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Sir,-In your issue of September 10, J.D.McD. writes: "The fact of evolution, of course, has not been sensibly disputed for half a century." If he is using "evolution" in the ordinary sense of the word, as signifying "the origin of the living world from one or a few forms by a process of gradual transformation," then he is either bluffing or grossly ignorant. Evolution in this sense is not a fact, but a theory, and it has been rejected by such men as Vialleton and Lemoine, whose scientific credentials are
as good as those of any evolutionist, and their arguments, in my opinion, a good deal better. Has J.D.McD. read Vialleton or the Dewar-Shelton controversy, Is Evolution Proved?
G.H.
D.
(Palmerston North).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 5
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126UP FROM THE SLIME New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 793, 1 October 1954, Page 5
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