Darwin found that birds and plants of different Galapagos Islands were distinct species, yet slightly different between islands. Why did God create a separate species on each island? He also found fossil mammals resembling modern forms. Why do animals go extinct? He developed a hypothesis that in nature, hereditary variation occurs among offspring. Populations multiply beyond their resources, and this results in a struggle for existence among descendants, in which the strongest prevail and the weakest fail and die out. Individual variation—ever so slight—determines the winner. This natural selection of the fittest explains the origin of all species. Diversity forms by descent from common ancestry, with modification piling up in adaptive directions by non-random survival of random hereditary varieties. Darwin claimed that basic morphology, comparative embryology, rudimentary organs, fossils, classification, fertile hybrids and human selection of domestic breeds all support his hypothesis. Variation is a basic feature of all species. The individual is important, not the type, because there is no “typical” individual of a species. Organisms form an ever-branching tree, not a Ladder of Life. Evolution through natural selection explains the diversity of nature, and this is the basic law of Life. Darwin’s theory of natural selection as the force behind evolution was not readily accepted. Agassiz denied variation within a species, thereby dismissing Darwin’s theory. Individuals differing even slightly are separate species, not variants. Nature is the product of God’s Creation and symbolizes divine intelligence, and therefore species are immutable. Animals had been created wherever they are found, land animals on land, sea creatures in marine habitats. The Creator wipes out one fauna and starts anew, with models different from those cast aside. There is no evidence of a relationship between distinct species, and hence, there is no proof for evolution. Some fossils, intermediate in that they possess a combination of characters of different groups, offer evidence that the plan of the creation had been considered long before it was executed. To further disprove Darwinian evolution, Agassiz claimed that a huge ice sheet had once covered South America, destroying all life. The current flora and fauna of South America were created anew after the ice had receded, with no relationship between animals that had lived there prior and after this glacial epoch. This, he claimed, is evidence of the mistaken concepts of Darwinian evolution.

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Joseph Heller

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Darwin found that birds and plants of different Galapagos Islands were distinct species, yet slightly different between islands. Why did God create a separate species on each island? He also found fossil mammals resembling modern forms. Why do animals go extinct? He developed a hypothesis that in nature, hereditary variation occurs among offspring. Populations multiply beyond their resources, and this results in a struggle for existence among descendants, in which the strongest prevail and the weakest fail and die out. Individual variation—ever so slight—determines the winner. This natural selection of the fittest explains the origin of all species. Diversity forms by descent from common ancestry, with modification piling up in adaptive directions by non-random survival of random hereditary varieties. Darwin claimed that basic morphology, comparative embryology, rudimentary organs, fossils, classification, fertile hybrids and human selection of domestic breeds all support his hypothesis. Variation is a basic feature of all species. The individual is important, not the type, because there is no “typical” individual of a species. Organisms form an ever-branching tree, not a Ladder of Life. Evolution through natural selection explains the diversity of nature, and this is the basic law of Life. Darwin’s theory of natural selection as the force behind evolution was not readily accepted. Agassiz denied variation within a species, thereby dismissing Darwin’s theory. Individuals differing even slightly are separate species, not variants. Nature is the product of God’s Creation and symbolizes divine intelligence, and therefore species are immutable. Animals had been created wherever they are found, land animals on land, sea creatures in marine habitats. The Creator wipes out one fauna and starts anew, with models different from those cast aside. There is no evidence of a relationship between distinct species, and hence, there is no proof for evolution. Some fossils, intermediate in that they possess a combination of characters of different groups, offer evidence that the plan of the creation had been considered long before it was executed. To further disprove Darwinian evolution, Agassiz claimed that a huge ice sheet had once covered South America, destroying all life. The current flora and fauna of South America were created anew after the ice had receded, with no relationship between animals that had lived there prior and after this glacial epoch. This, he claimed, is evidence of the mistaken concepts of Darwinian evolution.