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gists who are said by anti-evolution- 

 ists to be opposed to evolution, but, 

 vv^hen the ground for these statements 

 is scrutinized, it is commonly found 

 that the authority named questions 

 natural selection (Darwinism), but 

 not descent with modification, or evo- 

 lution, in the ordinary sense of the 

 word. In a recent newspaper a prom- 

 inent Boston pastor names "some 

 scientists who at least call in question 

 the loudly asserted proof of evolu- 

 tion/* These names include those of 

 J. P. Lotsy and William Emerson 

 Ritter both of whom have criticized 

 Darwinism but, to the best of my 

 knowledge, are firm believers in 

 evolution. If by Paul Kamerer is 

 meant Paul Kammerer and by E. B. 

 McBride, E. W. McBride, the same 

 statement applies to these zoologists 

 as to the other two scholars named. 

 Hence this list includes several well 



