The most prominent defect in Evolution is that it does not go deep enough. It is too superficial. It purports to give a history of outward effects, but openly avows that it cannot explain their inner causes. And so far as the causes are approached, the explanation is ridiculously inadequate to the effect, involving even a greater mystery than the cause itself. For it is easier to conceive of the governing intelligence, order, power, truth, love, and righteousness as existing in a personal God who creates from Himself, than it is to imagine these wonderful things existing in the "primeval units," which hypothesis assumes the very thing to be proved. That society with its marvelous developments, scientific, civil, and spiritual, should have started by the "fortuitous concourse of atoms," is more strange than the creation which it cannot explain. And when we come to the application of the principles of
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