But an immense lapse of time will have been necessary in all such cases for the modified descendants of a common progenitor to have spread from a single centre to such widely remote and separated areas.
If they did not do so, the three closely connected genera of the Menyantheae and the several trimorphic species of Oxalis must have inherited their structure from a common progenitor.
There is good evidence that the art of shooting with bows and arrows has not been handed down from anycommon progenitor of mankind, yet as Westropp and Nilsson have remarked (25.
The assertion is that a repetition of the same general plan of construction throughout a class of animals can only be explained upon the hypothesis of their descent from a common progenitor.
But what kind of imperfection is that which is involved in the idea of God creating a common progenitor, lying at the base of Darwin’s series of evolution, possessing all the causes of all effects in nature, without designing those effects?
If all was placed in a common progenitor, brought into existence by a miracle, as Darwin teaches, how is design to be excluded from nature?
The homological construction of the whole frame in the members of the same class is intelligible, if we admit their descent from a common progenitor, together with their subsequent adaptation to diversified conditions.
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