DIFFICULTIES ABOUT EVOLUTION.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 141, 17 June 1929, Page 6

DIFFICULTIES ABOUT EVOLUTION.

I have read many books and listened to many exponents of the theory of evolution, but they all seem to miss what seems to me an insurmountable argument against it. AU life, we are told, has evolved from the lowest form of living matter, and the process has been gradual and constant, spreading over millions of years. If this is so, why have we not to-day visible evidence in life of all the gradual changes that have taken place? If the theory of evolution were true there would be to-day all grades of life from the single-cell organism up to man in an unbroken chain, the difference between each change of life being so little as to be almost imperceptible. To illustrate what I mean, I would mention the cinema. Everyone knows that the moving pictures are made up of numbers of individual photographs* the difference of movement in each photograph being almost impossible to detect. If the theory of evolution were correct, this almost imperceptible difference would be in evidence in all grades of animal life from man down. Assuming man evolved from the monkey, where are all the different stages between man and monkey? Or, if a dinosaur evolved from a lizard* or an elephant from the nearest resemblance in animal life, probably a hippopotamus, where are all the millions of animais showing the gradual change from the hippopotamus to the elephant 1 Assuming the change from monkey to man, or from the nearest animal specie to the elephant, took a million years, can evolutionists tell me "why this break? Why did evolution stop for a million years? This shatters their main argument that evolution is gradual and constant. We have to-day with us still the lowest forms of life in single-cell organisms, and if the theory of evolution were true, and it was in process all the time, we would have in evidence to-day all the different grades in ail unbroken line of species almost indiscernible one from the other from the lowest organism up to man. There are marked and distinct characteristics between all species of animals and in their wild life the different breeds do not intermingle, but maintain their individual characteristics. The nibre I reflect on it, the more convinced I am that all animal life was created, male and female, in their distinctive species, which they have maintained throughout all ages. THOUGHTFUL.