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"Ian Barbour said that Darwin’s theory of evolution burst the bounds of the rigid classifications that had frozen the great chain of being and that Darwin did to Aristotle’s biology what Newton did to Aristotle’s physics.4 But the revolution in thought triggered by the theory of evolution was more profound than simply loosening the categories of organic existence to allow a gradual transformation of organisms. Ernst Cassirer summarized this revolution as having “destroyed the arbitrary limits between the different forms of organic life. There are no separate species; there is just one continuous and uninterrupted stream of life.”5 Western thinkers have not yet absorbed the meaning of this change in viewpoint in any fundamental way." (Vine Deloria – The Metaphysics of Modern Existence)p72
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