 It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design? Contrivance: the adaptation of means to an end.  Studies in Theism - Page 275by Borden Parker Bowne - 1879 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Nature - 1874 - 280 pages
...and Omniscience there is a wide interval. And the distinction is of immense practical importance. It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design ? Contrivance... | |
 | Eustace R. Conder - Faith - 1877 - 476 pages
...published after his decease, has ventured on the startling, and I must add thoughtless, assertion that " it is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the kosmos is so much evidence against the omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design ? Contrivance:... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - Theism - 1879 - 460 pages
...perfection of power, and wisdom, and selfhood. We have insisted upon design and adaptation in na- , ture. This claim, also, is seized upon by the pantheist...objection as follows: — "It is not too much to say that every indication of design in the cosmos is so much evidence against the omnipotence of the designer.... | |
 | 1876 - 534 pages
...presumably in power, perhaps in wisdom, and not improbably n both. These are Mr. Mill's words — It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer (p. 176). If we commence our Bible... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - English literature - 1894 - 398 pages
...demon, it is because we need not suppose it to have been made by a Being of infinite power. ... It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design 1 Contrivance... | |
 | Theology - 1918 - 590 pages
...from design, far from establishing his omnipotence, is easily shown to be incompatible with it. " It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design ? Contrivance... | |
 | Ray Harbaugh Dotterer - God - 1917 - 100 pages
...from design, far from establishing his omnipotence, is easily shown to be incompatible with it. " It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design ? Contrivance... | |
 | Linda C. Raeder - Philosophy - 2002 - 418 pages
...interim basis, constituted [Mill's] chief amendment of the Comtean religion of humanity."16 Mill says: It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design? Contrivance:... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1875 - 552 pages
...omnipotent, he is not morally perfect. Under the former head we find this curious piece of reasoning : "It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so much evidence against the omnipotence of the Designer. For what is meant by Design 1 Contrivance... | |
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