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The thought of a special creation or other wondrous manner of earth’s creation is impossible to establish! Creation theory is held also to apply to the higher species in addition to to the species of a genus, and even Mr. Darwin’s severest critics dare to indicate that the earlier bird, reptile, or fish must have been “specially created.” And this massive, this completely unprecedented change in public belief has been the result of the influence of one man, and was played out in only twenty years! This is the response to those who go on to maintain that the “origin of species” was not yet found. We may accept all of this, just as we might confess that there are deep difficulties in the way of a full comprehension of the source and nature of the solar system and the universe. But we recognize Darwin as the Newton of natural history, just so surely as we admit that the uncovering and demonstration by Newton of the law of gravitational attraction determined order in place of chaos and set a sure foundation for all potential study of the universe, so surely has Darwin, by his discovery of the law of natural selection and his presentation of the great notion of the preservation of useful variations in the struggle for existence built a firm origination for all future study of nature.

It is important to point out the perspective Darwin held of his study, and what it was that he alone claimed to have done, the following excerpt of the introduction to the Origin of Species should be carefully counted. “Although much rests invisible, and will long remain vague, I can hold no doubt, after the most calculated and dispassionate judgment of which I am capable, that the position which most naturalists until recently harbored and which I formerly entertained is mistaken. I am fully confident that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are linear descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same mode as the recognized varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species. Furthermore, I am sure that Natural Selection has been the most important, but not the only, means of modification.”

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