Creation Theory and Distinction among Species

Creation theory or other miraculous, extraordinary means of the earth’s source is absolute nonsense! Special creation theory is declared also to apply to numerous more evolved groups as well as to the species of a genus, and not even Darwin’s severest critics venture to indicate that the earlier bird, reptile, or fish must have been “specially created.” And this vast, this entirely unprecedented change in common thought has been the outcome of the influence of one man, and was brought out in a mere twenty years! This is the resolve to those who go on to maintain that the “origin of species” was not yet ascertained. We may accept all of this, just as we may suggest that there are deep difficulties in the means of a full comprehension of the origin and nature of all the parts of the solar system and of the astral universe. Yet we distinguish Darwin as the Newton of natural history, just so surely as we admit that the uncovering and presentation by Newton of the law of gravitational attraction verified order in place of chaos and placed a sure foundation for all approaching study of the universe, so certainly has Darwin, by his uncovering of the law of natural selection and his demonstration of the great theory of the conservation of usable variations in the struggle for existence established a firm foundation for all prospective study of nature.

In order to show the position Darwin took of his own study, and he alone claimed to have done, the following excerpt of the introduction to the Origin of Species outght to be carefully looked at. “Although much remains invisible, and will long remain obscure, I can hold no doubt, after the most intentional and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the opinion which most naturalists until recently entertained and which I formerly entertainednamely, that each species has been independently createdis false. I am fully positive that species are not changeless; but that those belonging to what are known the same genera are linear descendants of extinct species, in the same mode as the recognized varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am sure that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the exclusive, process of modification.”

The artwork by Michelangelo Adam and God manifests to the brilliance coming forth in the further evolution of art and science.

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