| John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 280 sayfa
...Leaving this remarkable speculation to whatever fate the progress of discovery may have in store for it, I think it must be allowed that, in the present state...probability in favour of creation by intelligence. It is equally certain that this is no more than a probability; and that the various other arguments... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1874 - 328 sayfa
...whatever late the progress of discovery may have in store for it, I think it must be allowed that, iu the present state of our knowledge, the adaptations...probability in favour of creation by intelligence. It is equally certain that this is no more than a probability ; and that the various other arguments... | |
| 1875 - 808 sayfa
...Leaving this remarkable speculation to whatever fate the progress of discovery may have in store for it, I think it must be allowed that, in the present state...in nature afford a large balance of probability in favor of creation by intelligence." With all his deductions and extenuations, Mr. Mill has thus conceded... | |
| 1875 - 842 sayfa
...the ttrenglh of even this argument has been very much cut down by Darwin's doctrine ; but that " in the present state of our knowledge, the adaptations...probability in favour of creation by intelligence." Under the head of attributes, the old difficulties about the presence of evil of course come into view... | |
| 1875 - 620 sayfa
...complete demonstration, thinks "it must be allowed that, in the present state of our knowledge, they afford a large balance of probability in favour of creation by intelligence."* In reference to the true logical worth of this argument, he says : "The Design argument is not drawn... | |
| John Morley - 1877 - 468 sayfa
...modified acceptance of the argument from Design. ' I think it must be allowed,' he says, ' that in the present state of our knowledge, the adaptations...probability in favour of creation by intelligence.' To begin with, one cannot help feeling that Mr. Mill's reasoning on this critical point in the discussion... | |
| 1877 - 274 sayfa
...Theism, has declared as the final outcome of a life of a prodigious amount of thought: — "On the whole, it must be allowed that in the present state of our knowledge the adaptations in Nature afford a balance of probability in favour of creation by intelligence." * The old " argument of design " if... | |
| George John Romanes - 1878 - 232 sayfa
...progress of discovery may have in store for it," and it by no means follows that "in the present state of knowledge the adaptations in nature afford a large...probability in favour of creation by intelligence." For whatever we may think of this special theory as to the mode, there can be no longer any reasonable... | |
| George John Romanes - 1878 - 228 sayfa
...progress of discovery may have in store for it," and it by no means follows that "in the present state of knowledge the adaptations in nature afford a large...probability in favour of creation by intelligence." For whatever we may think of this special theory as to the mode, there can be no longer any reasonable... | |
| Henry Calderwood - 1878 - 338 sayfa
...account for it, 150; argument from consent of mankind, 155 ; from Consciousness, 161; from Design, 167; the adaptations in nature afford a • large balance...probability in favour of creation by intelligence, 174; Divine attributes, 176; immortality, 196; Revelation, 212. Conclusion—'The rational attitude... | |
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