The conclusion which our minds are forced to draw from the facts
presented in this chapter is not doubtful, nor is it difficult to state.
Matter is not now being brought into existence by any means that we call
"natural." _And yet the facts of radioactivity very positively forbid
the past eternity of matter_. Hence, the conclusion is syllogistic:
matter must have originated at some time in the past by methods or means
which are equivalent to a real Creation.
Thus far, at least, the record of Genesis is confirmed: "In the
beginning God created."