The Unity of the Truth in Christianity and Evolution (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "Father, thy hand Hath reared these venerable columns, Thou Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose All these fair ranks of trees. They in thy snn Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, And shot toward heaven."6 Nothing is uncaused; and God is the Cause of all causes. It is therefore no more blasphemous atheism than it is unscientific folly to deny that "God formed man." Whatever difference there may be supposed to exist between Scripture and Evolution, it certainly is not upon this point. And this is fully and freely acknowledged by nearly all intelligent and fair-minded theologians and evolutionists alike. Says Dr. Samuel Harris, for instance, of the origin of man according to the process of Evolution, ' The fact that it was a process which occupied time however long, and proceeded according to the laws and by means of the energies of an al- ready existing nature, does not make it the Jess a work of God." ' And the late Dr. Diman eclared that "To hold that Mr. Darwin's theory affects in any way the proof of the existence of a Supreme Being, is an absurd misconception." 8 Indeed, Mr. Darwin himself, to say nothing of men like Mivart and Wallace,repeatedly speaks of the direct agency of "the Creator'' in the development of man as of the rest of the universe; while the ablest representative of Evolution in this country, Prof. John Fiske, insists on the same as strenuously as the most orthodox theologian could, and declares that, while '' Darwinism may convince us that the existence of highly complicated organisms is the result of an infinitely diversified aggregate of circumstances so minute as severally to seem trivial or accidental; yet the consistent theist will always occupy an impregnable position in...