 | 1871 - Страниц: 608
...can never take a leap, but must advance by short and slow steps ' (p. 214). Again he says : — ' If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case ' (p. 208). He adds : — ' Every detail of structure in every living... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 808
...can never take a leap, but must advance by short and slow steps." (p. 214.) Again he says: — "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case." (p. 208.) He adds: — " Every detail of structure in every living... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 860
...she can never take a leap, but must advance by short and slow steps" (p. 214). Again he says: — "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have , .. . i those recently made by Professor Brooa, that in following pas- 1 the ^rlleT editions of my... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1861 - Страниц: 470
...might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case. No doubt many organs exist of which we do not know the transitional... | |
 | Страниц: 696
...any visual apparatus in the whole kingdom of nature. The originator of this theory admits that, if it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications, his theory " would absolutely break down."... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1864 - Страниц: 472
...might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man? If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case. No doubt many organs exist of which we do not know the transitional... | |
 | Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - Страниц: 112
...author's fanciful scheme of creation, by the agency of Natural Selection. On page 169, he says : — " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." recipe for making an " eye," which we commend to the reader's special attention. It is as follows :... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 524
...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man ? " If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case. No doubt, many organs exist of which we do not know the transitional grades,... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 510
...hypothesis. " If it could be demonstrated," he says, " that any complex organ existed which could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." The whole tenor and spirit of all that Darwin writes on this subject may be thus paraphrased : —... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - Страниц: 596
...developed into a complex organ. The system stands or falls by the minute changes. " If," says Mr. Darwin, " it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,...modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." To this it may be replied — first, that it is proverbially difficult to prove a negative ; secondly,... | |
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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. 
