Essays on DarwinismLongmans, Green, 1871 - 184 páginas |
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... thousands of per- sons , whom in ordinary courtesy we must call well - educated , although they know nothing of science , hold opinions on the Flood and the age of the world as irreconcileable with the best - approved scientific ...
... thousands of per- sons , whom in ordinary courtesy we must call well - educated , although they know nothing of science , hold opinions on the Flood and the age of the world as irreconcileable with the best - approved scientific ...
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... thousands as we require . Say that two race - courses differ in length by one yard ; multiply that difference 1760 times and they will then differ by a whole mile . If , on leaving this Lecture - room , you found the trees- which half ...
... thousands as we require . Say that two race - courses differ in length by one yard ; multiply that difference 1760 times and they will then differ by a whole mile . If , on leaving this Lecture - room , you found the trees- which half ...
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... thousand millions of grains1 . What , then , would be the position of the world , if , starting with a thousand millions of grains , this rate of increase were allowed to continue unchecked , not for thirty years , but for three ...
... thousand millions of grains1 . What , then , would be the position of the world , if , starting with a thousand millions of grains , this rate of increase were allowed to continue unchecked , not for thirty years , but for three ...
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... thousand years instead of three hundred without being able to prove the theory of Natural Selection by actual observing . But when a group of most important observed facts can be explained consistently by this theory , and by none other ...
... thousand years instead of three hundred without being able to prove the theory of Natural Selection by actual observing . But when a group of most important observed facts can be explained consistently by this theory , and by none other ...
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... thousand centuries to rear up a mountain , and yet , if we reckon the age of the globe on the scale of a man's life , the mountain be but of yesterday . The immense antiquity , not only of the globe , but of that thin crust of it open ...
... thousand centuries to rear up a mountain , and yet , if we reckon the age of the globe on the scale of a man's life , the mountain be but of yesterday . The immense antiquity , not only of the globe , but of that thin crust of it open ...
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