If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life all at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural selection.

It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life. Who can explain the what is the essence of the attraction of gravity?

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.