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Updated: May 9, 2025
He in fact says, in so many words, that the actual distribution of species in the past "seems to have been a consequence of preceding conditions." And he is forced to this conclusion by his virtual abandonment of plant-migration, and the alleged means of seed-distribution.
Not that we want any explanation, but that their theory of plant-migration stands sadly in need of one. The theory which the Bible genesis suggests to us is fully adequate to the explanation wanted. It explains not only why these alpine flora appear where they do, but why they cannot appear anywhere else.
But let us see into what an inextricable labyrinth of difficulty we are led by this theory of plant-migration from the equatorial to the sub-arctic zone, and vice-versa, and even beyond the equator to the sub-antarctic zone, and still vice versa.
Thus we should have some few species identically the same in the northern and southern temperate zones, and on the mountains of the intermediate tropical regions." We are sorry to spoil so ingenious a theory as this to account for plant-migration from the temperate zones north to the corresponding zones south.
And he will do this, not because he has any faith in the present theories of plant-migration, nor in the necessary distribution of seeds, but because he will study his favorite science with reference to latitude, elevation, climate, physical characteristics, rain-fall, soil-constituents, and other influencing conditions of plant-life.
Before proceeding to consider the probable duration of the several geographical epochs, called glacial periods, on which their theory of plant-migration depends, or considering the evidence touching these glacial periods, we will state their position in regard to these possible migrations as briefly and concisely as we know how. Mr.
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