 | Michael Banton - 1961 - 218 pages
...any assault upon religion, that in the Origin itself he went out of his way to disclaim the notion: I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest... | |
 | Leslie Sklair - 1970 - 294 pages
...evolution could be reconciled. 'I see no good reason,' he states at the end of Origin of Species, Vhy the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.'* Rather, he suggested, man becomes more noble on the evolutionary theory, and certainly the idea of... | |
 | Niall Shanks - 2004 - 296 pages
...science in the past, and perhaps it could do so here. Thus Darwin observed in The Origin of Species: I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery... | |
 | Francis S. Collins - 2006 - 305 pages
...belief, though in The Origin of Species he took pains to point out a possible harmonious interpretation: "I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone. ... A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he 'has gradually learned to see... | |
 | Vernon L. Grose - 2006 - 742 pages
..."God-versusDarwin" conflict. Almost in an apologetic plea he wrote in his The Origin of Specits:zm I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of anyone... A celebrated author and divine has written to me that "he has gradually learnt to see that... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2006 - 224 pages
...and science is outside the realm of God. 8 WHY CHRISTIANS AND CONSERVATIVES SHOULD ACCEPT EVOLUTION I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feeling of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember... | |
 | W. Noel Keyes - 2007 - 1234 pages
...mankind must submit to a set of laws. In Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, he concluded in 1859: I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one . . . Why, it may be asked, until recently did nearly all the most eminent living naturalists and geologists... | |
 | Kevin Mills - 2007 - 234 pages
...coalescence, largely by virtue of what is left unsaid. "I see no good reason," writes Darwin defensively, "why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one" (388). Now the only reason for mentioning the shocking of religious feelings here is the assumption... | |
 | Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society (Great Britain) - 1885 - 524 pages
...into the subject, we may quote the following interesting passage from the Origin of Species : — " I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1885 - 808 pages
...delivery being likewise enhanced, if possible, by the context, it being preceded by the remark that " I see " no good reason why the views given in this volume should " shock the religious feelings of anyone," and followed by a sort of endorsement from a letter written him by a " cele" brated author... | |
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It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed,... 
