Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
being in relation to its organic and 
inorganic conditions of life.” 
(“Origin of Species,” p. 77.) He 
thus endows this child of his fancy, 
which he calls “Natural Selection,” 
with little short of omnipresence, 
omniscience and omnipotence, so 
far as the organic world is con¬ 
cerned. 
Many difficulties at once suggest 
themselves. Darwin himself ad¬ 
mitted: “That many and serious 
objections may be advanced against 
the theory of descent with modifi¬ 
cation, I do not deny.” 
1. No attempt whatever is made 
to account for the cause or causes 
of these slight differences that are 
constantly manifesting themselves. 
Often they are attributed to chance. 
Again, it is said that they are the 
result of the operation of unknown 
laws. The point to bear in mind 
is that natural selection is power- 
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