While on this subject it may be worth while to call your attention to other fantastic imaginings of which those are guilty who reject the Bible and enter the field of speculation—­fiction surpassing anything to be found in the Arabian Nights.  If one accepts the Scriptural account of the creation, he can credit God with the working of miracles and with the doing of many things that man cannot understand.  The evolutionist, however, having substituted what he imagines to be a universal law for separate acts of creation must explain everything.  The evolutionist, not to go back farther than life just now, begins with one or a few invisible germs of life on the planet and imagines that these invisible germs have, by the operation of what they call “resident forces,” unaided from without, developed into all that we see to-day.  They cannot in a lifetime explain the things that have to be explained, if their hypothesis is accepted—­a useless waste of time even if explanation were possible.

Take the eye, for instance; believing in the Mosaic account, I believe that God made the eyes when He made man—­not only made the eyes but carved out the caverns in the skull in which they hang.  It is easy for the believer in the Bible to explain the eyes, because he believes in a God who can do all things and, according to the Bible, did create man as a part of a divine plan.

But how does the evolutionist explain the eye when he leaves God out?  Here is the only guess that I have seen—­if you find any others I shall be glad to know of them, as I am collecting the guesses of the evolutionists.  The evolutionist guesses that there was a time when eyes were unknown—­that is a necessary part of the hypothesis.  And since the eye is a universal possession among living things the evolutionist guesses that it came into being—­not by design or by act of God—­but just happened, and how did it happen?  I will give you the guess—­a piece of pigment, or, as some say, a freckle appeared upon the skin of an animal that had no eyes.  This piece of pigment or freckle converged the rays of the sun upon that spot and when the little animal felt the heat on that spot it turned the spot to the sun to get more heat.  The increased heat irritated the skin—­so the evolutionists guess, and a nerve came there and out of the nerve came the eye!  Can you beat it?  But this only accounts for one eye; there must have been another piece of pigment or freckle soon afterward and just in the right place in order to give the animal two eyes.

And, according to the evolutionist, there was a time when animals had no legs, and so the leg came by accident.  How?  Well, the guess is that a little animal without legs was wiggling along on its belly one day when it discovered a wart—­it just happened so—­and it was in the right place to be used to aid it in locomotion; so, it came to depend upon the wart, and use finally developed it into a leg.  And then another wart and another leg, at the proper time—­by accident—­and accidentally in the proper place.  Is it not astonishing that any person intelligent enough to teach school would talk such tommyrot to students and look serious while doing so?