almost like the conclusion of a mathematical problem.


III

How are modern intelligent men and women to avoid any longer this
inevitable conclusion of a literal Creation as the method of origin for
our world and the things upon it?

The facts enumerated in the previous pages are not new; it is only the
present grouping and arrangement of them, and the conclusions drawn from
them, that are new. Of all the leading facts enumerated above, only the
last one, the one regarding geology, is any longer a subject of serious
discussion by educated people. And the general facts as stated above
regarding geology have been proved (by the present writer) with such a
wealth of facts and arguments that they also must speedily be
acknowledged by scientists, when the latter take the trouble to study
these facts and arguments. And with geology once adjusted to a system of
real inductive science, instead of being as hitherto under the hypnotic
control of speculative fancies and subjective methods, there is no
longer any room for speculations regarding the origin of our world by
evolutionary processes. It becomes almost a mathematical Q.E.D. _that
things were made in the beginning by methods and processes that are no
longer operative_, so far as science can observe. This means a real
Creation, in the Bible sense of the term, something distinct from the
means by which nature is now being sustained and carried on. Any attempt
to describe the _why_ or the _how_ of this Creation would be useless
speculation; but _this much is science_, and science that is to-day all
the more impressive and conclusive because it has been won by centuries
of conflict with every conceivable opposing prejudice.