Through evolution we see creation in travail-pains for millions of
years to bring forth the varied forms of life as we know them; but
the mystery of the inception of this life, and of the origin of the
laws that have governed its development, remains. What lies back of
it all? Who or what planted the germ of the biological tree, and
predetermined all its branches? What determined one branch to
eventuate in man, another in the dog, the horse, the bird, or the
reptile?

From the finite or human point of view we feel compelled to say some
vaster being or intelligence must have had the thought of all these
things from the beginning or before the beginning.

It is quite impossible for me to believe that fortuitous
variation--variation all around the circle--could have resulted in
the evolution of man. There must have been a predetermined tendency
to variation in certain directions. To introduce chance into the
world is to introduce chaos. No more would the waters of the
interiors of the continents find their way to the sea, were there
not a slant in that direction, than could haphazard variation,
though checked and controlled by natural selection, result in the
production of the race of man. This view may be only the outcome of
our inevitable anthropomorphism which we cannot escape from, no
matter how deep we dive or high we soar.