 On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 2051888Full view - About this book
 | Michael Ruse - 2005 - 344 pages
...hand I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe & especially the nature of man, & to conclude that everything is the result of brute...or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance."12 But in the last two decades of his life, Darwin's religious belief faded into agnosticism.... | |
 | Michael G. Parker, Thomas M. Schmidt - 2005 - 206 pages
...particular case, but by the establishment of general laws. Darwin in his correspondence even once noted: I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from...or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance.40 and in his B notebook, written in the late 1830s, said: Astronomers might formerly have said... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 pages
...this, I see no necessity in the belief that the eye was expressly designed. On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...to conclude that everything is the result of brute force.33 It seems Darwin's view is that while the truth of natural selection does not prove that there... | |
 | Dale C. Allison - 2006 - 189 pages
...138:4). Compare the more subdued, less religious, but still analogous words of Charles Darwin: I cannot be contented to view this wonderful universe, and...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might... | |
 | William A. Dembski - 2006 - 358 pages
...hand I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe & especially the nature of man, & to conclude that everything is the result of brute...call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me. I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might... | |
 | Jonathan Wells - 2006 - 290 pages
...can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details." He was "inclined to look at everything as resulting from...left to the working out of what we may call chance." Darwin did not know the origin of new variations, but modern Darwinists believe that DNA mutations... | |
 | Michael Martin - 2006
...supporter, Darwin wrote, "I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed [emphasis added] laws, with the details whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance" (Darwin 1911: 105). Automatic processes are themselves often creations of great brilliance. From today's... | |
 | Intelligent Community The Intelligent Community, Barry Krusch - 2007 - 163 pages
...hand I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe & especially the nature of man, & to conclude that everything is the result of brute...left to the working out of what we may call chance. Charles Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin 8, 1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,... | |
 | Nathaniel C. Comfort - 2007 - 196 pages
...hand I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe & especially the nature of man, & to conclude that everything is the result of brute...or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance."15 AFTER DARWIN: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY It is well known that after the Origin of Species was... | |
 | William Sweet, Richard Feist - 2007 - 260 pages
...wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. ... On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe,...that everything is the result of brute force. ... I grieve to say that 1 cannot honestly go as far as you do about Design. 1 am conscious that I am in... | |
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