methods of physics and chemistry, and even beyond the most plausible
theories of genetics, we can readily explain this remarkable action of
the cells as the result of the will of an ever acting, omniscient,
almighty God. Certainly nothing else is adequate to explain the behavior
of living cells.

In a very similar way we must reason regarding the ultimate units of
matter, call them what we will, electrons, corpuscles, or units of
electricity. If these are mere duplicates of each other, as science now
teaches, they not only indicate by this identity that they are
"manufactured articles," as was long ago pointed out of the atoms and
molecules, but they also indicate with all the force of a demonstration
that nothing but an ever present omniscient Intelligence _could keep
these duplicates from always acting the same_ under similar external
forces. If gold and carbon, iron and oxygen are at bottom composed of
particles that are mere duplicates of each other, as seems to be the
case, how can these elements and the six dozen or more others maintain
their individuality throughout nature as we know they do, even in the
far distant stars, except by the sleepless care of an Intelligence whose
Word is as effective in one part of the universe as in another, and to
whose Word these particles of matter can show no inertia and no
disobedience, because they have no powers or properties except what He
has imparted? This doctrine of the homogeneousness of matter is the
antithesis of materialism. It is consistent only with the doctrine of an
almighty and ever present God, and like many other facts which have been
developed by modern scientific discoveries, it confirms the other primal
doctrine of a literal Creation "_in the beginning_."


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