Dr. Jim reads Chapter 10 of Darwin's Origin of Species,

On the Imperfection of the Geological Record (Part I to p. 156)

On the Imperfection of the Geological Record (Part II to end of Chapter)

"We shall, perhaps, Best perceive the difficulty of connecting species by numerous, intermediate fossil links by asking ourselves whether future geologists will be able to prove that are different breeds of cattle, horses and dogs are descended from a single stopped or from several aboriginal stocks. This could be effected only by the discovery in a fossil state of numerous gradations; and such success is improbable in the highest degree." (p. 160)

"The great oceans are mainly areas of subsidence, the great archipelagoes areas of oscillations, and the continents areas of elevation. But we have no reason to assume that things have thus remain from the beginning of the world. At period long antecedent to the Cambrian epoch, continents may have existed where Oceans are now spread out; and oceans may have existed where our continence now stand. Nor should we be justified in assuming that if, for instance, the bed of the Pacific Ocean were now converted into a continent, we should there find sedimentary formations in a recognizable condition older than the Cambrian strata, supposing such to of been formally deposited; for it might well happen that strata some miles nearer to the center of the earth, which had been pressed on by an enormous weight of water, might've undergone far more metamorphic action than strata nearer to the surface." (p. 165)

Pangea



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