Science and Religion_A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon

Science and Religion_A Very Short Introduction by Thomas Dixon

Author:Thomas Dixon [Dixon, Thomas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science, Religion, Philosophy, History
ISBN: 9780199295517
Amazon: 0199295514
Goodreads: 2190593
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-08-02T00:00:00+00:00


When it came to the concluding section of the book, Darwin reiterated Whewell’s view that God acted in a law-like rather than a miraculous fashion. ‘To my mind,’ Darwin wrote,

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 … When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Silurian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled.



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