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ORIGINATION OF THE HUMAN RACE
(Circa. 5,00,000 B.C.)
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According
to Charles Darwin, God created all living species through Evolution, and
not by separate acts. Though some of his arguments in support of his theory
seem to be cogent and logical, they do not furnish any decisive proof
of the theory of descent, to which there are many valid objections. The
chief among them are:
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The
original single cell from which all species are said to have been
developed, ought to have come into existence only by an act of God
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Attribution
of intellectual faculties to Nature is arbitrary, illogical and unscientific.
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The
gulf between even the highest living anthropoid apes and man is unbridgeable
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“The persistent search for the “missing
link”, which may be called the biological approach to the solution of
the place of man's origin, has been inspired by Darwin's theory of the
descent of man from a pithecoid (ape-like) ancestor by incessant struggle
for existence, the survival of the fittest as a result of the struggle,
so aptly described by Tennyson as “Nature red in tooth and claw,” and
the consequent perpetuation of small accidental variations of the characteristics
of the individuals, the accumulation of which enabled one species to evolve
into another. Under the impulsion of this conception of the origin of
man, the Pithecanthropus erectus - ape - man who stood erect on his feet
- became the object of scientific search. Between 1891 and 1894 Dr.Eugene
Dubois discovered on the east bank of the Solo, a stream which rises among
the volcanic hills in the centre of Java, a skull-cap, a
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