ABSTRACT
A study of the organic world in which people live demonstrates clearly that animals and plants do not show a confused admixture of forms but display a separation into groups which can usually be defined with sufficient certainty. The greater or less similarity also with other animal types was well recognized, but since it was seen how they continued to exist together but separated, and crossed either never or unwillingly or unfruitful, it struck no one that similarity, carried further, could, and must, be based on descent. When the Gemüsz, into which earth’s strata had been changed by the Flood, dried again, the crust burst and there were heavings and sinkings. Whoever accepts the genetic connection of all living things must seek for an ‘hypothesis of descent,’ and since with genetic connection a transformation is essential, also an ‘hypothesis of transformation’ must be sought for.
