Nature and the Bible: Lectures on the Mosaic History of Creation in Its Relation to Natural Science, 2. köideClark, 1886 |
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... - cerned with the kinds or species . Now men of science are at variance as to the meaning and the extent of the word " species . " In- dividuals which spring from the same parents undoubtedly belong to 34 NATURE AND THE BIBLE .
... - cerned with the kinds or species . Now men of science are at variance as to the meaning and the extent of the word " species . " In- dividuals which spring from the same parents undoubtedly belong to 34 NATURE AND THE BIBLE .
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... belong to the same species ; but of course the genealogy of individuals can only be proved to a very small extent and in exceptional cases . Cuvier gives us the following definition , " All the individual animals and plants which can be ...
... belong to the same species ; but of course the genealogy of individuals can only be proved to a very small extent and in exceptional cases . Cuvier gives us the following definition , " All the individual animals and plants which can be ...
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... belong to the same genus but to the same species , and are possibly descended from the same or similar ancestors , it is clear that no objec- tion can be made to the common ancestry of negroes and Europeans . On the whole I think there ...
... belong to the same genus but to the same species , and are possibly descended from the same or similar ancestors , it is clear that no objec- tion can be made to the common ancestry of negroes and Europeans . On the whole I think there ...
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... belong to this class are found in great quantities in the Silurian strata . If the assertion that organic life must have begun with the lowest and simplest forms were correct , sponges , polythalamacea , and similar animals would form ...
... belong to this class are found in great quantities in the Silurian strata . If the assertion that organic life must have begun with the lowest and simplest forms were correct , sponges , polythalamacea , and similar animals would form ...
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... belong , whether it will be a reptile , a bird , or a mammal ; later still the order appears , then the family , " and so 66 on . Besides , " adds Baer , " the original resemblance between the embryos of all vertebrata is exaggerated by ...
... belong , whether it will be a reptile , a bird , or a mammal ; later still the order appears , then the family , " and so 66 on . Besides , " adds Baer , " the original resemblance between the embryos of all vertebrata is exaggerated by ...
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Page 87 - The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species ; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species.
Page 87 - The limbs divided into great branches, and these into lesser and lesser branches, were themselves once, when the tree was small, budding twigs; and this connection of the former and present buds by ramifying branches may well represent the classification of all extinct and living species in groups subordinate to groups.
Page 246 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 88 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 326 - In the time of the Romans the Danish Isles were covered, as now, with magnificent beech forests. Nowhere in the world does this tree flourish more luxuriantly than in Denmark, and eighteen centuries seem to have done little or nothing towards modifying the character of the forest vegetation. Yet in the antecedent bronze period there were no beech trees, or at most but a few stragglers, the country being then covered with oak. In the age of stone again, the Scotch fir prevailed (see p.
Page 183 - And he said, Cursed be Canaan ; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 87 - ... in a fossil state. As we here and there see a thin straggling branch springing from a fork low down in a tree, and which by some chance has been...
Page 154 - The early progenitors of man were no doubt once covered with hair, both sexes having beards ; their ears were pointed and capable of movement ; and their bodies were provided with a tail, having the proper muscles.
Page 134 - It must not be overlooked, however, that there is a very striking difference in absolute mass and weight between the lowest human brain and that of the highest ape...