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of prayer, I tliink that they are answered in the quotation I gave from 
an eminent clergyman, whose opinion upon the subject is exactly like that 
formed by myself. The same speaker has also said, that I endeavoured to 
show that because Darwinism was injurious to religious thought, I seemed to 
infer that Darwinism is therefore not true, and he quoted geology as an 
instance of being true although it had been denounced as being opposed to 
Scripture. I do not think I am open to the first charge, as I endeavoured to 
show that Darwinism had no foundation, and then, by pretty conclusive 
evidence, to prove that it had been injurious to religious thought. "With 
regard to another speaker’s argument about Geology, I do not see that it 
applies to my own. Geology may be reconciled by some with different 
interpretations of Scripture, — Darwinism never can. Geology may seem to 
some incompatible with the narrative of Moses ; but Darwinism affects 
Religion and the existence of a God of any kind. The facts of Geology are 
true and not irreconcilable with Scripture : Darwinism is not only untrue,— 
but as a theory it is inconsistent and irreconcilable w T ith Scripture ; while 
some of the strongest arguments against it are furnished by Geology itself. 
The Rev. Mr. Row mentioned he had heard that Mr. Darwin was a 
Theist ; but he will grant that even the doctrines of a Theist cannot be 
placed on the same level as those which teach of a Saviour. He added 
that it was highly undesirable to represent every phase of science as opposed 
to a belief in God. Certainly, and most assuredly I agree with him. But if 
an unproved theory is raised by scientific men to a high pillar in the archives 
of science — if we are told that this crude hypothesis is one of the three great 
means by which science has been advanced during the last twenty-five years 
— and if such a crude unproved hypothesis strikes at the root of revelation 
and religion — I am sure he will grant that it is desirable to expose both 
the fallacies of the doctrine and its anti-religious teachings. The same 
speaker seems to think that God may have created the world consistently 
with evolution ; but he has to prove that such a belief is consistent and 
true. 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
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