Your sources suck.
This is from
Science and common sense: an Aristotelian excursion
By William Robin Thompson
Published 1937
Source
Amazing that things may have changed a little in 72 years. I can find nothing on this guy so I do not know if he was speaking with any authority or knowledge. Also, I cannot find the book online so I cannot see the context of the quote.
If you used
this as your source. They are wrong. If you look for the Conklin book they claim it comes from you will find the quote does not exist in that book. It is sad to see someone with the scientific credentials of Emerson Thomas McMullen, distorting science to fit his own radical religious agenda. I find it curious that he has a long list of peer reviewed articles but this posting is not peer reviewed as is no other creationist writings he has made..
Remember what we have told you many times. Creationists lie and present fiction as fact.
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts