 IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.  The Bibliotheca Sacra - Page 6751876Full view - About this book
 | William Smith Turner - 1904 - 364 pages
...slight successive variations; it can never take a leap, but must advance by short and slow stages. If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." (Origin of Species, 1859.) Well, here is the demonstration of a complex organ being formed by one vast... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1906 - 632 pages
...cause the offspring to inherit the more favourable form. 1 And when Mr. Darwin goes so far as to say: If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down' ; it is certainly open to any careful observer of nature to reply as Mr. Hassell does. ' Well, be it... | |
 | 1909 - 424 pages
...Variation not determined or directed to any particular result ; and as Darwin himself confessed, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." At the same time it is contended that while Variation provides the essential material. Natural Selection... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1909 - 584 pages
...glass, as the works of the Creator are those of man? MODES OF TRANSITION. If it could b^demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly...formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my^ieory would absolutely 11 down. But I can find out 11o such case. No doubt many organs exist of... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1912 - 776 pages
...as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man? Modes of Transition. If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could »ot possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications^ my theory would absolutely... | |
 | Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 502 pages
...are only apparent, and those that are real are not, I think, fatal to my theory." * Again he says: " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case." t Also: " In many cases it is most difficult to conjecture by what transitions... | |
 | Reginald Brimley Johnson - 1914 - 552 pages
...licence for advancing as true i any theory which cannot be demonstrated to be actually impossible : — If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case. — p. 189. Another of these assumptions is not a little remarkable. It... | |
 | Albert Galloway Keller - 1915 - 390 pages
..."Brain and mind are reacting upon bone and muscle and 1 "If," says Darwin ("Origin of Species," p. 174), "it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." Absence of transitions anywhere thus breaks the course of evolution. subduing and moulding them to... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 pages
...natural inference from this is that descent and natural selection are one and the same thing. Again: " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case. No doubt many organs exist of which we do not know the transitional... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 pages
...natural inference from this is that descent and natural selection are one and the same thing. Again: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case. No doubt many organs exist of which we do not know the transitional... | |
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