Decadence of Darwinism 61 It is logical to assume, until disproved, that these three kinds of life touch each other, but never merge. They as sociate as intimately as air and light, but are as far from passing from plants to brutes and from brutes to men as from not-being to being. “By faith we understand the ages to be set in order by the saying of God, in regard to the things seen not having come out of the things manifest” (Heb. 11:3). He who would overthrow Biblical Christianity expects to take the initiative. He recognizes that there is always a presumption in favor of an existing institution; and has always been swift to open the battle. Professor Huxley, in his article on evolution, in the ninth edition of the Britannica, has ably brought together the argu ments for Darwinism; and we will follow his order. GROWTH Given a nucleated cell, and Darwinists have watched the process of generation from its beginning to birth, “with the best optical instruments”. There have been two theories. The first theory is that nothing new is produced in the living world; the germs from which all organisms have developed have contained in miniature, and passed on down through successive generations, all the essential organs of adults. To get anything out of anything it must first be in it. This is archaic. The second theory is that evolution is progressive; it results from something innate in things, dynamic and pan theistic. This is up to date. All that the Darwinists, “with the best optical instru ments , have actually seen is growth; but they have inferred a whole pantheon. Natural selection is the supreme demiurge; sexual selection and variation are subordinates. A billion years ago there was a God, but He immediately disappeared. It was necessary to have Him then, to bridge the gulf be tween nothing and something. Having discovered growth,
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