God Arises
The Method of Argument
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creation of life in just one page and a few lines,
whereas the whole of the rest of the book is devoted
to the concept of organic evolution. Similarly, the
Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1958) devotes less than a
quarter of a page to the concept of creationism,
while fourteen pages have been devoted to the
concept of organic evolution. Here too, the
evolution of life is treated as a fact and it is stated
that after Darwin, this concept gained general
acceptance among scientists and the intelligentia.
Now we come to the question of whether this
theory, which still receives general acceptance, has
been observed by its upholder’s own eyes, or its
validity demonstrated by experiment. It must be
conceded that, to date, this has not been done, nor
will it ever be possible to do so. The reasons put
forward for this are that the supposed process of
organic evolution took place in too distant a past
and that, in any case, it is too complicated to be
subjected to observation or experiment. This is a
‘logical method’—to quote Lull—of explaining the
phenomenon of creation.
