in 1861, at t of troversy, just sucurned up ure it also eet asingle discovery could hardly be considered conclusive.
But noing t t life and t found it yet because, for been preserved. It simply could not be otained. “t presentmust remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as a valid argument against tertained,” candidly, but o entertain an alternative possibility.
By ion ed—inventively but incorrectly—t peroo clear to lay dos and thus had preserved no fossils.
Even Dar friends roubled by tions.
Adam Sedgaken our ofales in 1831, said tas poor conjecture. Even Lyell concluded gloomily: “Daroo far.”
t. ence on s of geological time because ationist, evolutionary cgradually but suddenly. Saltationists (tin for “leap”) couldn’taccept t complicated organs could ever emerge in sloages. good, after all, is one-tent, only made sense if tate.
t as closely recalled a veryconservative religious notion first put for from design. Paley contended t if you found a pocket cantly perceivet it elligent entity. So it scomplexity s design. tion eentury,and it gave Darrouble too. “to tter to a friend. In t it “seems, I freely confess,absurd in t possible degree” t natural selection could produce sucrumentin gradual steps.
Even so, and to tion of ers, Dar only insisted tall c in nearly every edition of Origin epped up t of timeo alloion to progress, ually,” according to tist and orian Jeffrey Scz, “Darvirtually all t t still remained among tural orians andgeologists.”
Ironically, considering t Dared a mec become stronger or better or faster—in a ter—but gave noindication of migtised an important fla. Dar any beneficial trait t arose in one generation o subsequentgenerations, trengthe species.
Jenkin pointed out t a favorable trait in one parent become dominant insucceeding generations, but in fact ed to a tumbler of er, you don’t make tronger, you make it dilute solution into anoter, it becomes ill. In trait int