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and moral nature^ but as that branch of the subject would 
require time to investigate, it must for the present be left 
unnoticed. It only remains, then, to make a summary of the 
reasons why we consider that the doctrine of evolution as 
taught by Professor Haeckel is not worthy of support, and — 
1. The main argument adduced for its proof is unsound. 
If life was not introduced on our planet by God, the Lord 
and Giver of Life,^"" it must have originated by mechanical 
forces. But spontaneous generation, i.e., life as the result 
of mechanical or chemical forces, has never been known to 
occur; therefore, as life did occur, it must have been introduced 
by God. We hold, then, that it is more reasonable and more 
scientific to accept the doctrine of the special creation of life 
by the Great First cause than to accept the hypothesis of 
evolution as taught by Professor Haeckel. 
2. The doctrine of evolution is opposed to human reason. 
Reason demands an adequate cause for every effect. We are 
surrounded on all sides with life, organisms, forces, which 
could not have been the result of mere molecular motion or 
combination. It is, therefore, more in harmony with reason 
and science to believe that all these changes have been the 
result of the power of an Almighty Being, than to attribute 
them to blind unreasoning evolution by natural selection, 
resulting in the survival of the fittest.^^ 
3. We see that in nature there is no such thing as selection 
to produce generic change : all animals produce progeny after 
their kind, and never go beyond their kind in fulfilling the 
law of their being. And so we hold that it is more reason- 
able to believe that they always did this than to believe that 
at some time in the distant past their nature in this respect 
was different from what it is at the present time. 
4. Geology gives little, if any, support to the development 
theory. Species are found in their perfect state. The lowly- 
formed are found side by side with the more complicated 
organisms ; and the links between the simple and the com- 
plex structures are not to be found. In addition to this, the 
testimony of the rocks is in favour of sudden outbursts of 
life at different periods of the world^s history. Now, such 
conditions as these are quite in harmony with the doctrine of 
special creation of typical species of animals by the power 
and wisdom of an intelligent First Cause, the Lord God 
Almighty, who is the author and giver of life. 
5. The physiological condition of man cannot be satisfac- 
torily accounted for, either by evolution or natural selection, 
but can be by the belief in his descent from a pair who were 
made perfect at first by the fiat of an Almighty Being. 
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