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9. Logic. 



We have been reversing the order of things, by forgetting that, if 

 a tiny cell or organism has the ability or potentiality of becoming a 

 highly complex animal, it must be much more complex than the later 

 organism into which it is to grow. For, surely the smaller an object 

 may be, which can contain all that it is later to become, the greater in 

 complexity it must be. And, if such a tiny object is so intensely com- 

 plex, it could not have suddenly sprung into existence without an intelli- 

 gence of some kind arranging it. 



10. Physics. 



The student of depth has been driven into out-and-out skepticism 

 of anything being true in science, or has gone over entirely to mysticism, 

 because he cannot overcome the obstacle which the acceptance of the 

 laws of the different laboratory sciences place in the way of his bio- 

 logical findings. For example, physics tells him that no more work 

 can be obtained from a machine than is put into it, and that nothing 

 can rise higher than its source. Then the evolutionist tells him (in 

 contradiction to these laws) that more complex forms come from those 

 less complex. This belies both laws, for intelligence is certainly some- 

 thing higher, and more than non-living matter. And intelligence cannot 

 be explained in terms of either physics or chemistry. 



If it be told the student that the energy of the sun furnishes the 

 energy which can do all these things, and that there is a law known as 

 the conservation of energy, he will read the statement of various eminent 

 physicists who tell him that the sun's heat will gradually become 

 less and less, finally becoming entirely dispersed. Consequently there 

 will not be as much as there once was, and the law is broken. This 

 brings him back to the place from which he started. "How did the 

 energy and the potentiality of a simple organism become complex, and 

 how did the developing intelligence become what it is, unless it got it 

 from something still greater?" 



11. Language and Intelligence. 



If it be proved that plants and animals have arisen in an ever- 

 ascending plane, how account for articulate language and intelligence 

 (true ability at thinking which is then expressed in words) ? Can this 

 psuchus or psychon, or real intellectual part of man, have come from 

 anything less than a still greater intelligence? 



12. Continuity. 



As was shown in the chapter on the history of Biology, the very 

 foundation of science, as now understood, is based on the law of con- 



