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Author : Schultz Alfred Paul Karl Eduard
Title : The end of Darwinism Not change but persistence is characteristic of life Every change is essentially a persistence Only what persists can change
Year : 1911

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I have before me an article in which I read : - "With different modiftcations the theory of evolution is now accepted by every competent mind in the civilized world. What does that mean ? I t means that since the far off beginning - say beginning, because I do not know how else to express my thoughts, for we can conceive of no beginning - there has been gradual growth, from the simple to the complex, from the lower to the higher, from the poorer to the relatively better." The theory of evolution is not accepted by every competent mind, and it is not accepted for compelling reasons. The truth is, that not one fact bas been discovered which substantiates the theory, and many facts which prove it to be erroneous, not only erroneous but impossible. It is a conception of nature, which is not at all the last thought of science but on the contrary the simplest and crudest of explanations. It is as plausible and as apparently self evident a truth, as the truth that the earth is a stationary plate in the centre of the universe around which the river Oceanus flows and the sun and stars revolve. Buechner praises the Indian for his lack of prejudice in calling the wolf his brother. No savage doubts the evolution of one species into another. Every Hottentot believes in spontaneous generation. The Babylonians and Egyptians of old held the same notions concerning life. Some of the Greek philosophers preached this doctrine. Aristotle held it. Anaximander forbids the eating of fish for the reason that 'fish is father and mother of man.' ...