[Gutenberg 2927] • The Darwinian Hypothesis

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About The Darwinian Hypothesis by Thomas Henry Huxley

This is a book written by Prof. Huxley not long after Darwin's "Origin of Species" first edition was published. The theme of the book is to point out by logical analysis that either you accept Darwin's theory, or you are left with nothing to point to. There are no other theories or hypotheses that can explain the huge body of factual evidence of the organic world that Darwin and others had collected. For example the Creationist's response to the question "why should horses have a useless bone in each leg that corresponds exactly to a particular finger or toe of all other vertebrates" that "it so pleased the Creator to make it so" was simply nonsense. Huxley has been justly called "Darwin's Bulldog," because of his role in convincing all thinking people that Darwin's theory had to be correct. Huxley was known to famously admit that when he first read the theory, he hit himself in the forehead and remarked "how is it possible that I didn't think of that, it is so obvious."