Dods, M: Book of Genesis (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Book of Genesis

What then are the truths taught us in these chapters The first is that there has been a creation, that things now existing have not just grown of them selves, but have been called into being by a presiding intelligence and an originating will. No attempt to account for the existence of the world in any other way has been successful. A gneat deal has in this generation been added to our knowledge of the efficiency of material causes to produce what we see around us; but when we ask what gives harmony to these material causes, and what guides them to the production of certain ends, and what originally produced them, the answer must still be, not matter but intelligence and purpose. The best informed and most penetrating minds of our time affirm this. John Stuart Mill says It must be allowed that in the present state of our knowledge the adaptations in nature afford a large balance of probability in favour of creation by intelli gence. Professor Tyndall adds his testimony and says: I have noticed during years of self-observation that it is not in hours of clearness and vigour that [the doctrine of material atheism] commends itself to my mind - that in the hours of stronger and healthier thought it ever dissolves and disappears, as offering no solution of the mystery in which we dwell and of which we-form a part.

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