Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
culminated in the higher animals. 
No verbal explanation—such as the 
statement that life is the result of 
the molecular forces of the proto¬ 
plasm, or that the whole existing 
organic universe from the Ameba 
up to man was latent in the fire 
mist from which the solar system 
was developed—can afford any 
mental satisfaction, or help us in 
any way to a solution of the mys¬ 
tery/ ’ (Wallace, “ Darwinism/ ’ p. 
475.) Of this crisis Professor Lull, 
of Yale, says: “The definite fossil 
record thus established shows us 
that evolution of the great inverte¬ 
brate groups occurred largely be¬ 
fore the close of the Proterozoic, 
hence we may not speak confident¬ 
ly of cause and effect.” (Lull, 
“Evolution of the Earth,” p. 113.) 
It is not even known just when ani¬ 
mal life first appeared, much less 
have we any scientific evidence as 
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