 | Samuel Wilberforce - 1874 - 412 페이지
...demonstrated to be actually impossible : — 'If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. Bnt 1 can find no such Another of tliesc assumptions is not a little remarkable. It suits his argument... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 페이지
...one of glass, as the works of the Creator aro to those of man ? Modes of Transition. If it could bo demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which...absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case. Ho doubt many organs exist of which we do not know the transitional grades, more especially if we look... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 486 페이지
...variations ; she can never take a leap, but must advance by short and slow stages" (p. 214). Again he says: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case " (p. 208). He adds : — " Every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little... | |
 | 1876 - 898 페이지
...continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure." * " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." * The writer in the North British Review already, quoted so freely, speaks of " the Darwinian theory... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 488 페이지
...selection." That in this Mr. Darwin is not misrepresented is evident from his own words before quoted : " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."* Also: " Every detail of stricture in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct... | |
 | St. George Jackson Mivart - 1876 - 492 페이지
...own words before quoted : " If it ccmkl he demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which conld not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.''* Also: "Every detail of structure in every living creature (making some little allowance for the direct... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 페이지
...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." Compare that extract with this : " I now admit, after reading the essay of Nageli on plants, and the... | |
 | William Cooke - 1877 - 574 페이지
...less-informed readers may well be staggered, unless they are more credulous than himself. Again he says, " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."t Remarkable reasoning this ! When he fails to prove his theory by facts he challenges his reader... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 페이지
...been produced by the accumulation of slight modifications through natural selection. He says : — " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ...formed by numerous successive slight modifications [natural selection] my theory would absolutely break down." — Origin of Species, p. 146. How simple,... | |
 | Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 페이지
...been produced by the accumulation of slight modifications through natural selection. He says : — " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have beeo formed by numerous successive slight modifications [natural selection] my theory would absolutely... | |
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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. 
