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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. Ex library but pages are in excellent condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In countries having a Christian tradition two chief explanations are offered for the presence of human beings on the earth. One is natural and the other supernatural. The first is of course Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection which 120 years after having been first propounded survives relatively intact and is accepted with some modifications by most thinking people. It remains the orthodox explanation for the multiplicity of species on the earth and for the rise of increasingly complex forms leading to man. Such speculative opposition as it meets in the scientific community is largely concerned with detail. For one and a half thousand million years single-celled organisms the blue-green bacteria were the sole inhabitants of the earth. This means that these microscopic beings have been around longer than any other life form. Simplicity can usually be equated with durability. All present-day living things are descended from these micro-organisms and it is a nice question as to whether the gulf which separates a blue- green bacterium from a man is greater than that which separates it from a grain of sand. The second half of life’s 3000 million year presence on this planet saw the relatively rapid evolution of all kinds of plant and animal life which now exist and of the many forms which have become extinct. As evolution advanced its pace increased. From blue-green bacteria to sponges took 2000 million years. From tree- shrews to man took a mere three million. In other words mind started exploding on the planet. That in brief outline is the scientific account of our origins. (LL)