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... PROOF , 59 IV . NATURE IS BUT THE NAME FOR AN EFFECT WHOSE CAUSE IS GOD , 96 V. THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER , 131 VI . OBJECTIONS TO THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER EXAMINED , 169 VII . MORAL ARGUMENT - TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY , · VIII ...
... PROOF , 59 IV . NATURE IS BUT THE NAME FOR AN EFFECT WHOSE CAUSE IS GOD , 96 V. THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER , 131 VI . OBJECTIONS TO THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER EXAMINED , 169 VII . MORAL ARGUMENT - TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY , · VIII ...
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... PROOFS ,. 423 XXXVII . A PRIORI PROOF NOT PROOF FROM A CAUSE , 424 XXXVIII . SOME A PRIORI ARGUMENTS , • • 425 XXXIX . RECENT SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND THEIS- TIC PROOF , XL . ON SOME OBJECTIONS , . . 433 437 THEIS M. LECTURE I. ISSUES ...
... PROOFS ,. 423 XXXVII . A PRIORI PROOF NOT PROOF FROM A CAUSE , 424 XXXVIII . SOME A PRIORI ARGUMENTS , • • 425 XXXIX . RECENT SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY AND THEIS- TIC PROOF , XL . ON SOME OBJECTIONS , . . 433 437 THEIS M. LECTURE I. ISSUES ...
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... proof . They may draw away from nature , and from before the eyes of men , a veil which covers and conceals the proof ; they may be a record of facts which powerfully confirm and largely supple- ment what proof there is in the universe ...
... proof . They may draw away from nature , and from before the eyes of men , a veil which covers and conceals the proof ; they may be a record of facts which powerfully confirm and largely supple- ment what proof there is in the universe ...
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... religion must , with all the strength it possesses , oppose science in the accomplishment of its task - the proof of unity and universal order . Even when the conception of One Creative Being is reached Scientific Issues . 13.
... religion must , with all the strength it possesses , oppose science in the accomplishment of its task - the proof of unity and universal order . Even when the conception of One Creative Being is reached Scientific Issues . 13.
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... proofs to the contrary , the occurrence of fossils in the Silurian beds to the action of the Noachian deluge.1 Theism has come to us mainly through Chris- tianity . But Christianity itself rests on theism . It presupposes the truth of ...
... proofs to the contrary , the occurrence of fossils in the Silurian beds to the action of the Noachian deluge.1 Theism has come to us mainly through Chris- tianity . But Christianity itself rests on theism . It presupposes the truth of ...
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Page 176 - When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 235 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
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