germ cells of each species. Under arti ficial selection new or unusual combi nations appear which constitute new varieties, but no new species. Mendel’s law affords conclusive evidence that each species reproduces after its kind, as the Bible originally put forth in the long ago. New species which maintain their distinctives are not biologically possible. Characteristics never disap- "An Ordinary Day" It w ill be on an ordinary day, My Lord comes to take His own away. There'll be laughing, there'll be weep i n g , . There'll be giving, there'll be keeping Perhaps on a morning such as this. Ere the sun has given to earth its kiss, When the night hours are receding. When my Lord has finished plead- ing, He'll transport us to heaven's eternal bliss. When the business of the day is at full heat, Folk hurrying along each crowded street. W ith their eyes upon earth's treas ure and A selfishly spent leisure, No time to seek the Mercy Seat. Suddenly as the moments fly, and The people of the nations pass God by, Looking for someone to guide them, From the fear that is inside them, His trumpet sound w ill call us home on high. As a thief, says my Lord, in the night, He w ill steal us away from out men's sight, There'll be trembling consterna tion, A t the awful realization, What believers said, was true and Oh! so right. — E. K . Harvey— pear but reappear again and again in succeeding generations according to a fixed law, but in varied combinations. It is a well known fact that acquired physical characteristics are not trans mitted to the offspring. The habit of foot binding common among some of
the Oriental women for centuries has not led to any inherited deformity of the foot of the offspring. The late professor L. B. Walton of Kenyon College, has said that “one need not be a pessimist to assert that the actual evidence thus far obtained indicates that the supposed progress made in the improvement of domesti cated animals and plants is nothing more than the sorting out of pure lines and thus representing no advance ment.” Cats and dogs may have been further developed but they have not evolved from a common ancestor. Our domestic chicken is a descendant of the Roman fowl and no essential change has taken place in 2,000 generations of earnest breeding. It is true that pro ductivity and longevity have been advanced, but the chicken is essentially just the same. Similarly, the late Sir William Bateson, of Cambridge Uni versity, who was a pioneer in the field of genetics, has stated, “Analysis has revealed hosts of transferable charac ters. Their combinations suffice to sup ply in abundance series of types which might pass for new species and cer tainly would so be classed if they were met with in nature. Yet critically tested, we find that they are not dis tinct species and we have no reason to suppose that any combination of characteristics would result in some distinct change or new species.” During the past fifty years, biologists have repeatedly attempted to produce new species, using quickly breeding animals or insects for this purpose. Thus, eight hundred generations of the fruit fly have been selectively bred in the hope of evolving a new species, just to prove that evolution is scientific, but all without success. Back in 1927, Muller discovered that by exposing animals to the X-Rays, the rate at which marked variations, or mutations, appeared was speeded up about 150 times. Since then, the fruit fly and oth er creatures have been treated exten sively with X-Rays, but the only result has been that the same variations have appeared far more frequently than be fore. 9
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