Religion and Science
1. The Method of Argument
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2. When this initial observation is linked with the
fossils preserved in the various layers of the earth’s
crust, it is shown that there is an evolutionary order
relative to the point in time they appeared on earth.
The fossils of the life forms that inhabited the earth
millions of years ago are still extant, buried in the
earth. These fossils reveal that in ancient times, the
animal species living on earth were simpler in form,
then gradually evolved into more complex and
developed forms -meaning thereby that all of the
present forms of life did not come into existence at
one point in time, but that the simpler forms came
first and the more developed forms came at a later
stage.
3. A salient point is that in spite of the obvious
differences in the vast numbers of living creatures,
the latter are marked by many resemblances in their
biological systems. For instance, a fish resembles a
bird; a horse’s skeleton resembles a man’s, and so
on. It follows from this that all the living species are
descended from the same family and have a
common ancestor.
4. How did one species follow another? This
