that will apply to each of the various theories that are held.
Theories differ vastly in the extent of their application, as held by
their various advocates, resulting in great confusion of terms:--

1. The atheists believe that there is no God. Hence, matter was not
created, but was eternal, or came by chance. Only a mere handful of
the whole human race have ever yet believed such an untenable
doctrine. The existence of a Creator, is doubted or denied by extreme
atheistic evolutionists, who would dethrone God, "exalt the monkey,
and degrade man."

2. The first of modern scientific men to adopt the theory that all
plants and animals, including man, are developed from certain original
simple germs, was Lamarck, a French naturalist, in 1809. He conceded
that God created matter,--nothing more. He believed in spontaneous
generation, which scientific investigation has utterly disproved.

3. Darwin goes a step further and concedes there may have been a
Creator of matter, and of one, or at most, a few germs, from which all
vegetation and all animals came by evolution,--all orders, classes,
families, genera, species, and varieties. He differs from Lamarck, by
allowing the creation of one germ, possibly a few more. He says in his
"Origin of Species," "I believe that animals are descended from at
most only four or five progenitors; and plants from an equal or lesser
number.... Analogy would lead me one step further, namely, to the
belief that all animals and plants are descended from one
prototype.... All the organic beings, which have ever lived on the
earth, may be descended from some _one_ primordial form." Darwin,
because of his great scholarship, fairness, and candor, won for his
theory more favor than it inherently deserves. Darwin taught that,