Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
evolution. He said: “The next 
stage is still more marvelous, still 
more completely beyond all possi¬ 
bility of explanation by matter, 
its laws and forces. It is the in¬ 
troduction of sensation or con¬ 
sciousness, constituting the funda¬ 
mental distinction between the ani¬ 
mal and vegetable kingdoms. Here 
all idea of mere complication of 
structure producing the result is 
out of the question. We feel it to 
be altogether preposterous to as¬ 
sume that at a certain stage of 
complexity of atomic constitution, 
and as a necessary result of that 
complexity alone, an ego should 
start into existence, a thing that 
feels, that is conscious of its own 
existence. Here we have the cer¬ 
tainty that something new has 
arisen, a being whose nascent con¬ 
sciousness has gone on increasing 
in power and definiteness till it has 
