54 EVOLUTION AND NATURAL THEOLOGY. 



suggests that species may have been exception- 

 ably stable for the last 60,000 years or so. 



Many objections have been made to Darwin- 

 ism, some utterly futile, and others demanding 

 the gravest attention. Various writers are 

 opposed to Biological Evolution altogether, 

 while others, though accepting Evolution, do 

 not think that the theory of Natural Selection 

 is sufficient, alone, to cover all the facts. Some 

 of these objections we will notice here, be- 

 ginning with the theological argument that 

 Evolution is opposed to the Bible. 



Anything which is opposed to the previous 

 convictions of the multitude, whether directly 

 connected with Eeligion or not, is nearly sure to 

 be met with this outcry, which is essentially the 

 same as that encountered by Astronomy and 

 Geology when they were passing from the stage 

 of speculative or empirical to that of deductive 

 sciences. When the science of Biology arrived 

 at the same stage it could not expect to escape 

 the same opposition. 



Dr. Bree has published an "Exposition of 

 Fallacies in the Hypothesis of Mr. Darwin," in 

 which he claims a right for the " scientific 

 believer " to challenge scientific theories which 



