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	Darwin's Descent of Man
		Darwin’s theory of the descent of man from the ape or some other of the monkey tribe depends on his theory of the origin of species by means of natural selection.
		Darwin’s books with some care, and, though not an absolute stranger to the subject he treats, or to the facts he narrates, we are a little surprised that even a professed scientist could put forth such a mass of unwarranted inductions and unfounded conjectures as science.
		Darwin’s theory, is, as say the lawyers, in possession, and therefore to be held as true until the contrary is proved.
	orestesbrownson.com /darwin.html (3380 words)

	Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Darwin had to show how this was explained by his theory of sexual selection, and was now working to include this with ape ancestry and evolution of morality and religion in a new book which he now decided to call The Descent of Man.
		Darwin's neighbour Lubbock had been elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone in February 1870 and Darwin lobbied him to get a question added to the census to find if married cousins had as many surviving children as unrelated parents, but when it came up in July, Lubbock's amendment caused furious debate and was heavily defeated.
		Darwin reacted positively to a tract by the American Francis Abbott proposing "the extinction of faith in the Christian Confession" and a new humanist "Free Religion" for the "spiritual perfection of the individual and the spiritual unity of the race".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darwin_from_Descent_of_Man_to_Emotions (3335 words)

	Darwin vs Intelligent Design.
		The fact is that in attempting to judge his theory for religious analysis purposes, they do not consider the vast scientific progress in genetics since Darwin's time.
		It was not a new idea with Darwin, that species developed from other species based on competitive survival within the stresses of an environment, but it was Darwin, after a lifetime of study and thought, who wrote the "Origin of the Species" and presented his theoretical argument to the public.
		Darwin's theory, some say and perhaps rightly so, is a flimsy description of a hole-ridden idea full of inconsistences, guesswork and opinion.
	www.onelife.com /evolve/darwin.html (2765 words)

	Orestes Brownson Society - Darwin's Descent of Man
		Darwin offers no proof of it. Because only the stronger survive, it by no means follows that these in any series of ages give rise to a new and distinct species, that these stronger individuals acquire any new characteristics, or that they lose any of the characteristics of their original species.
		This sufficiently refutes Darwin’s whole theory. He does not prove the origin of a new species either by natural or artificial selection; and, not having done that, he adduces nothing that does or can warrant the induction, that the human species is developed from the quadrumanic or any other species. In reading Mr.
		Darwin’s theory, is, as say the lawyers, in possession, and therefore to be held as true until the contrary is proved. It is not enough, then, for Mr.
	www.orestesbrownson.com /index.php?id=24 (356 words)

	A Call to Reason: Charles Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Creationists have ever been eager to pounce on the fact that Darwin was never the first to come up with the theory of evolution, and indeed it is well-known that his first public presentation of his ideas was shared with Alfred Russel Wallace who developed the same theory of natural selection independently of Darwin.
		Darwin was brought aboard as an unpaid naturalist upon the recommendation of John Stevens Henslow, a Cambridge botanist.
		Independently of the other theorists who postulated evolutionism, Darwin had remarked from his observations that living organisms were beautifully adapted to their environments and that such adaptations could only have been possible through a modification of each of the observed species.
	calltoreason.org /darwin.html (2203 words)

	DARWIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Darwin has placed the subject [of Natural History] on a different basis of that of all his predecessors, and he has brought to the discussion a vast amount of well-arranged information, a convincing cogency of argument, and a captivating charm of presentation.
		Darwin's use of such an approach reveals his philosophy: to persuade an audience that a theory was conceivable was as good as demonstrating it scientifically.
		Darwin’s methodology was seen as suspect by the scientific community of his day partially because of his penchant to speculate, but even more so due to his inability to substantiate his theories empirically.
	www.georgiasouthern.edu /~jzarrell/DARWIN.html (6266 words)

	Schulers Books (Facts and Arguments for Darwin - 1/20)
		It possesses a value quite independent of its reference to Darwinism, due to the number of highly interesting and important facts in the natural history and particularly the developmental history of the Crustacea, which its distinguished author, himself an unwearied and original investigator of these matters, has brought together in it.
		F.M. When I had read Charles Darwin's book 'On the Origin of Species,' it seemed to me that there was one mode, and that perhaps the most certain, of testing the correctness of the views developed in it, namely, to attempt apply them as specially as possible to some particular group of animals.
		If Darwin's opinions are false, it was to be expected that contradictions would accompany their detailed application at every step, and that these, by their cumulative force, would entirely destroy the suppositions from which they proceeded, even though the deductions derived from each particular case might possess little of the unconditional nature of mathematical proof.
	www.schulers.com /books/fr/f/Facts_and_Arguments_for_Darwin (647 words)

