Theism and Evolution: An Examination of Modern Speculative Theories as Related to Theistic Conceptions of the UniverseA.C. Armstrong & son, 1886 - 461 pages |
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Page xii
... means the only obstacle to the acceptance of atheistic forms of evolution . If all life evolved from a few primordial germs , can we conceive the possibility of results so numerous and so diverse from causes so insignificant ? Can an ...
... means the only obstacle to the acceptance of atheistic forms of evolution . If all life evolved from a few primordial germs , can we conceive the possibility of results so numerous and so diverse from causes so insignificant ? Can an ...
Page xvi
... means of differences of climate , and social conditions and the like , and all these changes are pro- gressing in unbroken continuity through our own age . into the future , just as they have through all past stages of human history ...
... means of differences of climate , and social conditions and the like , and all these changes are pro- gressing in unbroken continuity through our own age . into the future , just as they have through all past stages of human history ...
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... mean by evo- lution , the process which is always an integration of matter and a dissipation of motion " ( p . 286 ) ; " Evolu- tion is definable as a change from an incoherent homo- geneity to a coherent heterogeneity " ( p . 360 ) ...
... mean by evo- lution , the process which is always an integration of matter and a dissipation of motion " ( p . 286 ) ; " Evolu- tion is definable as a change from an incoherent homo- geneity to a coherent heterogeneity " ( p . 360 ) ...
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... mean to bring into being by the simple exercise of power , without pre - existing material and with- out process - absolute creation . In this sense none but God can create . Did He originate the earth as it now is from nothingness , or ...
... mean to bring into being by the simple exercise of power , without pre - existing material and with- out process - absolute creation . In this sense none but God can create . Did He originate the earth as it now is from nothingness , or ...
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... mean to bring into being , through the agency of secondary causes and under estab- lished laws , that which did not previously exist - deriva- tive creation . Were the different species of plants and animals evolved , independent of a ...
... mean to bring into being , through the agency of secondary causes and under estab- lished laws , that which did not previously exist - deriva- tive creation . Were the different species of plants and animals evolved , independent of a ...
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Page 106 - Lo, the poor Indian! Whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 229 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 195 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Page 109 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.
Page 40 - Nevertheless it is necessary to remember that there is a wider Teleology, which is not touched by the doctrine of Evolution, but is actually based upon the fundamental proposition of Evolution.
Page 124 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Page 89 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man.
Page 28 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 125 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
Page 466 - evidence of things not seen," in the fulness of Divine grace ; and was profound on this, the greatest concern of human life, while unable even to comprehend how the " inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its orbit" could be the cause of the change of the seasons.