Nature and the Bible: Lectures on the Mosaic History of Creation in Its Relation to Natural Science, 2. köideClark, 1886 |
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... descended from the three sons of Noah . How do scientific doctrines concerning the origin of organic life , and the relations of the different organisms to one another , agree with these Biblical statements ? And what does biology in ...
... descended from the three sons of Noah . How do scientific doctrines concerning the origin of organic life , and the relations of the different organisms to one another , agree with these Biblical statements ? And what does biology in ...
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... descend from one another , or from common parents , or which resemble the latter as much as the latter resemble each other , belong to the same species . " The last part of this definition is unsatisfactory , because no criterion of ...
... descend from one another , or from common parents , or which resemble the latter as much as the latter resemble each other , belong to the same species . " The last part of this definition is unsatisfactory , because no criterion of ...
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... descended from one pair of ancestors . I have already said that this is not actually the case , but the individuals of different species cannot possibly have had common ancestors . It would in no way derogate from the truth of this ...
... descended from one pair of ancestors . I have already said that this is not actually the case , but the individuals of different species cannot possibly have had common ancestors . It would in no way derogate from the truth of this ...
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... descended from the animals of the earlier geological periods . Cuvier disputed the genealogical connection between the recent and the fossil animals ; Geoffroy maintained that the present animals are descended from the fossil animals ...
... descended from the animals of the earlier geological periods . Cuvier disputed the genealogical connection between the recent and the fossil animals ; Geoffroy maintained that the present animals are descended from the fossil animals ...
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... descended from a few primæval forms , perhaps from one quite simple form . In order to establish this theory an unlimited mutability of organic forms must be supposed possible , in direct contradiction to the theory which obtained ...
... descended from a few primæval forms , perhaps from one quite simple form . In order to establish this theory an unlimited mutability of organic forms must be supposed possible , in direct contradiction to the theory which obtained ...
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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...