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Chance becomes a sort of providence, which, under the cover of

atheism, is not named but which is secretly worshipped. 22

Attribution of the power of creation to inanimate materials and

unconscious atoms is surely a serious defect in logic. Just as idolaters

believed that lifeless idols created all beings, evolutionists and

materialists of today believe that lifeless matter spontaneously evolved

into living beings, meaning that inanimate substances are beings of

mind and consciousness and that they can decide and act upon

decisions. From this standpoint they consider everything divine.

For example, evolutionists consider a rose blooming in its vivid

red color out of muddy soil divine because they believe that the rose

came into being all by itself or that the inanimate elements

constituting a rose can spontaneously design and form the flower.

Similarly, the evolutionists view oranges, apples, strawberries,

bananas, grapevines, flowers, deer, lions, elephants, ants, honeybees,

flies, marine animals, melons, and parsley, in brief, all living as well as

non-living beings to have been capable of creating themselves since

they claim that all of these beings and millions of others developed to

their current physical states through their own will and consciousness.

In another example the evolutionists' claim is that a honeybee,

previously "another" living being, somehow at one point in time

22 Evolution of Living Organisms, p. 107.

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