WG-23-24. CONCLUSION
24. CONCLUSION
WE find, then, that changes of the kind which philosophers call " evolutionary” are the invariable incident of all human institutions; and on the other hand that evolutionary changes occur nowhere else in the known universe. It may be said that there is nothing which so peculiarly characterizes human affairs, and so clearly distinguishes them from all other parts of the universe, as the fact that the former are subject without interruption to evolutionary changes, from which all other parts of creation are exempt. This is a fact of truly immense significance; and what explanation can be given of a difference so extraordinary and so profound? What adequate explanation can there be if we reject that which the Scriptures supply—namely, that human affairs, since the fall of the parents of the race, have not been conducted according to God’s plan and method, but according to the plan and method of another? Evolutionary changes began with man’s departure from the plan of God, and have characterized all he has done in his state of departure. They will cease when man’s experiment in self-development and self-will shall have been brought to the end towards which it is hastening, and when God’s will is done in earth as it is in heaven.
We ask now an answer to our question: Is the account which we read in the third of Genesis true? If it were merely a matter of finding an hypothesis capable of standing awhile in the niche from which the Darwinian theory has been displaced, the question would not be worth the asking. Neither is it a matter of much consequence whether or not “the thought and culture of the age” adopt a “theistic explanation” of the universe. To defend one theory or to attack another is not an object to which the writer would give any thought or attention. These pages are not written with the object of gaining the reader’s acceptance of a theory which may serve as a provisional resting-place for his mental speculations; but “these are written that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing, ye may have Life through His Name.”