EVOLUTION
Sir.—lf all plants and animals came into existence at the same time, then we should find the remains of them In the same system of rocks. We woura expect to find evidence of mammals, binds, reptiles, fishes, branchiopoda, algae, ferns, pines, palms, oaks, in the Cambrian system of rocks. We shall now go to the stone booit of nature to see what is written in this true book. The remains of all animals and plants arc not found together in the same system of rocks. Brachiopoda are first round in tne Cambrian system of rocks fishes in the Siluvian, reptiles in the Carboniferous birds in the Jurassic, mammals in trm Cretaceous. Similarly with plants, wo find the first appearance of algae In Cambrian rocks, ferns in the Silurian pines in the OW. Red Sandstone, palms and oaks in the Cretaceous. We notice the onward and upward progress of animals and plants from the Cambrian to the Pleistocene. This progress is still going on, and is in favour of evolution. Sir A. Geikie, in his “Text Book of Geology,” voL 11, page 846, states: “It must be conceded that on the whole, the testimony of the rocks is in favour of the doctrine of evolution. ” SCIENCE November 5.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19991, 7 November 1927, Page 6
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208EVOLUTION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19991, 7 November 1927, Page 6
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