The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-01-17

KEEPER Of the botanical department
leftho British Museum He caIeful-
Us Distinguishes the Dag8inian
5g5 81 Development by the suFyii
3sal sf thb from DE sfelop;
non by ion lna'eAls NJ thR
llc Iec0fd.
We gisehis testimony from slh ad,
Edress to the Biologists Association,
of which he was then the president,
at the opening of the session 1876
'1S77, published in the proceedings
of the Association, January, 1877.
Dr. Carruthers says;
"The evidences for or against. this
hypothesis must be sought in the
records Of the past history of the
earth, for whatever progress has been
made in. collecting collateral. evil.
dence, no single case of evolution Of
one speciesfrom another has come
within, the observation Of man. The
plants portrayed on the ancient
spaiptings and sculptures of Eggps
fruits placed in collins with en-
tbalmea bodies, and the fruits and.
seeds found ins ancient lake dwell.
ing, all belpng to existing species,
with which they agree ID the most
ahnhte and apparently accidental
particulars. The-existing order Of
ellants, fit be.due,to genetic eyolu-
ton, sppplics;pd proof of it.
sEo,qsabt there lisrih the older
Paledaoie. rocks a great absence of
any records of land life. But thGey.
dldtian Of the Vascular Cfyptegams
and the;Phanerogams from the green
I;seaweeds through the liverworts and
moses; FIT took place.. must have.
been carried on through a long sue.
cession Of ages, and by an .innumer-,
l,ahle. series of gradually advancing.
E.stsps; and yet we find not single
trace either of the early water forms
lSEee she letets snd .stss tn,grs 1tuTngTs-
fous dry land forms The complete
absence of such forms, and the sud-
den eontemporaneous appearance of
highly-organized and widely scpara-
ted, groups, deprive the hypothesis
of genetic evolution of and counte-
nance from the plant record of these
ancient rocks. The whole evidence
is against evolution, and there is
none in favor of it.
"Butthe earliest representatives
| of these various sections of the vege-
table kingdom we're not generalized
forms, but as highly organized as
recent forms, and in many cases
more highly organized, and the di-
visions were as clearly bounded in
their essential characters, and as de-
cidedly separated from each other,
as they are at'the present day. De-
veloymens is not the property of the
eyolutionist; indeed, the Mosaic mar
rative-tho oldest scheme Of creation
which tracesall nature to a super
natural Creatop represents the oper-
ations of that Creator as having been
carried out in series Of develop
ments, from the calling Of matter
toexistence, through various stages
in the organic world, until man him.
self is reached. The real question
is, does science give us any light as
to hOw this development was accom-
plished? Is it possible, from the
record of organic life preserved in
the sedimentary deposits, to odiscovor
the method or agent through the ac-
ton of which the lew forms appear
ed on the globe? The rocks record
the existence of the plants and ami
NAL FORMS but as yet they have dis
closed nothing whatever as to how
these forms originated"
1t seems now quite firmly cstab-
lishcd that the Darwinian theory is
disprovod by the facts, and that it is
not a right Interpretation of nature.
-Sunday School World.
II lis Good TO be Poor.