. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . rowing tree, somebranches overshadowed die, while others push on for Hght,forming new lateral buds, and dividing as they grow. Bycontinued divergent change, species gradually become genera;genera, families, etc. Thus, varieties, species, genera, fami-Hes, orders, classes, etc., are only different degrees of differ-ences formed all in the same way. Varieties are only com-mencing species, species commencing genera, and so on. Ina perfect classification, varieties, species, genera, families,orders, classes, etc., are onl
. God's two books; or, Plain facts about evolution, geology, and the Bible . rowing tree, somebranches overshadowed die, while others push on for Hght,forming new lateral buds, and dividing as they grow. Bycontinued divergent change, species gradually become genera;genera, families, etc. Thus, varieties, species, genera, fami-Hes, orders, classes, etc., are only different degrees of differ-ences formed all in the same way. Varieties are only com-mencing species, species commencing genera, and so on. Ina perfect classification, varieties, species, genera, families,orders, classes, etc., are only different degrees of blood-kin-ship.— Evolution and Religious Thought, pages 72, 73, Now in this statement of -he case we may note threeassumptions which are contrary to both the Bible and truescience. I give them here in outline, and shall then brieflydiscuss them somewhat. These assumptions are: — 1. That species are variable without limit. 2. That the time at our command, that is, the timesince life has been on the globe, has been long enough to 60 GODS TWO BOOKS. AU(.UST WEISMANN (born Jan. 17, 1834)Professor in the University of Freibiir:, in Iaden GODS TWO BOOKS 61 develop in this way all the countless forms of life now inexistence. 3. That the general tendency of unlimited variationsthrough almost unlimited time would be always in an up-ward direction, i. e., toward a more complex development. Regarding the first of these assumptions, we may brieflysay that there has not yet been a single new species, amongeither plants or animals, produced by either natural or arti-ficial selection, since man began to observe and we say new species, we mean new physiologicalspecies as defined above by Le Conte and the StandardDictionary. In fact, most scientists acknowledge that, how-ever plastic they may imagine them to be in the abstract,and especially in times long past, species are now fixedwithin certain limits, beyond which we have never yet beenable to carry
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