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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... spontaneous generation . As it has not been proved that inorganic matter is capable of originating living organisms , we may be excused for questioning whether the forces of nature , acting either from within or from without , could ...
... spontaneous generation . As it has not been proved that inorganic matter is capable of originating living organisms , we may be excused for questioning whether the forces of nature , acting either from within or from without , could ...
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... spontaneous generation from inorganic matter . He concedes that organic life had a beginning , and asserts that monera were developed by spontaneous generation at the bottom of the sea . Assertion , however , is not proof ; nor is it ...
... spontaneous generation from inorganic matter . He concedes that organic life had a beginning , and asserts that monera were developed by spontaneous generation at the bottom of the sea . Assertion , however , is not proof ; nor is it ...
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... spontaneous generation , we not only impose upon ourselves the task of proving that life can originate and actually has origi- nated in certain combinations of inorganic matter , but we take a long stride towards materialism . If we say ...
... spontaneous generation , we not only impose upon ourselves the task of proving that life can originate and actually has origi- nated in certain combinations of inorganic matter , but we take a long stride towards materialism . If we say ...
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... spontaneous generation . His hypothesis has to do , not with the cause of the phenomena , but with the mode of their manifestation , thus leaving the question of design untouched . Are we to conclude that the diversification of organic ...
... spontaneous generation . His hypothesis has to do , not with the cause of the phenomena , but with the mode of their manifestation , thus leaving the question of design untouched . Are we to conclude that the diversification of organic ...
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... spontaneous , ' sometimes it is called " an accidental variability . " The existence of the law has not been proved , however , but assumed . Are we not justified in asserting , ―The exist- ence of such a law should be established ...
... spontaneous , ' sometimes it is called " an accidental variability . " The existence of the law has not been proved , however , but assumed . Are we not justified in asserting , ―The exist- ence of such a law should be established ...
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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.