Smithson's Theory of Special CreationVictor publishing Company, 1911 - 144 עמודים |
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עמוד 106 - 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.
עמוד 71 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
עמוד 15 - ... of any but what are termed secondary causes, in the production of all the phenomena of the universe; that, in view of the intimate relations between Man and the rest of the living world, and between the forces exerted by the latter and all other forces, I can see no excuse for doubting that all are coordinated terms of Nature's great progression, from the formless to the formed — from the inorganic to the organic — from blind force to conscious intellect and will.
עמוד 106 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
עמוד 110 - ... upon which I am led to this conclusion, — that could hardly be done properly in half a dozen lectures on that part alone; — I must content myself with saying that I do not at all believe that these are the oldest forms of life. I turn to the experimental side to see what evidence we have there. To enable us to say that we know anything about the experimental origination of...
עמוד 13 - The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of blind chance.The understanding revolts at such a conclusion...
עמוד 106 - ... all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth may be descended from some one primordial form.
עמוד 13 - Few persons feel any anxiety from the impossibility of determining at what precise period in the development of the individual, from the first trace of a minute germinal vesicle, man becomes an immortal being ; and there is no greater cause for anxiety because the period cannot possibly be determined in the gradually ascending organic scale.
עמוד 13 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
עמוד 17 - Life is only a physical phenomenon. All the plants and animals, with man at their head, are to be explained, in structure and life, by mechanical or efficient causes, without any appeal to final causes, just as in the case of minerals and other inorganic bodies.