Category: Science - Biology

Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation

The great world disaster, ushered in with the dawn of that August morning in 1914, has already brought revolutionary changes in many departments of our thinking. But not the least of the surprises awaiting an amazed world, whenever attention can again be directed to such subje...

Chapters

2. Chapter 2

The discussion of the details of these theories would be unprofitable. But through the mists of all these conflicting theories and probabilities two facts of tremendous importan...

8. Chapter 8

We need not here attempt to discuss the existence or even the nature of God. The Infinite One in all His attributes is above and beyond discussion. But there are some things tha...

3. Chapter 3

Just so, though in a somewhat idealistic sense, is it with what we may term vital energy. Cells, organisms, even whole races, are subject to degeneration and decay. They cannot...

7. Chapter 7

3. According to the present chronological arrangement of the rocks, very many genera, often whole tribes of animals, are found as fossils only in the oldest rocks, and _have ski...

5. Chapter 5

"Thus the common Channel Catfish of our rivers has been described as a new species not less than _twenty-five times_, on account of differences real or imaginary, but comparativ...

4. Chapter 4

"But there is something more surprising still. Compare next the two sets of germs, the vegetable and the animal, and there is no shade of difference. Oak and palm, worm and man,...

6. Chapter 6

"The essence of the Mendelian principle is very easily expressed. It is, first, that in great measure the properties of organisms are due to the presence of distinct, detachable...

1. Chapter 1

The great world disaster, ushered in with the dawn of that August morning in 1914, has already brought revolutionary changes in many departments of our thinking. But not the lea...

9. Chapter 9

2. The mockers here described certainly talk exactly like our modern _uniformitarians_; for they argue that "from the days that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as t...