| Bible - 1874 - 824 pages
...been answered in the affirmative by the highest intellects that have ever lived." Again he says : " An omniscient Creator must have foreseen every consequence which results from the law imposed by him" ; and again, referring to natural laws: "An omnipotent and omniscient Creator ordains... | |
| James Samuelson, William Crookes - Science - 1868 - 664 pages
...a great difficulty, in alluding to which I am aware that I am travelling beyond my proper province. An omniscient Creator must have foreseen every consequence...Creator intentionally ordered, if we use the words in an ordinary sense, that certain fragments of rock should assume certain shapes so that the builder... | |
| Science - 1868 - 676 pages
...a great difficulty, in alluding to which I am aware that I am travelling beyond my proper province. An omniscient Creator must have foreseen every consequence...Creator intentionally ordered, if we use the words in an ordinary sense, that certain fragments of rock should assume certain shapes so that the builder... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1877 - 848 pages
...the use to which the fragments may li - put, their shape may be strictly said to be accidental. . . . Can it be reasonably maintained that the Creator intentionally ordered, if we use the word in any ordinary sense, that certain fragments of rock should assume certain shapes, so that the... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1871 - 324 pages
...great difficulty, in alluding to which I am aware that I am travelling beyond my proper province." " An omniscient Creator must have foreseen every consequence...shapes, so that the builder might erect his edifice ? If the various laws which have determined the shape of each fragment were not predetermined for the builder's... | |
| St. George Jackson Mivart - Evolution - 1871 - 336 pages
...imperfections. Thus he says : " Can it be reasonably maintained that the Creator intentionally ordered " " that certain fragments of rock should assume certain...shapes, so that the builder might erect his edifice ? " Why, surely every theist must maintain that in the first foundation of the universe — the primary... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1876 - 544 pages
...a great difficulty, in alluding to which I am aware that I am travelling beyond my proper province. An omniscient Creator must have foreseen every consequence...shapes so that the builder might erect his edifice? If the various laws which have determined the shape of each fragment were not predetermined for the builder's... | |
| Ransom Bethune Welch - Positivism - 1876 - 320 pages
...been answered in the affirmative by the highest intellects that have ever lived." Again he says : " An omniscient Creator must have foreseen every consequence which results from the law imposed by him " ; and again, referring to natural laws : " An omnipotent and omniscient Creator... | |
| Bible - 1877 - 820 pages
...a great difficulty, in alluding to which I am aware that I am travelling beyond my proper province. An omniscient Creator must have foreseen every consequence...shapes, so that the builder might erect his edifice ? If the various laws which have determined the shape of each fragment were not predetermined for the builder's... | |
| James Baird McClure - Rationalism - 1880 - 180 pages
...been answered in the affirmative by the highest intellects that have ever lived." Again he says : " An omniscient creator must have foreseen every consequence which results from the law imposed by him." And again: "An omnipotent and an omniscient creator ordains everything and foresees... | |
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