F1577    Periodical contribution:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.   Text   Image   PDF

Ornithological Notes. It is worth noting how the terms creation and centres of creation are still retained in B. 1845 a comment often made by others. But it has not, I think, been noted that the creationist passages centering round his Galapagos experiences, originated earlier in the discussion on the ranges of bird distribution, see B. 1839, p. 353; B. 1845, p. 289; Ornithological Notes MS. p. 69 and Appendix. As Sir Gavin de Beer has pointed out in the Evolutionary Notebooks (Bull. B.M. (N.H.)), Darwin had

CUL-DAR205.3.208-209,211    Abstract:    [Undated]   Temminck `Coup d'oeil ...'   Text   Image

Relation of character of quadrupeds to surroundings, is explicable when same species occur on the opposite sides, as Brisbane Sicily c. - but what [illeg] relation on creationist - but there [rounding] obviously in this troubled region of the world studded with orders, is connection on my theory, for they might formerly have been connected the same parent species extended. Ask why Gilolo, Ternate c shd have Aus ones, Celebes, Borneo c have Asiatic genera. In E. Ind - Arch. depths distances

F1556    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

suggest that many of the forms might have been borne from nearest land, but if peculiar, he calls in creationist,—as such island rises in height c., he still more calls in creation. The creationist tells one, on a illegible spot the American spirit of creation makes Orpheus and Tyrannus and American doves, and in accordance with past and extinct forms, but no persistent relation between areas and distribution, Geologico-Geograph.-Distribution. 1 The following is written on the back of a page of

F1555    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species, a sketch written in 1842. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

the Creationist in the case of a species, must believe that one act of creation is absorbed into another! CONCLUSION. Such are my reasons for believing that specific forms are not immutable. The affinity of different groups, the unity of types of structure, the representative forms through which f tus passes, the metamorphosis of organs, the abortion of others cease to be metaphorical expressions and become intelligible facts. We no longer look an on animal as a savage does at a ship2, or other

F1556    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

the Creationist in the case of a species, must believe that one act of creation is absorbed into another! CONCLUSION. Such are my reasons for believing that specific forms are not immutable. The affinity of different groups, the unity of types of structure, the representative forms through which fœtus passes, the metamorphosis of organs, the abortion of others cease to be metaphorical expressions and become intelligible facts. We no longer look an on animal as a savage does at a ship2, or other

F1556    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Origin, Ed. i., Ch. XIV Ed. vi. begins with a similar statement. In the present Essay the author adds a note:— The obviousness of the fact i.e. the natural grouping of organisms alone prevents it being remarkable. It is scarcely explicable by creationist: groups of aquatic, of vegetable feeders and carnivorous, c., might resemble each other; but why as it is. So with plants,—analogical resemblance thus accounted for. Must not here enter into details. This argument is incorporated with the text in

F1555    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species, a sketch written in 1842. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

not drawn by physiologists, and is only implied by some by their general manner of writing. These facts, though affecting every organic being on the face of the globe, which has existed, or does exist, can only be viewed by the Creationist as ultimate and inexplicable facts. But this unity of type through the individuals of a group, and this metamorphosis of the same organ into other organs, adapted to diverse use, necessarily follows on the theory of descent2. For let us take case of Vertebrata

F1556    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1909. The foundations of The origin of species. Two essays written in 1842 and 1844. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

the Vertebrata the limbs were metamorphosed spinal processes, and that in all the species throughout the class the limbs displayed a unity of type1. These wonderful parts of the hoof, foot, hand, wing, paddle, both in living and extinct animals, being all constructed on the same framework, and again of the petals, stamina, germens, c. being metamorphosed leaves, can by the creationist be viewed only as ultimate facts and incapable of explanation; whilst on our theory of descent these facts all

CUL-DAR6.16-50    Draft:    [1842.05.00--1842.06.00]   Sketch of Species Theory — rough copy much corrected   Text   Image

