The Churches and Modern Thought / An inquiry into the grounds of unbelief and an appeal for candour

of the Darwinian theory, "natural selecti

Haeckel's Monism and Rationalistic agnosticism are based on Darwin's doctrine of natural selection, and he enters upon an elaborate argument-covering sixty pages of his book-to show that the origin of species by means of natural selection is false, and that the primary cause of Evolution is the definite action of the environment, combined with the adaptive powers of the living organism. Such argume

of all the causes which have led to the differences in external appearance between the races of men, and to a certain extent

s lack of candour in never withdrawing the statement made by him, and demonstrated by Huxley as untrue, that the hippocampus minor in the human brain is absent from the brain of the ape." (See p. 172 of Mr. Clodd's Pioneers of Evolution. See also remarks by Sir Charles Lyell, pp. 485

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transitional form between man and the ape. Professor Haeckel writes concerning this in his book, The Evolution of Man, vol. ii., p. 633: "There were very interesting scientific discussions on it at the last three International Congresses of Zoology (Leyden, 1895; Cambridge, 1898; and Berlin, 1901). I took an active part in t

by Professor Ray Lankester in his lecture at the London Institution on November 2nd, 1906) discovered a remarkable skull

celebrated French naturalist, a persistent opponent of the evolutionary doctrines advanced by Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, did not believe it possible that any four-footed anima

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.-The dogmas of sin

ant as our earth; and to maintain the old theological view of the supreme value of this little insignificant planet in the eyes of the 'Almighty Ruler' of such a universe, or to suppose that He w