Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
An organ must be already useful 
before natural selection can take 
hold of it to improve it. It can 
not make it useful, but only more 
useful.” And then he adds: “It 
would seem that many organs must 
have passed through this incipient 
stage, in which their use was pros¬ 
pective.” (“Evolution and Its 
Relation to Religious Thought,” 
pp. 270, 271.) All other theories 
of gradual development are just as 
impotent to account for these or¬ 
gans as is the theory of natural 
selection. Even Wallace says: “It 
is evident that these peculiarities 
had their origin at a very remote 
period of the earth’s history, and 
no theory, however complete, can 
do more than afford a probable con¬ 
jecture as to how they were pro¬ 
duced.” (Wallace, “Darwinism,” 
p. 7.) Furthermore, in considering 
the possibility of the evolution of 
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