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(4) Present system of classification. 



(5) Accounts for fossil series. 

 Accounts for embryo repetition. 

 Accounts for geographic distribution. 



6. Evolution does not teach 



(1) The "ladder" line of descent. 



(2) The man-monkey descent. 



(3) That evolution leaves God out. 



NOTE. Darwin did not originate the evolutionary idea, at all, as 

 many seem to think; that was a very old belief. What he did was to 

 prove that natural selection was the means by which evolution was brought 

 about. There are doubtless other forces assisting natural selection in 

 carrying on this development, some of which are fairly well understood. 



