tory or fact. In reference to
Darwin's ideas upon the origin of species, Mr. Huxley said: "That,
notwithstanding the clearness of the style, those who attempt fairly to
digest the book find much of it a sort of intellectual pemmican--a mass of
facts crushed and pounded into shape, rather than held together by the
ordinary medium of a logical bond." The impossibility of a scientific test
is admitted, for vast periods of time in the infinite past are claimed for
the work of natural selection. Countless ages form the basis of the
system, without which it could not have brought about the present order of
things. But an infinite series of life forms upon our earth could not be
possible, for it has been shown, allowing that the heat has passed out of
our earth uniformly, as it does at present, that inside of a comparatively
limited period in the past, it must have been so intensely hot as to have
been capable of melting a mass of rock equal to the bulk of the whole
earth. Yet Darwin has his half developed--imaginary animals strewn along
there in the infinite ages of the past. Men may get around this difficulty
by disregarding the facts of science and of common sense, or by doing as
Tyndall did; that is, by taking up the mechanism of the human body, the
mind itself, emotion, intellect, will and all their phenomena, and
_latentizing_ them in a fire cloud. Tyndall says: "They were once _latent_
in a fiery cloud." Farewell to common sense or Darwinism--which shall it
be? Darwin's idea that all the causes of evolution were placed in a common
progenitor, by a miraculous creation of that common progenitor is in very
poor harmony with his denial of design in nature, and also in poor harmony
with the idea of environments contributing so extensively to the change of
species; for if all the causes were placed in a common progenitor, of
course, they are not to be found in the least degree in environment. If
all was placed in a common progenitor, brought into existence by a
miracle, as Darwin teaches, how is design to be excluded from nature?
Imperfections in nature are urged against design in nature by all the
school of evolutionists. But what kind of imperfection is that which is
involved in the idea of God creating a common progenitor, lying at the
base of Darwin's series of evolution, possessing all the causes of all
effects in nature, without designing those effects? What wonderful
undesigned results!

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