligence. The 

 argument in favor of design, I think, might safely 

 rest on this branch of the evidence. 



I will now consider the evidence of design as seen 

 in the existence of man under present conditions. 

 The doctrine of evolution is not opposed to the idea 

 of design, unless evolution is atheistic — a thing which 

 most evolutionists do not claim. 



The same intelligence would be required to make a 

 machine in a year that would be necessary to con- 

 struct it in a day. The length of time occupied in 

 creation cannot affect the answer to the question of 

 design, one way or the other. 



That the body of man is composed of matter there 

 can be no dispute. That man would be just as noble 

 if evolved from a gorilla as if created directly from 

 inorganic matter, is also true. 



The question as to how long it took to make man 

 from inorganic matter — whether one minute or a hun- 

 dred million years — would not seem to be a matter of 

 great importance, and yet this question, I think, 

 involves the essential difference between those who 

 believe in creation by fiat and by evolution. 



To lift a hundred pounds a thousand feet high in 

 a vertical line requires the same amount and kind of 

 force as to lift it a thousand feet high by rolling it 

 up a long inclined plane. 



If it would require intelligence to construct a full- 

 grown living man in an hour from earth, water and 



