The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

LIFE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT. 135thought, than with ordinary notions of precedingtimes; while to the author whosename is now associated with it all over thescientific world, it is a more striking testimonyof the marvels of creative power," thannotions previously current, which regarded itas historically true that every existing varietyof animal was launched into being by a distinctcreative act. Whatever may be the ultimateview of the history of life on the earth,based on purely scientific data,-and we arestill a far way removed from what may beregarded as scientific evidence fox such aview,-the fewer the primordial forms towhich the multiplicity of existing speciescall be traced, the greater is the marvelwhich science presents, and the more convincingbecomes the intellectual necessity bywhich we travel back to a Supernatural Intelligenceas the source of all. On the otherhand, the slow process by which scientificresearch tends to make out the natural Iiistoryof living organisms far removed fromeach other in the scale of being, tracingmany groups to a common parentage, andassigning their appearance in the world to,* Oviyin of Species, p. 577.