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Excerpt from The Evolution of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: A Series of Lectures Delivered Before the Yale Chapter of the Sigma 11 During the Academic Year 1916-1917
The problem of the origin of the earth is within the domain of scientific investigation, but as yet the pictures which may be drawn are varied. The vague outlines shift and change but become clearer with the growth of knowledge. Where the solution of a problem is not yet definitive and certain, the method of multiple working hypotheses Should be used. All facts and theories should be matched to these several hypoth eses to determine which one of them shall be selected and modified, and which shall meet the fate of the unfit. At the present stage of investigation any one View should not be regarded as established beyond question, even though the assembled evidence seems strongly to support it. In a single presentation, however, all hypotheses cannot be equally treated and each investigator, while recognizing the existence of other hypotheses, may properly emphasize that one which seems to him most in accordance with the various categories of facts and more firmly established inferences.
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