An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . Fig. 8.—The Stubgeon, From a specimen taken at Oaklej, Essex.(Drawn by Gr. Reed.) Mark the vast chano;es in time which must haveoccurred before the amphioxus could have beenevolved into the sturoreon. Still more does this remark 320 FALLACIES OF DARWINISM. apply to the next phase, for nothing can be moredifferent than the sturgeon with its isinglass swim-bladder and the lepidosiren, an amphibian reptile, inwhich is found the first appearance of a Fig. —The Lepidosiuen. This remarkable creature is called amphibian, notbecause
An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . Fig. 8.—The Stubgeon, From a specimen taken at Oaklej, Essex.(Drawn by Gr. Reed.) Mark the vast chano;es in time which must haveoccurred before the amphioxus could have beenevolved into the sturoreon. Still more does this remark 320 FALLACIES OF DARWINISM. apply to the next phase, for nothing can be moredifferent than the sturgeon with its isinglass swim-bladder and the lepidosiren, an amphibian reptile, inwhich is found the first appearance of a Fig. —The Lepidosiuen. This remarkable creature is called amphibian, notbecause it can move about like a frog alike in wateror on land, but owing to the fact that it has the powerof remaining dormant, buried in dry mud, for sixmonths, and, when the water is renewed, become activeand lively again. Mr. Darwin says it is not known by what actualmeans of ascent man came through fishes and amphi-bians. He quotes Huxley, however, that dinosaurians(extinct reptiles) have affinities with birds, and thatthe duck-billed platypus has affinities with both birdsand reptiles; therefore he places the latter as an im-portant link in our genealogy. Here it is. (Fig. 10.)From the platypus he traces us through an imaginaryimplacental mammal to the kangaroo. I ought ratherto have said, that after reptiles there was evolved an PLATYPUS AND KANGAROO. 321
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