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Excerpt from The Theological Educator
Evolution the working hypothesis of scientific men - Evolution as a dogmatic faith - Truth of evolution - The primitive nebulosity - Spectrum analysis - Star systems - Professor Karl Pearson on lifeless chaotic mass - Chaos unthinkable - Homogeneousness - Evolution must commence somewhere - Its commencement a relative unity.
Evolution is the working hypothesis of most scientific men at the present time. In no branch of science is it without influence, and in the sciences which deal with life it is dominant. We cannot escape from it. Its technical phrases have become parts of current common speech; and such words as "natural selection," the "struggle for existence," and "the survival of the fittest" are on the lips of every one. It does not matter to what sphere of human work we turn, for in all alike we meet with the same mental atmosphere. Are we students of physics or chemistry, we have no sooner mastered the elements of the science than we are plunged into questions which deal with the "evolution" of the "atom" or the "molecule" from simpler forms of matter.
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