The Transformist Illusion by Douglas Dewar

Author:Douglas Dewar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: biology, creationism, evolution, non-fiction, science
Publisher: Distributed Proofreaders Canada
Published: 1957-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

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G. G. Simpson on geological evidence gives 5 to 6 million years as the average time taken for the evolution of a new genus of horse (“Tempo and Mode in Evolution” (1944) p. 17). Thus both the fossil and experimental evidence show that the earth has not been in existence nearly long enough to allow of the conversion of a fish into a mammal.

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Note that all the varieties produced by the breeder are fertile when crossed with any other variety while the reverse is the case with species. These usually do not interbreed and if they do and progeny results, this is sterile. Much has been made of this difference between species and varieties by creationists and rightly so, because for all practicable purposes species are immutable. But since the sexual organs, like all other organs and structures in animals and plants exhibit the phenomenon of variation; as if as Paley suggests, variety itself, distinct from every other reason was a motive in the mind of the Creator, and a characteristic of animals is that no two individuals are exactly alike (cf. human finger prints), it would be surprising if since the creation, individuals of many species have not been born which differ so much in their sexual organs from distant members of their species as to be infertile with these.

It is said by F. E. Zeuner (“Dating the Past”) that it takes 500,000 years to produce a “good species” in nature. Thus it is right to speak of the great stability of species.

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