facts. If that doctrine were true, there would be no lower order of
animals after so many millions of years of growth. All would have been
large and of a high order like others. Since we find a majority of all
animal species less in size than the fly, there has been little growth
in most species, and in many, none at all. The amoebae, one celled
animals, smaller than a small pin-head, have existed unchanged since
life began. If plants and animals all developed from a one-celled
animal, such as the amoeba, why did not the amoeba develop? Or, if
some developed, why not all? Certainly there would not remain a great
multitude of species in the microscopic world.

Of many species small and large, we have many fossils preserved but
_no transitional forms_. The archaeopteryx, a bird with a
feathered tail, is the only alleged transitional form between the
reptiles and the birds. Only two specimens of this same animal have
been found. This could easily be an exceptional species of created
birds differing no more from the normal bird than the ostrich or
humming bird. If there were transitional forms we ought to have them
by the millions. No transitional forms have been found between
reptiles and mammals; and we have seen that there are no reliable
forms between man and mammals. The numerous missing links make a chain
impossible. Evolution is not simply growth or change, but the
development of all species from one germ.



12. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION


Geographical Distribution, another witness claimed by the