Author: Asa GrayPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Natural Science and Religion
Author: Asa GrayPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Natural Science and Religion; Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College
Author: Asa GrayPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290260695
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Natural Science and Religion
Author: Asa GrayPublisher:
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Category : Religion and science
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Natural Science and Religion
Author: Asa GrayPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483170797
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Excerpt from Natural Science and Religion: Two Lectures Delivered to the Theological School of Yale College As a student who has devoted an ordinary lifetime to one branch of natural history, in which he is supposed to have accumulated a fair amount of particular experience and to have gained a general acquaintance with scientific methods and aims, as one, moreover, who has taken kindly to the new turn of biological study in these latter years, but is free from par tisanship, - I am asked to confer with other and younger students, of another kind of science, in respect to the tendencies of certain recently developed doctrines, which in schools of theology are almost everywhere spoken against, but which are everywhere permeating the lay mind whether for good or for evil - and are raising questions more or less perplexing to all of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Natural Science and Religion
Author: Asa GrayPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508790549
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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In 1880 he published "Natural Science and Religion," two lectures delivered to the Theological School of Yale College, before a critical audience, who listened with the deepest interest to what was, in some points, his most advanced view of natural selection. We need not dwell on a subject about which so much has lately been written by far abler pens than ours. Briefly stated, Gray was probably the best expounder of Darwinian principles, — meaning thereby those actually advocated by Darwin himself, and excluding the wild deductions attached to the original theory by those who deserve the name of Darwinissimists rather than Darwinists, — although he himself regarded natural selection as a less efficient cause than it was assumed to be by Darwin. His influence as an exponent of Darwinism was due partly to the admirable clearness and candor of his reviews, and his interesting way of putting things; for his fertile imagination was constantly discovering apt similes to illustrate otherwise dry arguments. It was also due in part to his known caution and conservatism, and his professed Christian faith. If an avowed accepter "of the creed commonly called the Nicene" saw nothing in Darwinism which implied atheism, or was opposed to the idea of design on the part of the Creator, surely one might, at least, listen to his account of the development theory with safety. To his hearers at New Haven, in 1880, he said: "Natural selection by itself is not an hypothesis, nor even a theory. It is a truth, — acatena of facts and direct inferences from facts .... There is no doubt that natural selection operates; the open question is, what do its operations amount to. The hypothesis based on this principle is, that the struggle for life and survival of only the fittest among individuals, all disposed to vary and no two exactly alike, will account for the diversification of the species and forms of vegetable and animal life, — will even account for the rise, in the course of countless ages, from simpler and lower to higher and more specialized living beings." He gave it as his opinion that natural selection is, on the whole, a good working hypothesis, but does not explain how wholly new parts are initiated, even if the new organs are developed little by little. —Memorial of Asa Gray [1888]
Natural Science and Religion
Author: Asa GrayPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781358437335
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Natural Science and Religion
Author: Asa GrayPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Natural Science and Religion
Author: Asa GrayPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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The Comparative Reception of Darwinism
Author: Thomas F. GlickPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226299775
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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'The majority of the chapters deal with the reception accorded Darwin's work in specific countries: England, the United States, Germany, France, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, and the Arab countries. Several chapters, however, also investigate the response to Darwinism made by specific social circles--such as social scientists in Russia and the United States
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