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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... If there is no Personal God , then life , like matter and force , is an insoluble enigma . Once more : if evolution is to assume the role of omnipotence , it should show itself competent to evolve man's xii PREFACE .
... If there is no Personal God , then life , like matter and force , is an insoluble enigma . Once more : if evolution is to assume the role of omnipotence , it should show itself competent to evolve man's xii PREFACE .
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... once we have been induced to believe that creation has had a history we are irresis- tibly led to inquire after its method . In what way have new specific forms been produced ? To this question varying answers have been given . 1. New ...
... once we have been induced to believe that creation has had a history we are irresis- tibly led to inquire after its method . In what way have new specific forms been produced ? To this question varying answers have been given . 1. New ...
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... to do with the universe than if he did not exist . The clock being once wound up was left to tell off its fated periods . " Neither so do their witness agree . " pation of motion ; during which the matter passes from EVOLUTION . 25.
... to do with the universe than if he did not exist . The clock being once wound up was left to tell off its fated periods . " Neither so do their witness agree . " pation of motion ; during which the matter passes from EVOLUTION . 25.
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... maintains that there are no species which refuse to vary provided they are placed under conditions ' avorable to the production of variations , and he affirms that when once a species has begun to vary , EVOLUTION . 27.
... maintains that there are no species which refuse to vary provided they are placed under conditions ' avorable to the production of variations , and he affirms that when once a species has begun to vary , EVOLUTION . 27.
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... once a species has begun to vary , its varieties are more and more subject to variation . He asks , " How could a savage possibly know , when he first trained an animal , whether it would vary in succeeding genera . tions ? " Hence he ...
... once a species has begun to vary , its varieties are more and more subject to variation . He asks , " How could a savage possibly know , when he first trained an animal , whether it would vary in succeeding genera . tions ? " Hence he ...
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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.