The Relation of Science and Religion.pdf - Online Christian Library

188 SCIENCE AND RELIGION.eons, and dogs, must strive to complete itswork, by pressing on to this more complicatedquestion concerning the adaptation ofdistinct organisms to influence and aid eachother in the work of development. In whatway science may deal with this question, andhow far it may be able to advance in thesearch for an answer, it may be difficult todecide. For it is much easier to indicate thelogical necessity for an advance, than to sayin what manner the advance is to be accomplished.The one is a simple question of logicalrequirement; the other must be a matterof continued observation, and scientific inference.Whether science may yet discover ananswer; or whether it may prove true at thispoint, as at other points already mentioned,that science has here reached clear marks ofits own limits, must be left to the future, tobe determined by those devoted to scientificresearch. As long, however, as this questionof interdependence remains without a scientificexplanation, it must be obvious thatthere are important facts which seem to implysome modification of the theory of descent,or evolution of species by means ofselection, under the severe struggle for exist-