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“As to the Divine Design, is it not an instance of incomprehensibly and infinitely marvellous Wisdom and Design to have given certain laws to matter millions of ages ago, which have surely and precisely worked out, in the long course of those ages, those effects which He from the first proposed. Mr. Darwin's theory need not then to be atheistical, be it true or not; it may simply be suggesting a larger idea of Divine Prescience and Skill. Perhaps your friend has got a surer clue to guide him than I have, who have never studied the question, and I do not [see] that 'the accidental evolution of organic beings' is inconsistent with divine design—It is accidental to us, not to God.”
― John Henry Newman

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“To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant.”
― John Henry Newman

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“One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature," he answered.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

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“Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und große Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so günstig ist.”
― John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua - John Henry Newman (ANNOTATED) Full Version of Great Classics Work

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“[E]volution is not a cause, but the description of a process … Can we in any way explain the origin of species? Are we to suppose that each species, or what we regard as a species, originated in the fiat of an almighty power? Or are we to suppose that we are to go indefinitely backwards, and affirm that a chain of secondary causation is to be continued indefinitely backwards? … The treatment of evolution as a cause, capable of leading us on indefinitely, tends to shut out the idea of a First Cause; its treatment as a possible mode of sequence, leading us a step or two onwards, still leaves the mind directed towards a First Cause, though ‘Clouds and darkness are round about Him.’ [cf. Psalm 97] … Remember, Evolution does not mean a cause.”
― George Gabriel Stokes, Memoir and Scientific Correspondence of the Late Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart;, Sc; D., LL. D., D. C. L., Past Pres; R. S, Vol. 2

tags: causality, creation, creator, evolution

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