Word: darwin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Darwin suggested two laws, sexual selection and natural selection. Sexual selection has been laughed out of the class room, and natural selection is being abandoned, and no new explanation is satisfactory even to scientists. Some of the more rash advocates of Evolution are wont to say that Evolution is as firmly established as the law of gravitation or the Copernician theory...
...Rutgers he was the Homer Hazel† of his day-a great shot putter, a sturdy footballer. He came forward and presented the public with an explanation** of what evolution is, its facts and theories and the religious attitudes with which it is compatible. He explained evolution, not Darwinism. Darwin was only one of those who have contributed to the doctrine of evolution - although the most important one by reason of the evidence he gathered and the theories which he formulated to explain it. Charles Darwin's own grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had the conception in part. Some of Charles...
...second place, Evolution is no mere guess. Great masses of convincing evidence surround us on every hand. Living animals, prehistoric fossils, such findings as the Java Ape-Man, and the development of domestic animals, etc., show that Darwin's genius was not misdirected. Also, instances are known where we can see Evolution plainly going on, where we can see certain species of wild animals actually changing under our very eyes. Few scientific theories present as over-whelming an array of supporting evidence as Evolution...
...Bryan, with masterly eloquence, declared that our only hope lay in the Christian Religion. Practically everyone agrees with him here. But what has this to do with Evolution? I myself believe in both Christ and Darwin, and fail to see the wisdom of not doing so. True, the theory blows into bits the idea of the Creation as told in the Old Testament. Our Religion is founded on the New Testament, and has little to do with the Old. I think science is strengthening religion, not destroying it. The more we study the facts, and begin to realize that this...
...night-while they were experimenting with a diving helmet outside of Darwin Bay, Tower Island-a weird glare on the horizon. Steaming in that direction at once, the Arcturus came to Albermarle Island, largest in the Galapagos group, where two volcanic peaks were flaming with "fiery cascades of lava ... an unforgettably magnificent spectacle." The photographers on the Arcturus acted. Beebe and a companion, John Tee Van, attempted to approach one of the craters on foot, were driven back by poisonous gases. Forthwith Beebe dubbed the craters Mounts Williams and Whiton, after patrons of the expedition...