A =number of species not related to capabilities of the country= furthermore not always those best adapted perhaps explained by creationists by changes in progress. Although geologist Creationist can explain by help of geology much, how can he in the explain the varying marked relation of past present in some area, the varying relation in other cases, between past present, the relation of the different parts of same great area if isld of totally different organization to adjoining continents

CUL-DAR6.16-50    Draft:    [1842.05.00--1842.06.00]   Sketch of Species Theory — rough copy much corrected   Text   Image

mongrels hybrids, as can be shown in a long series of facts. It is strikingly seen in cases of instincts, where the minds of the two species or races become blended together. In both cases if the half-bred be crossed with either parent for a few generations, all traces of the one parent form is lost (as Kolreuter in two Tobacco species almost sterile together), so that the Creationist in the cases of a species, must believe one act of creation is absorbed into another!   Recapitulation (very

CUL-DAR205.9.185-187    Note:    1844.03.20   Prof Forbes says he thinks that all Gasteropods pass through state of   Text   Image

outside, then in middle of the bed all with rougher outside then at top all with very protuberant roughness. Most wonderful On common Creationist view, one must look at this roughness as some relation or effect, like the colouring of insects in the Phillippines, shows the external influences do produce some marked effects. There is no gradation between their forms but if there had been a gradual change, there sets suddenly seized preserved, effect would be this Grand case Forbes tells me bed

CUL-DAR72.32-53,56    Abstract:    [Undated]   16 / Johnston A.K `Berghaus physical atlas' [1841-1848]   Text   Image

holds good, considering how little some of the older forms are really known, considering that we have not in all the formations corresponding deep shallow water deposits. This fact is very important for me, harmonises with descent. Creationist might say that it depends on same conditions, but moreover trifling sectional characters can hardly have reference to conditions, but may to descent how rarely, how never, can same conditions throughout two enormous Geological Periods, is the case as far

CUL-DAR205.2.117    Note:    1855.03.00   With respect to the inhabitants of small islds — if they do always   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [117] (18)           March. 1855 With respect to the few inhabitants of small isld – if they do always belong to very diverse types in each class, we have to explain this, first assuming formerly land continuous; then it is clear that restricted conditions can best support very diverse types; if not continuous it shows that very many must be imported compared to those which can ultimately exist. With respect to endemic forms, by creationist simple act

CUL-DAR205.11.116    Abstract:    1860   Rowell G. A. communication to Ashmolean Society 12 November 1860 `[reference incomplete]'   Text   Image

wide field for the reflective faculties of mankind . Curious to speculate how many millions young Cuckoos young Molothrus have perished that the creationist now might blunder over an explanation. — Ch X

F1725    Periodical contribution:     [Darwin, C. R.] 1863. [Review of] Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. By Henry Walter Bates, Esq. Transact. Linnean Soc. vol. XXIII. 1862, p. 495. Natural History Review 3 (April): 219-224.   Text   Image   PDF

By what means, it may be asked, have so many butterflies of the Amazonian region acquired their deceptive dress? Most naturalists will answer that they were thus clothed from the hour of their creation—an answer which will generally be so far triumphant that it can be met only by long-drawn arguments; but it is made at the expence of putting an effectual bar to all further inquiry. In this particular case, moreover, the creationist will meet with special difficulties; for many of the mimicking

F1452.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

that I cannot explain why one rat has a longer tail and another longer ears, c. But he seems to muddle in assuming that these parts did not all vary together, or one part so insensibly before the other, as to be in fact contemporaneous. I might ask the creationist whether he thinks these differences in the two rats of any use, or as standing in some relation from laws of growth; and if he admits this, selection might come into play. He who thinks that God created animals unlike for mere sport

F1452.2    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 2. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

creationist will meet with special difficulties; for many of the mimicking forms of Leptalis can be shown by a graduated series to be merely [page] 39

A336    Book:     Gray, Asa. 1888. Darwiniana: Essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism. New York: D. Appleton.   Text   Image   PDF

