The thinnest vapor or the merest supposition will suffice to risk his eternal salvation upon; provided only it contradicts the Bible and gets rid of God.

We can not avoid asking with as much gravity as we can command, Where did the mist come from?
Did the mist make itself?
Where did the fire come from?
Did it kindle of its own accord?
Who put the fire and mist together?
Was it red hot enough from all eternity to melt granite?
Then why is it any cooler now?
How could an eternal red heat cool down?
If it existed as a red hot fire mist from eternity, until our atheist began to observe it beginning to cool, why should it ever begin to cool at all, and why begin to cool just then?
Fill it as full of electricity, magnetism and odyle as you please; do these afford any _reason_ for its very extraordinary conduct?
The utmost they do is to show you _how_ such a change took place, but they neither tell you _where the original matter came from_, nor _why its form was changed_.

Change is an effect, and every effect requires a cause.

There could be no cause outside of the fire mist; for they say there was nothing else in the universe.

Then the cause must be in the mist itself.