THE OEIGIN OF MAN 21 



of living creatures about us, from insects too small 

 to be seen with the naked eye to the largest mammals, 

 and, yet, not one is in transition from one species to 

 another; every one is perfect. It is strange that 

 slight similarities could make him ignore gigantic dif- 

 ferences. The remains of nearly one hundred species 

 of vertebrate life have been found in the rocks, of 

 which more than one-half are found living to-day, and 

 none of the survivors show material change. The 

 word hypothesis is a synonym used by scientists for 

 the word guess ; it is more dignified in sound and more 

 imposing to the sight, but it has the same meaning as 

 the old-fashioned, every-day word, guess. If Darwin 

 had described his doctrine as a guess instead of calling 

 it an hypothesis, it would not have lived a year.* 



Probably nothing impresses Darwin more than the 

 fact that at an early stage the foetus of a child cannot 

 be distinguished from the foetus of an ape, but why 



^Dr. Etheridge, Fossiologist of the British Museum, says:^ 

 " Nine-tenths of the talk of Evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not 

 founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This 

 museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views." 



Prof. Beale, of King's College, London, says: "In support of 

 all naturalistic conjectures concerning man's origin, there is not 

 at this time a shadow of scientific evidence." 



Prof. Fleischmann, of Erlangen, says : " The Darwinian theory 

 has in the realms of Nature not a single fact to confirm it. It is | 

 not the result of scientific research, but purely the product of ' 

 the imagination," 



The January issue of " Science," 1922, contains a speech de- 

 livered at Toronto last December by Prof. William Bateson of 

 London before the American Association for the Advancement 

 of vScience. He says that science has faith in evolution but 

 doubts as to the origin of species. 



