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"Whence came all things?" To that question Evolution has no serious at– tempt at reply. The declaration of Scripture, that "To each seed it is given to bring forth after its kind," harmonizes with Men– del's law; and to that law of genera– tion neither land nor sea has ever pre– sented an exception, no matter to what depths the seas have been sounded or the lands have been digged! The late Duke of Argyle says, "New forms always appear suddenly from no known source and generally, if of a new type, exhibiting that type in great strength as to numbers and in great There are some tracks of time regard– ing which our records are as complete as we could desire. In the Jurassic rocks we have a continuous and undis– turbed series of long and tranquil de– posits-containing a complete record of
all the new forms which were Intro– duced during these ages ot oceanic life. These are all as definite and dis– tinct from each other as existing spe– cies. There is no sign of mixture, or ot confusion, or of infinitesimal or ot in– termediate variations. These Medals ot Creation are all, each of them, struck by a new die, which never failed to impress itself on the plastic materials of this truly creative work."
No Change in Animal or Vegetable Lite Algae, the earliest form of vegetable life, have not changed a whit In the millions of years since they made their first appearance; and a kindred remark perfection as regards organization. might be made concerning every vege-
table species, even the new varieties which appear from time to time quickly subsiding and tending to revert to type. So also in the lower forms of animal life, such as the horse-shoe crab, brachl– pod lingula and others.
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