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Title: Biology; the story of living things
Identifier: biologystoryofli00hunt (find matches)
Year: 1937 (1930s)
Authors: Hunter, George W. (George William), 1873-1948; Walter, Herbert Eugene, b. 1867; Hunter, George W. (George William), 1902-
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Publisher: New York, Cincinnati (etc. ) American book company
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TIME SPENT (PALEONTOLOGY) 481 their gradual downfall and elimination, naturally calls for more than the work of a day. When one visits a museum, like the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and there encounters the unbelievable genuine framework of some towering dinosaur, he is compelled to admit that it must have taken a great deal of time to evolve such a creature by any possible process of slow successive adaptations. I8fc-
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Comparative sizes of man and dinosaur. Moreover, not one kind of dinosaur alone but many diverse kinds, which have taken time enough to branch o& from the original stock, whatever that was, have, without the least shadow of doubt, also lived and died. Probably the slow processes that have led up to such bizarre manifestations of former life in many cases ran concurrently, like jail sentences, but even so, enormous quantities of time must have been demanded for the accomplishment of these known results. It does not seem likely that a sane and reasonable Creator ever made one of these dinosaurs de novo, "out of whole cloth." They bear every mark of having been repeatedly cut over and reassembled out of preceding garments. There is no evidence, moreover, that dinosaurs came to a sudden catastrophic end all at once. It took long periods of additional time finally to undo the gigantic task, and to bring about the wreckage and gradual extinction of these elaborate creatures. The age-long episode of the rise and fall of the dinosaur dynasty, for example, which endured for some millions of years, has been

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