 | New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pagine
...individuals are born." It is even further admitted, with rare candour, that the Darwinian hypothesis is not in itself inconsistent with the Theistic argument,...ultimate agency and directing power of a creative mind.'' Still the Duke of Argyll does not allow himself to be looked upon as an adherent of Darwin, his objections... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pagine
...that it is not atheistic. The Duke of Argyle says : "Ills not in itself inconsistent with the Theistie argument, or with belief in the ultimate agency and directing power of a creative mind." "Primeval Man," p. 4ii. '• So far, therefore, as belief in a Personal Creator is concerned, the difficulties... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1884 - 732 pagine
...changed, not once, but frequently ; not suddenly for the most part, perhaps wcA. • [ ( PRIMEVAL MAN. case, but slowly and gradually, and yet completely....adequately, described in the language of religion and theologv. " He who is the alone Author and Creator of all things," says the present Bishop of Salisbury,... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 pagine
...judgment with the Duke of Argyll, and to reiterate his affirmation, " It [the development hypothesis] is not in itself inconsistent with the theistic argument,...ordinary laws of animal and vegetable reproduction." If it could be proved that new species, as well as individuals, are produced by being born, it does... | |
 | Martin Robison Delany - 1991 - 106 pagine
...have descended from a single stock?" And why not? His Grace has truly said in another place quoted, "It is not in itself inconsistent with the Theistic...ordinary laws of animal and vegetable reproduction." Is it reasonable to suppose that there were necessarily original parents for all the varieties in every... | |
 | Ronald L. Numbers, John Stenhouse - 1999 - 316 pagine
...misunderstood, apparently, a statement he quoted from this aristocratic Calvinist: "It [Darwin's theory] is not in itself inconsistent with the Theistic argument,...ultimate agency and directing power of a Creative Mind." 39 The origin of races and color, according to Delany, lay in the differing complexions of Noah's three... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1870 - 552 pagine
...agency by which new individuals are-born ?" The Duke does not regard the development doctrine as, " in itself, inconsistent with the Theistic argument,...ultimate agency and directing power of a creative mind." The objections to it are scientific. In the first place, it " ascribes to known causes unknown effects,"... | |
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It is not in itself inconsistent with the Theistic argument, or with belief in the ultimate agency and directing power of a Creative Mind. This is clear, since we never think of any difficulty in reconciling that belief with our knowledge of the ordinary... 