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[ED: Softcover], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DESIGN AND DARWINISM. " How do you know," an Arab was once asked, " that there is a God 1" " In the same way," he replied," that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert?by his footprints in the world around me." " The argument from design," writes John Stuart Mill, " is an argument of a really scientific character which does not shrink from scientific tests."t " It must always be the main strength of Natural Theism.": ) BIBLICAL RECORD. And so, as if to carry out the views of the distant Arab and nearer Englishman, the great Bible, or Book, begins: " In the beginning?God." There seems a natural stop at the sacred name which forms the key-note of the whole Revelation. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And God saw everything thatHe had made and behold it was very good." There is no jar, or discordant voice, in the whole of the record as to Design, as to the great God-mind working on the lines of a plan. It does admit a principle of development from lowly things to lofty?indeed it is based on one and it is capable of admitting, if needs be, a principle of Divine selection but it is the development and selection of a God-mind, not of hypothetical laws resulting in a series of unforeseen results, or accidents. It is the development of an architect's plan not the unforeseen growth of a mighty building out of a pile of granite and a heap of mortar. In short, Genesis stakes everything on Divine Design, and it does this with one clear, distinct, unbroken voice, which is upheld by the great united chorus of every Biblical writer, down to the voice of St. John the Divine. Elements of Religion?Liddon, 56. f Theism- Mill, 38. J 26. Paley's Definition Of Design. Now what is the meaning of the word Design, which...Versandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<