	Darwin’s real message: have you missed it?
		Darwin knew that his notion, being utter planlessness, could not possibly involve any sort of purposive progress, which is the romanticized notion of evolution held by so many of its believers today (especially theists).
		In fact, it is likely that this is why he did not, himself, use the word ‘evolution’; until his last book in 1881, when he gave in to the by then popular term applied to his concept.
		Darwin was employed as the gentleman companion to the captain (with scientific work as an accepted sideline) because he was of sufficient social standing for the aristocratic Fitzroy, who would otherwise have had to eat alone and suffer great solitude, according to the conventions of the time.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v14/i4/darwin.asp (2746 words)

	Botany online - Public: C. DARWIN: The Descent of Man - Selection in Relation to Sex - Chap. 9
		It is not known that male crustaceans fight together for the possession of the females, but it is probably the case; for with most animals when the male is larger than the female, he seems to owe his greater size to his ancestors having fought with other males during many generations.
		This fact shews that in the Amphipoda, an order low in the scale, the males and females recognise each other, and are mutually attached.
		Canestrini draws the same conclusion from the fact that the males of certain species present two forms, differing from each other in the size and length of their jaws; and this reminds us of the above cases of dimorphic crustaceans.
	www.biologie.uni-hamburg.de /b-online/e36_descent/descent_chap9.htm (4606 words)

	If Darwin Could See Us Now
		Darwin understood that if any bird, animal, or plant were found to have complex and interdependent operating systems that were all essential for the survival of the species, then it could not possibly have evolved over time.
		Were he alive today, Charles Darwin, an honest and objective scientist, would recognize that his theory of evolution has been disproved by his own stated criteria—the discovery of many plants, animals, and birds that are irreducibly complex.
		Were it not for the fact that the sponge-like device squeezes oxygenated blood into his brain for this emergency response, while the valves in his neck reopen to allow blood flow from the heart to resume, the giraffe would perish.
	www.bulletininserts.org /Darwin.html (838 words)

	DARWINISM: SCIENCE OR PHILOSOPHY? Chapter 3
		I am simply unconvinced by the arguments for descent and by the philosophy of science that Professor Ruse and others invoke to make their case for it.
		The fact is that common descent is not a fact, and Professor Ruse is letting his philosophical predilections about the nature of acceptable science drive his conclusions about biological history.
		Indeed, even supposedly invincible arguments from molecular homologies depend for their efficacy upon a priori certainty that similarity cannot be the product of common principles of design.
	www.leaderu.com /orgs/fte/darwinism/chapter3.html (3315 words)

	Descent of Man - Chapter 16 - Charles Darwin - Read Print
		I may here premise, first, that the several cases or rules graduate into each other; and secondly, that when the young are said to resemble their parents, it is not meant that they are identically alike, for their colours are almost always less vivid, and the feathers are softer and often of a different shape.
		This fact is another striking instance of the law that secondary sexual characters are often widely different in closely-allied forms, though it is a very rare circumstance when such differences relate to the female sex.
		Whether or not the two rules generally hold good, we may conclude from the facts given in the eighth chapter, that the period of variation is one important element in determining the form of transmission.
	www.readprint.com /chapter-2202/Charles-Darwin (11592 words)

	Domesticating Darwin
		Darwin himself filled three chapters of The Descent of Man with arguments that the mental and moral faculties of human beings were derived from similar features of animals.
		Because he was determined to establish human continuity with animals, Darwin frequently wrote of "savages and lower races" as intermediate between animals and civilized people.
		Darwinism was valuable to anthropologists like Boas, Benedict, Kroeber, and Mead because it did so much to discredit religious authority, and thus seemed to leave humans free to chart their own course in a world without restrictions.
	www.origins.org /articles/johnson_domesticatingdarwin.html (1531 words)

	XFACTS
		Sometimes such consensus "facts" endure for a short time (Isaac Newtons assumption that the speed of light was a relative measure lasted only 200 years), while others endure like barnacles on the underside of our awareness (the universe doggedly expands beyond every finite measure given for it).
		So old, in fact, it went back nearly to the point of coalition, 4.5 billion years ago, when the Sun had ignited and the protoplanets had taken the general shapes and positions they maintain today.
		Consider the facts as we know them to be, not what we are misled into believing by those we trust to correctly inform us.
	xfacts.com /darwin2.htm (3267 words)

	Was Darwin Right
		Darwin said in his book on the Origin of Species that "a fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question".
		Ernst Haeckel, Darwin's popularizer in Germany, claimed that a cell was a 'simple lump of aluminous combination of carbon.
		Dr Gary Parker in his book "Creation facts of Life" suggests that the different strata of the geological column represent different ecological niches that were washed into sediments during a global flood.
	wasdarwinright.org /conclusions-f.htm (2311 words)

	Newton and Darwin and Wallace and "false analogies"
		Newton and Darwin and Wallace and "false analogies"
		Speaking of Darwinism, there is observation and mathematics involved in determining mutation ratios, and genetics is opening further observational doors to inner genetic changes, and making it possible to read the differences between genomes like geologists read the fossil evidence in the stratigraphic record.
		While Darwin in his opus quotes Blyth on a few points, notes Eiseley, he does not cite the papers that deal directly with natural selection, even though it is clear he read them.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /~articles/darwin_dishonesty.html (1567 words)

