Evolution Basics: Darwin’s Early Observations on Biogeography
For Darwin, both of these observations (that oceanic islands
lacked terrestrial mammals, and that endemic species on islands
were most similar to a species on the closest mainland) had the
same explanation: his hypothesis that endemic, oceanic species
were the modified descendants of a colonizing species from the
nearest continent. Evolution and Christian Faith Grantees
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Scientific Commentary on Genesis 7:11 Although committed to the
principle of sola Scriptura, Calvin recognized that the Bible
would have been written in terms its original recipients would
have understood. Calvin inherited the medieval cosmology of his
time, a way of viewing the world heavily influenced by Greek
thought and one which was