288 ORGANIC EVOLUTION CONSIDERED 



reaches within the veil, with aspirations as high as 

 the heavens, with a faith that must ever outrun 

 knowledge, and with a Christ-like love. 



If we knew that this man was made from inorganic 

 matter in a day, could there be any doubt of design 

 by the Creator? If the power that made him pro- 

 longed the miracle through a million years, could 

 this fact decrease the evidence of design? Is it pos- 

 sible that time alone may become a substitute for 

 intelligence? If not, then the evidence of design is 

 complete. 



But the objector may claim that the creation of 

 man in a day from inorganic matter would be a mir- 

 acle, which implies the existence of a designing Intel- 

 ligence, and that, on the other hand, the evolution of 

 man in a million years requires the action of second- 

 ary agencies alone. To this I reply that the creation 

 of man in a short time does not exclude the use of 

 secondary agencies, nor does his creation in a long 

 period exclude the action of the primary Cause. 



We cannot know whether the creation of living 

 beings was by means of secondary agencies or not, 

 nor can we know the length of time occupied in the 

 creation of any organism. Whether I do a given 

 work without tools or with them cannot exclude my 

 design in doing the work. Whether the Creator of 

 man employed secondary agencies or not cannot affect 

 the necessity of design. 



There stands a magnificent temple composed of a, 

 million stones. If the architect built it in a day, it 

 shows design. If he set in motion machinery which 

 prepared and put in place one stone a year for a 

 million years, the evidence of design would seem 

 even more wonderful. And so it is true, I think, 

 that the questions as to the length of time and as to 



