God Arises
The Method of Argument
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up in a zoo to show how the mutation of a goat into
a giraffe takes place. The inference that the species
did not come into existence separately has been
made purely on the basis of the similarities between
species and the differences that exist between
siblings.
The belief, too, that intelligence has developed out
of instinct, implies that man has also evolved from
animals. But, in actual fact, instinct has never been
seen to develop into intelligence. This is also purely
an inference based on geological research which
demonstrates that fossils of animals endowed with
instincts are found in the lower strata, while those
endowed with intelligence are to be found in the
upper strata.
In all such arguments, the link between supposition
and truth is only one of inference and not one of
experiment or observation. Yet, on the basis of such
inferential arguments, the concept of evolution, in
modern times, has been considered a scientific fact.
That is, to the modern mind, the sphere of academic
facts is not limited only to those events which are
known by direct experience. Rather, what
logically
