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"The origin of the earth," geology schoolwork by Eve Drewelowe, March 1, 1922

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-6- 15 The biological objection is that the hypothesis does not allow for enough time for evolution. Darwin advanced a theory of evolution; Laplace and Kent advanced an hypothesis of the origin of the earth. A theory is more correct than a hypothesis because it is one step farther to its goal--fact. Because of these many objections, of which several taken separately almost completely disprove the hypothesis, the hypothesis has been loosing ground and favor among scientists. Anyway it has served its purpose in opening up the way for better and more advanced hypothesis which will in time either verify or disprove themselves and give rise to something better. 
The second, the Metoeritic hypothesis was advanced at some later time by Darwin and Lockyer. A metoer is a cold body in space, controlled by no body but readily influenced by and picked up by other bodies with which it comes in contact. This hypothesis is based on the idea that the solar system was developed out of a swarm of metoerites with enough gravity to hold them together. The earth was supposed to have been built up of occassional fragments of stony and metallic matter, called metoers entering from space and falling to the earth. In early days the growth is thought to have been very rapid and was still continuing very slowly, but all the time. "This motion, however simple and natural, may be dismissed without serious consideration, for the different directions of motion and the velocities of metoerites are such as to forbid the belief that the solar system, with its discoidal form and its harmonious motions, could have been formed that way." Darwin and Lockyer the original promoters of this theory thought that the solar system was a swarm of metoerites

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-6- 15 The biological objection is that the hypothesis does not allow for enough time for evolution. Darwin advanced a theory of evolution; Laplace and Kent advanced an hypothesis of the origin of the earth. A theory is more correct than a hypothesis because it is one step farther to its goal--fact. Because of these many objections, of which several taken separately almost completely disprove the hypothesis, the hypothesis has been loosing ground and favor among scientists. Anyway it has served its purpose in opening up the way for better and more advanced hypothesis which will in time either verify or disprove themselves and give rise to something better. The second, the Metoeritic hypothesis was advanced at some later time by Darwin and Lockyer. A metoer is a cold body in space, controlled by no body but readily influenced by and picked up by other bodies with which it comes in contact. This hypothesis is based on the idea that the solar system was developed out of a swarm of metoerites with enough gravity to hold them together. The earth was supposed to have been built up of occassional fragments of stony and metallic matter, called metoers entering from space and falling to the earth. In early days the growth is thought to have been very rapid and was still continuing very slowly, but all the time. "This motion, however simple and natural, may be dismissed without serious consideration, for the different directions of motion and the velocities of metoerites are such as to forbid the belief that the solar system, with its discoidal form and its harmonious motions, could have been formed that way." Darwin and Lockyer the original promoters of this theory thought that the solar system was a swarm of metoerites