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 Though the Creationist says that God did not create out of nothing, but rather out of unorganized matter, yet whence came that unorganized matter and what the laws are by which that creation took place remain unexplained.

The Creationist having failed to throw a satisfactory light upon this phase of the question, or having substituted arbitrary fiat for law, it is not surprising to see this theory being abandoned so generally in an age of freedom of thought and thirst for knowledge.

The theory of Evolution qualified by the supposition of the preëxistence of a primal germ, being practicably inconceivable and the legitimate conclusions impossible, imposed greater difficulties than Evolution pure and simple, without offering any satisfactory explanation. Consequently it is not without some visible reason that to-day we see Evolution in its unqualified form, which holds that all species are derived from a common source through modification in descent, displacing all accommodations of the theory.

The doctrine that God from Himself as a progenitor evolved all forms of life from a primal form, using successively the next lower form as a matrix from which the next higher was brought forth, is not incompatible with Christianity,