can in no degree be reconciled with one that gives it a spiritual origin in deriving it from the Creator.
Evolutionists nowadays do not openly deny the existence of a Creator. It has become their custom to say that they do not know, and so do not deny or affirm. But we should not be misled by this apparent frankness, for they proceed to reason and to build up a theory the same as though they avowedly denied His existence. That there is actual rejection of a Creator, is clearly evident from the former quotations and the conclusion drawn from them, namely, that "We must infer that a plant or animal of any species is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way. * * * * Groups of units taken from an organism (providing they are of a certain bulk and not much differentiated into special structures) have this power of rearranging themselves; and we are thus compelled to recognize the tendency to assume the specific form, as inherent in all parts of the organism."[1] If in the atoms of salt there dwells the intrinsic
- ↑ Vol. I. Principles of Biology, p. 181.
