 | Nikos Kazantzakis - Philosophy - 2012 - 144 pages
..."unperceived causes" and "accidental causes" that can only be conjected; and so on. Darwin states that "nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...class by utility or by the doctrine of final causes' (emphasis added). 23. Darwin's evolutionary-biological reductionism encountered resistance from other... | |
 | Boaventura de Sousa Santos - Law - 2007 - 472 pages
...305, 359, 384-85, 402, 416, 420). Creationism does not meet the scientific requirements then accepted: Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...being, we can only say that so it is; — that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;... | |
 | Intelligent Community The Intelligent Community, Barry Krusch - 2007 - 163 pages
...various degrees of modification, is partially revealed to us by our classifications. Origin, p. 364-5 Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...being, we can only say that so it is; — that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;... | |
 | B. a. M. DIV Richard Pittack, Richard B. Pittack - Science - 2011 - 180 pages
...on "morphology," mentions Professor Richard Owen who, as a creationist, held to the pattern belief: "The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly...being, we can only say that so it is; - that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;... | |
 | Christopher H. K. Persaud - Religion - 2007 - 421 pages
...of irreverence and conceit relative to his dispute with creationist ideas. In such a regard he said, "Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. . .On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is: -... | |
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Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly admitted by Owen in his most interesting... 
