38 EVOLUTION MADE PLAIN 
week’s work, either of hand or tongue, that 
he would require a rest? 
There is not the slightest evidence that God 
ever did an hour’s work save through natural 
law. 
Between the scientists and the literal in 
terpreters of the Bible the war has been long 
and fierce, and has raged on many a battle 
front; but so far, the scientists have won in 
every contest. There was once a battle be¬ 
tween the scientists and those who believed 
the earth to be flat—for did not John, the 
Revelator, see four angels standing on the 
four corners of the earth? The literalists were 
defeated. There was once a contest between 
the astronomers and those who believed the 
sun and moon revolved around the earth— 
“And he said in the sight of all Israel, Sun, 
stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, 
in the valley of Ajelon ... So the sun 
stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted 
not to go down about a whole day” (Joshua, 
10:12, 13). The literalists were defeated. 
There was one a clash between the geologists 
and those who believed the world to have been 
created in six twenty-four-hour days. Again 
the literalists were defeated. There is a com¬ 
bat between those who hold the view that all 
organisms including man were created by nat¬ 
ural laws—operating just as they do today— 
and those who hold to either the potter or 
the vocal process of creation. The latter— 
well, they occupy the same position as those 
did who said the earth is flat, and that is was 
made between the blink o’ morn on that great 
