Religion and Science
1. The Method of Argument
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inanimate matter can give birth to life. The only
basis they have for their claim is that the physical
record shows that inanimate matter existed before
life came into the universe. From this they infer that
life came out of inanimate matter, just as a baby
emerges from its mother’s womb. Similarly the
change of one species into another has not been
experienced or observed. Experiments cannot be set
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 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.
