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power of making solid bodies travel with immense velocity Use 
over the lightest known kind of matter ; and that eyes would ° r f T 9 
give a new sense altogether, and therefore quite inconceivable wane * 
beforehand except by a Creator. 
Yet one of the fundamental maxims of all the Evolutionists 
is, that organs do not grow and improve, but decay, when 
there is nothing for them to do. Mr. Eomanes says, in 
Mental Evolution, p. 89, “ blind fishes which live in the dark 
have lost their eyes from disuse”; yet other fishes, while 
blind, grew eyes spontaneously ! If light makes eyes, how 
does it go to work ? Organs only grow and improve by 
“ natural ” or “ sexual selection ” ; which means preference 
for the useful over the useless, or the beautiful over 
the ugly, or the strong over the weak. But what was the 
use, or beauty, or strength, of a rudimentary feather — or 
a rudimentary anything ? On this point their theory is 
suicidal ; for if rudimentary organs could begin before they 
were of any use, or if rudimentary creatures could start them 
with a view to future use ages afterwards, that is ipso facto 
design of a very high order. Evolutionists constantly talk of 
animals and plants doing this and that, and growing all 
sorts of organs to produce such and such effects. If 
they are challenged to say what they mean, they answer 
that they only mean it figuratively. But their way is 
to use it without any explanation, and to get it care- 
lessly accepted as common language of science, and so 
people are dexterously led to forget that, if it means 
anything, it means that all these things have been carefully 
designed. If that fallacy is pointed out, they say we ought 
to know, without continual repetition, that “ natural selec- 
tion” does it all. So you have only to make out that some 
contrivance will be wanted some day, either for the benefit 
of an animal or plant itself, or for some other, as horses are 
for men, and then they are sure to invent it and to dev elope 
it for themselves ; and all this in the face of another part of 
the Evolution theory, that unused organs die out, and are not 
“naturally selected” to be continued and improved. 
Another thing which the Evolutionists have been challenged 
to account for without creative design is the beauty of nature. 
All that they have ever been able to invent a plausible theory 
for is the improvement of the colours of some flowers by 
insects, and of animals by their own sense of beauty in sexual 
selection, which is assumed to agree with our sense of 
beauty. Considering what an enormous quantity of the 
face of nature these two hypotheses leave uncovered, it is 
less 
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