. The theory of evolution in the light of facts. debris), into which the earths strata had beenchanged by the Flood, dried again, the crust burst andthere were heavings and sinkings. That earthquakesand the like had been able to form the Alps was, in hisidea, a lame opinion. ^ K. V. Zittel: Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie his Ende des19 Jahrhunderts, Munich-Leipzig, 1899, 24. ^ I, p. 61, Augsburg und Ulm, 1731. ^ Since he found remains of all animal forms, he deduced that allanimal life was annihilated, and, from that, that the Deluge was universal: Since all that lived and moved the
. The theory of evolution in the light of facts. debris), into which the earths strata had beenchanged by the Flood, dried again, the crust burst andthere were heavings and sinkings. That earthquakesand the like had been able to form the Alps was, in hisidea, a lame opinion. ^ K. V. Zittel: Geschichte der Geologie und Paläontologie his Ende des19 Jahrhunderts, Munich-Leipzig, 1899, 24. ^ I, p. 61, Augsburg und Ulm, 1731. ^ Since he found remains of all animal forms, he deduced that allanimal life was annihilated, and, from that, that the Deluge was universal: Since all that lived and moved therein was drownedTis clear the Flood prevailed the whole world round. (p. 64, Translation.) The man of evil lucks remains likewise from out the groundHave now been dug, and for it many reasons have been found. (p. 66, Translation.) This man of evil luck ( a disturbed skeleton of an old sinner ) even-tually proved to be the skeleton of a gigantic Salamander (now in Haarlem). 8 THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION The Noachian Deluge was made responsible for. Figs. 2-4.—Lusus skeletons completed. {After A. Kircher.) everything. That the earths strata could be formedby quiet deposit of flooded materials such as sand ORIGIN OF THE PROBLEM 9 and mud, as now happens, he had no regards the causes of elevation and depression andthe significance of volcanic catastrophes the properunderstanding failed him entirely. But this point of view likewise failed to be per-manently maintained. It was gradually recognizedthat the separate and sharply defined strata concealedvaried fauna and flora in their depths. There must,therefore, have happened several such mighty floods,or catastrophes of other kinds—the hving world wasannihilated repeatedly and arose again as often. Since,however—precisely because they often varied greatlyfrom each other—no one conceived the thought thatthe separate successive organic forms might derivetheir origin from each other by descent, nothing rema
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