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CHARLES B. WARRING, M.A. ; PH.D., ON 



What method did the Creator employ to bring into existence 

 this new species ? That he should have ignored all that he 

 had thus far done and gone back to unorganised earth, air and 

 water, is to me unthinkable : not that He lacked power, but 

 that the All- wise should not have availed Himself of the forms 

 then living, and which needed so little done compared with the 

 de novo method, to change them into new species. 



The following seems to me to have been what actually occurred, 

 taking one species as typical of all. When this was approaching 

 very close to the destined time of its extinction, the Creator may 

 be supposed to have caused an ovum to develop into a creature 

 resembling in generic traits its predecessors, but making such 

 changes as differentiated the species which is next found. To 

 borrow a suggestion from Huxley, it was as if in a world 

 inhabited only by hyenas, dogs were born to them, and the 

 hyenas ceased. If this occurred simultaneously in a sufficient 

 number of instances, the extermination and origination would 

 be world-wide. 



To sum it all in briefest possible form, as it appears to me, 

 the disappearance of species was due to natural law alone in 

 the effects of the betterment of the air, water and soil, while 

 the appearing of new species was due also to natural law, plus 

 the supernatural at the initial point of the new species. 



This opens a new theme, one, as it seems to me, of great 

 interest. It would be out of place for me to pursue it now. If 

 any one desires to look into it from the standpoint of the 

 writer, I would refer him to my article in the October number 

 of the Bibliotheca Sacra of 1903, entitled Miracle, Law and 

 Evolution, a copy of which I did myself the pleasure of sending 

 not very long ago to the Institute. 



The thesis there maintained is as follows : God in all His 

 work, whether classed as Miracle, Law, Evolution, Inspiration 

 or Redemption, employed natural means, or, if you please, 

 natural laws to their limit, and then, by His power, did the 

 needed thing, after which the supernatural ceased and natural 

 laws resumed their sole action. 



The origination of new species is one of the many applications 

 of this principle. 



