CREATION BY EVOLUTION 



Much the same considerations apply to insects. In 

 Madeira and in Kerguelen Land, a small group of volcanic 

 islands in the Antarctic Ocean, there are large numbers of 

 insects that are unable to fly. Madeira has 393 species 

 of insects that are not found elsewhere, of which 178 

 species are incapable of flight. These speci'es could not 

 have reached the island in their present flightless state. 



When all the facts here presented are taken together — the 

 facts of the animal life of the continents and of the islands — 

 it must appear to any unprejudiced mind that the evolu- 

 tionary theory offers by far the most probable explanation 

 of them. The alternative theory can offer no solution of 

 problems of geographic distribution. If the theory of evolu- 

 tion were false it would surely be in conflict with the facts 

 of the geographical distribution of plants and animals. 

 When the distribution of a group is inexplicable by the 

 theory of evolution we find that we have not yet deciphered 

 the history of that group. After its history is made known 

 its present distribution is manifestly the inevitable result of 

 a natural sequence of events. 



We have already deciphered much of what may be called 

 the geographic history of the earth — the history of the many 

 gradual changes that have taken place in the form and the 

 extent of its lands and seas, as well as in its climate — and it 

 is these changes that have determined in large part the dis- 

 tribution of its animals. All the facts discovered show rea- 

 sonable natural succession; nowhere can we find evidences 

 of sudden creation; and all are simply explained by the 

 theory of evolution. 



LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED 



Brauer, August. Tiergeographle und Abstammungslehre, in 

 Die Abstammungslehres, Jena, 1911. 



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