Moreover, if free will and foreknowledge are _always_ and _necessarily_ inconsistent, then the Creator cannot have any foreknowledge of _His Own_ acts, or else they are not free on His part; neither of which seems at all probable. We are not, of course, arguing from this that He actually does foreknow how He will act Himself, or how a free man will act, but only that it is not in the nature of things impossible that He should do so; in other words, that free will and foreknowledge are not _necessarily_ inconsistent. And this is precisely what we had to show. The marks of design in nature afford what seems to be overwhelming evidence in favour of the foreknowledge of the Creator. The objection we are considering is that, in spite of all this evidence, we must still deny it, because some of the organisms in nature, such as man, possess a free will; and therefore any foreknowledge is in the nature of things impossible. And the instant it is shown that such foreknowledge is not impossible, the objection falls to the ground. We may now sum up the argument in this chapter. We first explained that by _Design_ was meant any voluntary action combined with foreknowledge of the results of that action. We next considered the evidence for design in nature, taking, as a single example, the human eye. And this evidence appeared complete and overwhelming; more especially as we were not appealing to it to show the existence of a Creator, which is already admitted, but merely His foreknowledge. And we have since considered the two apparent objections to this argument arising from Evolution and Free Will. But when carefully examined, the former only strengthens the argument, while the latter does not weaken it. We therefore conclude, on reviewing the whole subject, that the Creator _designed the universe_. CHAPTER III. THAT THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IS EXTREMELY PROBABLE. (_A._) MEANING OF THE TERM GOD. The Personal Being who designed and created the universe. (_B._) TWO OF GOD'S ATTRIBUTES. Wisdom and Power. He is also Omnipresent. (_C._) THE OBJECTION THAT GOD IS UNKNOWABLE. This is partly true; but everything is unknowable in its real nature, though in each case the partial knowledge we can obtain is all we require. (_D._) SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT. The position in the argument at which we have now arrived is this. We showed in the last chapter that the Creator designed the universe; in other words, that when he created it, He foreknew its future history. And from this the next step, as to the existence of God, is quite plain; in fact, it is merely a question of words. (_A._) MEANING OF THE TERM GOD. Now any being who is able to design we will call a _personal being_. And GOD is the name given to the Personal Being who designed and created the universe.