	URBANOWICZ ON DARWIN/September 1996
		Charles Darwin was an extremely important individual for a variety of reasons: the data he collected, the experiments he conducted, and the theories he proposed influenced a variety of disciplines, from anthropology to zoology as well as ecology, geology, and the general social sciences.
		Certain researchers have suggested that Darwin suffered from psychosomatic problems resulting from problems with his father; my interpretation, however, is that Darwin was bitten by a bug, infected by the bug, and he had the heartiest respect for his father who was a sensitive individual as well as a cautious businessman.
		Darwin was essentially confined to his home at Down as a result of his illness from his South American research and he really did not take part in the great public and scientific debates that came about with the publication of Origin.
	www.csuchico.edu /~curban/Darwin/DarwinSem-S95.html (17104 words)

	Origins and Silly Putty -- Evolution or Creation ---- Faith Facts: A Christian Apologetic
		One is to look at the facts, test the hypothesis, and see where it leads you—even if you don't like it.
		But many are now questioning whether evolutionary dogma may have used a second definition—to start with a definition of naturalism, and look only at the pieces of evidence which fit that philosophy.
		The purpose of this essay is to survey several books on the topic, and to present their arguments about the growing problems for evolution.
	faithfacts.gospelcom.net /ev_origins.html (434 words)

	Amazon.com: Darwins Proof: The Triumph of Religion over Science: Books: Cornelius G. Hunter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Unfortunately, most of the text is bogged down in a welter of arguments, argument fragments and biological facts whose relevance to Hunter's overall message is too often unclear.
		And that makes the situation a bit paradoxical, since evolutionists on the one hand claim to be depending solely on the facts of nature and on the other have to assume a certain view of God to make their arguments work.
		The God of Darwinism is a God whose primary concern is the pleasure of his creation, and who is preferred to be distant rather than having anything to do with the unpleasentness of this world.
	www.amazon.com /Darwins-Proof-Triumph-Religion-Science/dp/1587430568 (3233 words)

	Science
		Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller is a classic work of literature that can be enjoyed by all.
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	Darwin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To have maintained in the position of a master, one side of a question for thirty years, and then deliberately give it up, is a fact to which I much doubt whether the records of science offer a parallel.
		To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree.
		A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question; and this is here impossible.
	www.overcomeproblems.com /darwin.htm (1415 words)

	Positive Atheism's Big List of Charles Darwin Quotations
		It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science.
		When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.
		About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorize; and I well remember someone saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/darwin.htm (896 words)

	Evolution News & Views: Chadwell, Darwin and Scopes All Agree That Students Should Critically Analyze Evolution
		Pete Chadwell, a graphic artist in Bend, Oregon understands what so many Darwinists don't: students are being short changed in their science education when they learn only half the story about evolution.
		Darwin himself would support this approach to teaching evolution.
		If you are on his side, it’s an aesthetic joy to watch the survival-of-the-fittest line crunch and crumble.
	www.evolutionnews.org /2006/07/chadwell_darwin_and_scopes_all.html (542 words)

	Kessinger Publishing
		Wright, John W. Fact and Fancy in Spiritualism, Theosophy and Psychical Research
		Olston, Albert B. Facts and Fancies for the Curious from the Harvest-Fields of Literature A Melange of Excerpta
		Facts In Mesmerism With Reasons For A Dispassionate Inquiry Into It
	www.kessingerpub.com /searchresults_booktitle.php?Letter=F (162 words)

	Facts and Arguments for Darwin by Fritz Muller - Free eBook
		The arrangements connected with aerial respiration, therefore, could not be inherited from a common ancestor, and could scarcely be accordant in their construction.
		If there were any such accordance not referable to accidental resemblance among them, it would have to be laid in the scale as evidence against the correctness of Darwin's views.
		I shall show hereafter how in this case the result, far from presenting such contradictions, was rather in the most complete harmony with what might be predicted from Darwin's theory.
	manybooks.net /titles/mullerfretext04fcrgd10.html (102 words)

	Darwin On The Fossil Record in ZhurnalWiki
		In Chapter VI ("Difficulties on Theory") of The Origin of Species Charles Darwin reflects on the challenges that his hypothesis must overcome, and begins with the confession:
		Those who think the natural geological record in any degree perfect, and who do not attach much weight to the facts and arguments of other kinds given in this volume, will undoubtedly at once reject my theory.
		For my part, following out Lyell's metaphor, I look at the natural geological record, as a history of the world imperfectly kept, and written in a changing dialect; of this history we possess the last volume alone, relating only to two or three countries.
	zhurnal.net /ww/zw?DarwinOnTheFossilRecord (318 words)

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