In Pursuit of Truth: A Comparative Study in Science and Religion

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Student Christian Movement, 1927 - 122 halaman
 

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Halaman 42 - Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the
Halaman 17 - therefore would be useless and therefore do not exist. Besides, the Jews and other ancient nations as well as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days and have named them after the seven planets. Now if we increase the number of planets the whole system falls to the ground.
Halaman 60 - When we look about us towards external objects and consider the operations of causes, we are never able in a single instance to discover any power or necessary connection ; any quality which binds the effect to the cause and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. We can only find that the one does actually in fact follow the other.
Halaman 72 - All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing. And this much concerning God, to discourse of whom from the appearances of things does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy.
Halaman 109 - Such in outline but even more purposeless, more void of meaning, is the world which Science presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That man is a product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving : that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his
Halaman 42 - with a force which is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
Halaman 109 - a product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving : that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his
Halaman 72 - This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Halaman 83 - A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. They may seem very wonderful to the people who witness them and very simple to those who perform them. That does not matter : if they confirm or create faith they are true miracles.
Halaman 19 - No ! stretch a point to catch a plack ; Abuse a brother to his back ; Be to the poor like onie whunstane, And haud their noses to the grunstane, Ply every art o' legal thieving ; No matter—stick to sound believing

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