As we stand with uncovered head and
bowed form in the presence of this great truth, it would seem almost
like sacrilege to attempt by rhetoric to adorn it. Its inevitableness,
its majesty, its transcendent importance for our generation, would only
be obscured by so doing.
The essential idea of the Evolution theory is _uniformity_. It seeks to
show that the present orders of plant and animal life originated by
causes or processes identical with those now said to be operating in our
modern world. It denies that at any particular time in the past causes
and processes were in operation to originate the present order of nature
which were essentially different from the processes now operating in our
world under what we call natural law. Evolution seeks to smooth out all
distinction between Creation and the modern regime of "natural law."
On the other hand, the essential idea of the Christian doctrine of
Creation is that, back at a period called "the beginning," forces and
powers were brought into exercise and results were accomplished which
have not since been exercised or accomplished. In other words, the
origin of the world and the things upon it was essentially and radically
_different_ from the manner in which the present order of nature is now
being sustained and perpetuated.
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