| Samuel Butler - 1924 - 426 páginas
...Darwin, " will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1924 - 288 páginas
...for millions on millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds ; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass as the works of the Creator are to those of man? " l Mr. Darwin does not in this passage deny design, or cunning,... | |
| Woodbridge Riley - 1926 - 376 páginas
...generation will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with unerring skill each improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical... | |
| Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1898 - 880 páginas
...process go on for millions of years, and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds, and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass as the works of the Creator are to those of man?" 2077. What earlier songs of the Mother Play have dealt with... | |
| George Levine - 1991 - 334 páginas
...organ might have been tried out. One sees — Darwin concludes — how superficial the analogy is: "May we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?" (p. 219). The case against teleology is thus set in the... | |
| Marcello Pera - 1994 - 272 páginas
...on for millions on millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior as to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?" Here too the pattern is the same:... | |
| Arne A. Wyller - 1996 - 288 páginas
...improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years; during each year on millions of individuals. . . . May we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed superior to one of glass? [Italics added] We must notice here the complete absence of mathematical... | |
| Peter A. Ensminger - 2008 - 288 páginas
...will multiply them almost infinitely, and natural selection will pick out with almost unerring skill each improvement. Let this process go on for millions of years; and during each year on millions of individuals of many kinds; and may we not believe that a living optical... | |
| William E. Phipps - 2002 - 234 páginas
...Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man? . . . May we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?"45 Darwin suggested that God's method is too sophisticated... | |
| Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse - 2004 - 216 páginas
...image.... Let this process go on for millions on millions of years... on millions of individuals;... and may we not believe that a living optical instrument...thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to those of man?' Who or what the "Creator" is here is left artfully, disingenuously... | |
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