Neither did it help me to be told by an eminent anatomist that species had succeeded one another in time, in virtue of a 'continuously operative Creational law'.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell
Their faith in the fullness of the annals leads them to regard all breaks in the series of organic existence, or in the sequence of the fossiliferous rocks, as proofs of original chasms and leaps in the course of nature-signs of the intermittent action of the Creational force, or of catastrophes which devastated the habitable surface.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell
When we reflect, therefore, on the fractional state of the annals which are handed down to us, and how little even these have as yet been studied, we may wonder that so many geologists should attribute every break in the series of strata and every gap in the past history of the organic world to catastrophes and convulsions of the earth's crust or to leaps made by the Creational force from species to species, or from class to class.
"The Antiquity of Man"
Charles Lyell