Religion and Science
1. The Method of Argument
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becomes clear to us when we consider that when an
animal gives birth to many offspring, the latter, far
from being uniform, are quite different from one
another. This difference further develops in the next
generations and goes on developing from
generation to generation according to natural
selection. After lakhs of generations this difference
increases to the extent that a small-necked sheep
becomes a long-necked giraffe. This concept is
considered so important that Haldane and Huxley,
the editors of
Animal Biology,
have coined the term,
‘Selection of Mutation’, for evolutionary changes.
It is this fourth criterion, which is cited to ‘prove’
the concept of evolution. That is, the supposition, or
its effects, need not have come within our direct
experience, but such observations have been made
as help us to make a logical inference of the truth of
the supposition, or, in other words, to verify the
truth of the hypothesis.
The advocates of the theory of evolution have not
yet, however, carried out any observations of or
experiments on the material bases of this theory.
For instance, they cannot show in a laboratory how
