A Critique of the Theory of Evolution (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

THEORY OF EVOLUTIONreaction withi7i the mass until the chemical substances that we know today were produced. This is the nebular hypothesis of the astronomer. The astronomer explains, or tries to explain, how this 'evolution took place, by an appeal to the physical processes that have been worked out in the laboratory, processes winch he thinks have existed through all the eons during which this evolution was going on and which were its immediate causes.When the biologist thinks of the evolution of animals and plants, a different picture presents itself. He thinks of series of animals that have Jived in the past, whose bones (fig. 1) and shells have been preserved in the rocks. He thinks of these animals as having in the past given birth, through an unbroken succession of individuals, to the living inhabitants of the earth today. He thinks that the old, simpler types of the past have in part changed over into the more complex forms of today.He is thinking as the historian t