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 "shaped" by external forces, whereby there is a denial of any supernatural form, or soul. Functional activities are concluded to be but properties of highly organized and complex molecules, whence there is a negation of anything other than matter, or higher than the material plane. This is the central error of Evolution, which, though pleading agnosticism in regard to supernatural forces, a spiritual world, and a Creator, actually rejects them, and levels all down to the plane of nature.

As to the compromise theory held by some, that there is a God, and Evolution is His method, it may be that such a theory is less hurtful to states of faith, but as a rational or a scientific theory it is confronted by the insurmountable objection that, like Evolution pure and simple, it has no facts to sustain it. If Evolution were in the main scientifically or assuredly demonstrated, such a theory might be held with some degree of plausibility. Yet, if Evolution were true, there would be no need of a Creator. The theory of Evolution is essentially such that it denies and forbids those modifications of it made by thoughtless but well-meaning persons to adapt the theory to certain religious tenets. A theory that derives the universe from a natural basis, the Creator being regarded totally unknown and unknowable,