The Scientific Bases of Faith (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...Reasons in The view here stated has "the advantage of removing this View certam verJ' serious difficulties connected with the Divine Purpose of Creation. I refer especially to the existence of such animals as parasitic worms, which are as Avell adapted as any others to their mode of life, but have probably no sensation and certainly no consciousness, and inflict pain, disease, and death on animals that possess both sensation and consciousness. On the theory of the independent creation of every separate species, these can only be regarded as instruments of torture devised by Creative AVisdom. But if we believe that they are descended from species which were not parasitic, and have become selfadapted to their new habitats, their existence ceases to be anything more than a particular case of the question "why pain and disease are permitted at all. The same remark applies to what have been called unnatural, but would better be called immoral instincts: such as the working bees slaughtering the drones after they have fertilized the queen; the female spider endeavouring to devour the male as soon as she is fertilized; and the young cuckoo throwing the original tenants out of the nest to perish. It is surely easier to believe these instincts to be veiy peculiar and abnormal results of vital intelligence, than to believe each of them to be a special Providential endowment."2 Thear-At the present stage of the inquiry, the so-called argufrom De-ment from Design must change its name, and be called sign "?Ilt the argument from Intelligence. It has been admitted the argu-that physical science reveals no absolute purpose in crea ment from fton l, does reveal the presence of Intelligence: --lutein-.. 1 gence. unconscious orgamzing...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...Reasons in The view here stated has "the advantage of removing this View certam verJ' serious difficulties connected with the Divine Purpose of Creation. I refer especially to the existence of such animals as parasitic worms, which are as Avell adapted as any others to their mode of life, but have probably no sensation and certainly no consciousness, and inflict pain, disease, and death on animals that possess both sensation and consciousness. On the theory of the independent creation of every separate species, these can only be regarded as instruments of torture devised by Creative AVisdom. But if we believe that they are descended from species which were not parasitic, and have become selfadapted to their new habitats, their existence ceases to be anything more than a particular case of the question "why pain and disease are permitted at all. The same remark applies to what have been called unnatural, but would better be called immoral instincts: such as the working bees slaughtering the drones after they have fertilized the queen; the female spider endeavouring to devour the male as soon as she is fertilized; and the young cuckoo throwing the original tenants out of the nest to perish. It is surely easier to believe these instincts to be veiy peculiar and abnormal results of vital intelligence, than to believe each of them to be a special Providential endowment."2 Thear-At the present stage of the inquiry, the so-called argufrom De-ment from Design must change its name, and be called sign "?Ilt the argument from Intelligence. It has been admitted the argu-that physical science reveals no absolute purpose in crea ment from fton l, does reveal the presence of Intelligence: --lutein-.. 1 gence. unconscious orgamzing...

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United States

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October 2012

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October 2012

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246 x 189 x 10mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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322

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978-1-152-77413-1

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9781152774131

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1-152-77413-1



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