Religion and science, their relations to each other at the present day, 3 essays |
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... illustrations . It is not subtle , or refined , or abstruse . It deals with no difficult abstractions or generalisations . It is common sense , rather than metaphysics . And many of the instances in which the reasoning can be applied in ...
... illustrations . It is not subtle , or refined , or abstruse . It deals with no difficult abstractions or generalisations . It is common sense , rather than metaphysics . And many of the instances in which the reasoning can be applied in ...
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... illustration . Nor yet need I point out what much more serious difficulties the Design argument encounters when it is applied to the history of man himself , regarded as it now is by many as a long ascent from savagery . Now the ...
... illustration . Nor yet need I point out what much more serious difficulties the Design argument encounters when it is applied to the history of man himself , regarded as it now is by many as a long ascent from savagery . Now the ...
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... illustration of the watch : if we knew that a certain man had made many watches , some good ones , several indifferent ones , many scarcely worthy of the name , we should con- clude either that he cared little about making good watches ...
... illustration of the watch : if we knew that a certain man had made many watches , some good ones , several indifferent ones , many scarcely worthy of the name , we should con- clude either that he cared little about making good watches ...
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... illustration.1 So long as we look only at the revolution of our earth upon its axis by itself , we may see an appointment admirably adapted to animal life , but as soon as we consider this rotation as one example of a phenomenon to be ...
... illustration.1 So long as we look only at the revolution of our earth upon its axis by itself , we may see an appointment admirably adapted to animal life , but as soon as we consider this rotation as one example of a phenomenon to be ...
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... illustration . In like manner no future point of time could ever be reached unless the interval between that point and the present were finite . Now I think that we have here an example how an acute man may be misled by the ambiguities ...
... illustration . In like manner no future point of time could ever be reached unless the interval between that point and the present were finite . Now I think that we have here an example how an acute man may be misled by the ambiguities ...
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