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Darwin’s earthquakes
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Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
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- … apparently separate phenomena, began to conceive a grand geological theory. Travelling inland, …
- … that the picture so plainly drawn of the great epochs of violence … causes in the mind a …
- … and other evidence, Darwin was attempting to visualise the geological history of the entire sub …
- … and collapsed. He also began to construct a series of geological cross-sections and these are …
- … movements of the crust were the driving force for all geological change, equally significant in …
Essay: What is Darwinism?
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—by Asa Gray WHAT IS DARWINISM? The Nation, May 28, 1874 The question which Dr. Hodge asks he promptly and decisively answers: ‘What is Darwinism? it is atheism.’ Leaving aside all subsidiary and incidental matters, let us consider–1. What the…
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- … spawn of a fish, were to arrive at maturity, in a very short time the world could not contain them. …
- … acts of creation calling new forms into existence at certain epochs; 3. Not to the constant and …
- … and plants (primordial organisms being postulated and time enough given) with all their structures …
- … special and independent acts of creation at very numerous epochs? Or have they originated under …
- … that even the Creator may be conceived to have improved with time and experience! Never before was …
- … unfavorably for the Darwinians, regarding it mainly from the geological side. As some of our …
Essay: Natural selection & natural theology
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—by Asa Gray NATURAL SELECTION NOT INCONSISTENT WITH NATURAL THEOLOGY. Atlantic Monthly for July, August, and October, 1860, reprinted in 1861. I Novelties are enticing to most people; to us they are simply annoying. We cling to a long-accepted…
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- … good to old beliefs. Foreseeing, yet deprecating, the coming time of trouble, we still hoped that, …
- … alarming. Here the lines converge as they recede into the geological ages, and point to conclusions …
- … suggests a closer association of our ancestors of the olden time with ‘our poor relations’ of the …
- … and chipping out flint knives and arrow-heads in the time of the drift, very many ages ago—before …
- … things with great in a homely illustration: man alters from time to time his instruments or machines …
- … be propagated, like those of domestic cattle. In course of time the old ones would be worn out or …
- … comes in to rebut the objection that there has not been time enough for any marked diversification …
- … for a theory of derivation of one sort from another, nor time enough even to account for the …
- … years ago; at a place in Suffolk they have been exhumed from time to time for more than a century; …
- … so-called species. Whatever might have been thought, when geological time was supposed to be …
- … the natural operations now going on will account for all geological changes in a quiet and easy way, …
- … to what is now going on, or has taken place in the present geological period—which period he carries …
- … species, whether within the present period or in remoter geological times; a very natural view for …
- … the manner in which organized beings were produced in epochs anterior to our own.’ What more …
- … or less tenable, for inferring more. Here another geological consideration comes in to help …
- … The same may be said of another conclusion, namely, that the geological succession of animals and …
- … prophetic relations. . . . The sauroid fishes of the past geological ages are an example of this …
- … types of structure within the same areas during the later geological periods ceases to be mysterious …
- … between the order of succession of animals and plants in geological times, and the gradation among …
- … parallelism between the order of succession of animals in geological times and the changes their …
- … there has been a total depopulation at the close of each geological period or formation, say forty …
- … epoch, this is certainly true of it: if to two or more epochs, then the hypothesis of a total change …
- … we meant for the briefest and most general sketch of some geological considerations in favor of …
- … years and of ages during which the faunas of thirty or more epochs have succeeded one another, and …
- … the weightiest of the objections, is that of the absence, in geological deposits, of vestiges of the …
Review: The Origin of Species
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- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
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- … familiarity—that all animals and all plants throughout all time and space should be related to each …
- … branches; so with the species which lived during long-past geological periods, very few now have …
- … connection . . . the simultaneous existence in the earliest geological periods, . . . of …
- … types of animals and plants characteristic of the different geological epochs, . . . the …
- … parallelism between the order of succession of animals in geological times and the changes their …
- … drawing what comfort he can from ‘the imperfection of the geological record’ (Chapter IX), which we …
- … with varieties. But they have passed and left no sign. The geological record, even if all displayed …
- … on such occasions, that he should have expected more geological evidence of transition than he finds …
- … materials, he had found that the species of the two epochs supposed to be identical by Des Hayes and …
- … divine thought is simultaneous, embracing at the same time and forever, in the past, the present and …
- … the author has succeeded, the scientific world will in due time be able to pronounce. As …
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