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until the animal again comes to the surface of the water. So 
long, therefore, as there is any oxygenated blood in the 
reservoir, so long can the creature remain submerged. 
We ask the evolutionist to say how Natural Selection 
alone provided for the increase of blood in the first instance, 
and then, when that increase took place, how the special 
arteries and veins, which should hold it, were made and 
located ? And we should like to know what the ancestors of 
the present whales did, when, as yet, the arrangements were in 
their incipient state. 
We hold that it is much more reasonable to believe that an 
intelligent being planned the whole structure at the beginning, 
and arranged the means to achieve the ends in view — the 
comfort and the protection of the creature. We speak as 
unto wise men ; judge ye what we say.^^ 
In the next place, let us consider the case of the eye as an 
organ of sight. According to the doctrine of Evolution, 
there was a time in the history of the world when all animals 
were eyeless, and that the first eyes were produced by * ^ natural 
selection.^^ Now, what does this imply? Nothing less than 
this. At some time in the far distant past, these sightless 
creatures became conscious — if one may use such a word — of 
the existence of light, and were moved by a desire to, 
possess an organ which would enable them to profit by the 
light. This desire then led to the formation of a nervous 
centre sensitive to light, and by use this primitive eye- 
spot, became gradually more and more developed, until, 
at last, the perfect eye, as now possessed by birds and 
mammals, was the result. And all this, too, without the aid 
of any intelligence or power other than that which was 
inherent in the unreasoning lump of jelly and its successors. 
Mr. Darwin himself, with his accustomed fairness, admits 
the difficulty of reconciling the hypothesis with reason. ^^To 
suppose,^^ he says, that the eye with all its inimitable con- 
trivances for adjusting the focus to difierent distances, for 
admitting diflPerent amounts of light, and for the correction 
of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed 
by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the 
highest degree .^^ — Origin of Species, p. 146. But how does 
Mr. Darwin get over the difficulty ? By demanding that 
our reason should conquer our imagination.^^ 
Well, let it be so ! Reason says, that a complicated instru- 
ment which is constructed on true scientific principles, and 
which perfectly accomplishes the purposes for which it was 
evidently made, must have been designed by an intelligent 
being, and one who must have had the end in view at the 
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