El autor se dirige a un p\u00fablico general y no a un p\u00fablico cient\u00edfico. Adem\u00e1s queda claro que \u00e9l no se considera dentro del conjunto de los naturalistas, sino que es m\u00e1s bien, alguien especial: una especie de enviado con una misi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0828.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n As a record of a former state of things, I have retained in the foregoing paragraphs, and elsewhere, several sentences which imply that naturalists believe in the separate creation of each species; and I have been much censured for having thus expressed myself. But undoubtedly this was the general belief when the first edition of the present work appeared. I formerly spoke to very many naturalists on the subject of evolution, and never once met with any sympathetic agreement. It is probable that some did then believe in evolution, but they were either silent or expressed themselves so ambiguously that it was not easy to understand their meaning. Now, things are wholly changed, and almost every naturalist admits the great principle of evolution. There are, however, some who still think that species have suddenly given birth, through quite unexplained means, to new and totally different forms. But, as I have attempted to show, weighty evidence can be opposed to the admission of great and abrupt modifications. Under a scientific point of view, and as leading to further investigation, but little advantage is gained by believing that new forms are suddenly developed in an inexplicable manner from old and widely different forms, over the old belief in the creation of species from the dust of the earth.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Como recuerdo de un estado anterior de cosas, he conservado en los p\u00e1rrafos precedentes y en otras partes varias frases que implican que los naturalistas creen en la creaci\u00f3n separada de cada especie, y se me ha censurado mucho por haberme expresado as\u00ed; pero indudablemente era \u00e9sta la creencia general cuando apareci\u00f3 la primera edici\u00f3n de la presente obra. En otro tiempo habl\u00e9 a muchos naturalistas sobre el problema de la evoluci\u00f3n, y nunca encontr\u00e9 una acogida simp\u00e1tica. Es probable que algunos creyesen entonces en la evoluci\u00f3n; pero guardaban silencio o se expresaban tan ambiguamente, que no era f\u00e1cil comprender su pensamiento. Actualmente, las cosas han cambiado por completo, y casi todos los naturalistas admiten el gran principio de la evoluci\u00f3n. Hay, no obstante, algunos que creen todav\u00eda que las especies han producido de repente, por medios completamente inexplicables, formas nuevas totalmente diferentes; pero, como he intentado demostrar, pueden oponerse pruebas importantes a la admisi\u00f3n de modificaciones grandes y bruscas. Desde un punto de vista cient\u00edfico, y en cuanto a llevar a ulteriores investigaciones, con creer que de formas antiguas y muy diferentes se desarrollan de repente, de un modo inexplicable, formas nuevas, se consigue poqu\u00edsima ventaja sobre la antigua creencia en la creaci\u00f3n de las especies del polvo de la tierra.<\/em><\/p>\n \n Lectura aconsejada:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" El autor se dirige a un p\u00fablico general y no a un p\u00fablico cient\u00edfico. Adem\u00e1s queda claro que \u00e9l no se considera dentro del conjunto de los naturalistas, sino que es m\u00e1s bien, alguien especial: una especie de enviado con una misi\u00f3n. \u00a0828. \u00a0 As a record of a former state of things, I have retained in the foregoing paragraphs, and elsewhere, several sentences which imply that naturalists believe in the separate creation of each species; and I have been much censured for having thus expressed myself. 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