Questions Evolution Does Not Answer 
present time utterly unable to give 
an adequate explanation of the 
fundamental life processes in terms 
of physics and chemistry. Whether 
we shall ever be able to do so is 
unprofitable to speculate about, 
though certainly the twentieth cen¬ 
tury finds relatively few representa¬ 
tive scientists who really expect a 
scientific explanation of life ever 
to be attained, or who expect that 
protoplasm will ever be artificially 
synthesized.’’ (Lull, “Evolution 
of the Earth,” p. 95.) 
In answering the question, “Is 
life upon the earth something 
new?” Henry Fairfield Osborn 
says: “The more modern scientific 
opinion is that life arose from a 
recombination of forces pre-exist¬ 
ing in the cosmos.” He adds: “We 
may express as our own opinion, 
based upon the application of uni- 
formitarian evolutionary principles, 
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