307 depends. These take it instead of making it, to a certain extent. What is the bearing of these remarkable adaptations and operations upon doctrines of evolution? There seems here to be a field on which the specific creationist, the evolutionist with design, and the necessary evolutionist, may fight out an interesting, if not decisive, triangular duel. [page break

F1461    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life told in an autobiographical chapter, and in a selected series of his published letters [abridged edition]. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

creationist's point of view: By what means, it may be asked, have so many butterflies of the Amazonian region acquired their deceptive dress? Most naturalists will answer that they were thus clothed from the hour of their creation an answer which will generally be so far triumphant that it can be met only by long-drawn arguments; but it is made at the expense of putting an effectual bar to all further inquiry. In this particular case, moreover, the creationist will meet with special difficulties

A874    Book:     Huxley, Leonard. 1921. Charles Darwin. London: Watts.   Text   Image   PDF

a creationist until converted, a score of years later, by the Origin itself. The discoverer had to build anew. It was evident that the many facts he had observed on the voyage could only be explained on the supposition that species had been gradually modified. But it was equally evident that neither the action of the environment nor the will of the organisms, especially in the case of plants, could account for the innumerable and beautiful adaptations of organisms to their habits of life

F1566    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1933. Charles Darwin's diary of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

some of their later discussions after expeditions made in common, evidence of which can be found in their parallel accounts, must sometimes have led Darwin nearer the truth by FitzRoy's overstatement of the creationist point of view. Such discussions must have helped to form opinions, but it may well be that overt expression was delayed by Darwin's very real affection and admiration for Robert FitzRoy. FitzRoy has never received the recognition that is his due. It is true that later he was

F2112    Periodical contribution:     Barlow, Nora. 1935. Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands. Nature 136 (7 September): 391.   Text

discernible in the different editions of Voyage of the Beagle . Even in the second edition of 1845, the words creation and creative force are used in the Galapagos discussion in the traditional sense. Darwin took no pleasure in overthrowing preconceived doctrines; he entered the new road cautiously, determined to pave it with solid accumulated evidence. Probably a certain deference to Capt. FitzRoy's views, emphatically creationist, helped to delay the unfolding of Darwin's divergent opinions. In

F1571    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press.   Text   Image   PDF

passed, FitzRoy became more and more a passionate believer in the literal truth of the first chapters of Genesis, whilst Darwin's thoughts were fixed on the vast geological ages, far out-spanning the time therein allotted to the creation of the world. Would not FitzRoy's over-emphasis on the creationist point of view have drawn Darwin to a closer scrutiny of the whole question? Possibly his allegiance to his old friend may even have helped to delay the publication of all the accumulated evidence in

F1571    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1945. Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle. London: Pilot Press.   Text   Image   PDF

, 13, 49, 113, 121, 127, 128, 139, 146 Shropshire, 142 Simon's Bay, 141 Slavery, 36, 161 2 Smith, Dr. Andrew, 254 South America, 108, 116, 119, 120, 122, 125, 144 5, 179 , western coast, 223 4, 238 South Seas, 122 Spanish delay, 213 , ladies, 78, 168 St. Helena, 136 7, 254, 257, 260 St. Jago (Santiago), 107, 115, 118, 226, 228 Species, creationist doctrines, 1 , immutability of, 1 , geographical ranges of, 177 9, 185, 262 , problems of, 239, 246, 259 Stokes, John Lort, Mate and Assistant Surveyor

A587    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1985. Charles Darwin in Western Australia: A young scientist's perception of an environment. Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press.   Text

seems that even by the time he reached Australia, he was still, in part of his mind at least, a creationist,64 although he was trying to reconcile the facts that he had been accumulating for the previous four years with conventional doctrine. [January 19 1836, Near Walerawang, New South Wales] I had been lying on a sunny bank, and was reflecting on the strange character of the animals of this country as compared to the rest of the world. An unbeliever in everything beyond his own reason might