 Biology takes her time from geology. The only reason we have for believing in the slow rate of the change in living forms is the fact that they persist through a series of deposits which, geology informs us, have taken a long while to make. If the geological...  Annual Report of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club - Page 84by Belfast Naturalists' Field Club - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Henry Woodward - Geology - 1878 - 638 pages
...fact that they persist through a series of deposits which, Geology informs us, have taken a long while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the...his notions of the rapidity of change accordingly." Professor Young, also, in his Presidential Address, British Association, Section C., speaks of Biologists... | |
 | Geological Society of London - Electronic journals - 1869 - 674 pages
...deposits which geology informs us have take while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the no will have to do is to modify his notions of the rapidity of cha cordingly. And I venture to point out that, when wo are told * Sir William Thomson implies (loc.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1870 - 444 pages
...fact that they persist through a series of deposits which, geology informs us, have taken a long while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the...of change accordingly. And I venture to point out that, when we are told that the limitation of the period during which living beings have inhabited... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...fact that they persist through a series of deposits which, geology informs us, have taken a long while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the naturalist will have to o is to modify his notions of the rapidity of change accordingly. And I venture to point out that,... | |
 | Robert Withers Memminger - Christianity - 1872 - 252 pages
...fact that they persist, through a series of deposits, which geology informs us have taken a long while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the...his notions of the rapidity of change accordingly." Geology, then, is responsible for all the discredit that has been thrown by science upon the Bible... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1880 - 408 pages
...persist through a series of deposits which, geology informs us, have taken a long while to make. If tlic geological clock is wrong, all the naturalist will...of change accordingly. And I venture to point out that, when \ve are told that the limitation of the period during which living beings have inhabited... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biology - 1894 - 428 pages
...fact that they persist through a series of deposits which, geology informs us, have taken a long while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the...naturalist will have to do is to modify his notions of the 'apidity of change accordingly. And I venture to point out that, when we are told that the limitation... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Science - 1894 - 628 pages
...series of deposits which geology informs us " have taken a long while to make. If the geo" logical clock is wrong, all the naturalist will have " to...notions of the rapidity of '' change accordingly." But I may be permitted to remark that a correction of this kind cannot be said to be unimportant in... | |
 | Karl Pearson - Games & Activities - 1897 - 416 pages
...fact that they persist through a series of deposits which geology informs us have taken a long while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the...his notions of the rapidity of change accordingly. Here we might suppose the onus of proof for or against natural selection might have been left to the... | |
 | Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell - Biologists - 1900 - 344 pages
...fact that they persist through a series of deposits which, geology informs us, have taken a long while to make. If the geological clock is wrong, all the naturalist will have to do is to modify his notion of the rapidity of change accordingly ; and I venture to point out that, when we are told that... | |
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