Or we can practically demonstrate the historical reality of a direct
Creation at some time in the past, if we can show that the net results
of all modern science tend to prove that the forces and processes now in
operation can never account for the origin of things; that matter, and
energy, and life, and the various forms of life must all have had an
origin essentially different from anything now going on around us.

This indicates the line of argument adopted in the following pages.

The Evolution theory has been widely discussed and accepted in modern
times. Indeed it has had a fair chance and an open field for several
decades. What is the present situation of the controversy? The friends
of the Bible and of old-fashioned Christianity need to know the real
facts of the present situation.

Every now and then the news despatches report that the great Professor
So-and-so has at last really produced life from the not-living, or has
obtained some absolutely new type of life by some wonderful feat of
breeding. Or some geologist or archæologist has discovered in the earth
the missing link which connects the higher forms of life with the
lower, or which bridges over the gulf between man and the apes. Thus
many people who get their "science" through the daily papers really
believe that these long-looked-for proofs of Evolution have at last been
demonstrated, and hence they receive without question the confident
assertions of the camp followers of science published at space rates in
the Sunday supplements that all intelligent men of to-day have long ago
accepted the Evolution doctrine.

But in spite of the quick dissemination of news and the universal spread
of education, it seems but a slow process for the really important