An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . 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 affinitie
An exposition of fallacies in the hypothesis of MrDarwin . 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. Fig. 10.—Oenithokynchus paradoxus. The duck-billed Platypus and its Skull, implacental mammal, from which was descended boththe newdmetic ornithorynchus and kangaroo (fig. 11). But the anatomy of the kangaroo points out mostserious objections to such evolution having beeneffected by means of natural selection. Mr. St. G. Mivart has summarised the difficultiesas follows :— The young kangaroo is born in such anexceedingly imperfect and undeveloped condition thatit is quite unable to suck. The mother thereforeplaces the minute, blind, and naked young upon the Y 322 FALLACIES OF DARWINISM. \ nipple^ and then injects milk into it by means of aspecial muscular envelope of the mammary no special provision exist, the young one mustinfallibly be choked by the intrusion of milk into thewindpipe. But there is a special provision. Thelarynx is so elongated that it rises up into the pos-terior end of the nasal passage, and is thus enabled togive free entrance to the air for the lungs
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