Final Quotes Flashcards
“All spheres surround the Sun as though it were in the middle of all of them, and therefore the Sun is near the __________.” - Charles E. Hummel
middle of the universe
Paraphrase Josh 10:12-13
Joshua told the sun to stop and it didn’t go down for a whole day
“… after becoming certain of some physical conclusions, we should use these as very appropriate ___ to the correct interpretation of Scripture.” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
aids
“I do not think one has to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, language,and intellect would want us to set aside the use of these. … Indeed, who wants the human mind put to death? … When one is in possession of this [scientific information] it too is a ___ from God.” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
gift
The Scripture “speak[s] ______ of the earth, water, sun, or other created thing… sciences [are] discussed in Scripture to a very minor extent and with disconnected statements…” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
incidentally
“Propositions dictated by the Holy Spirit were expressed by the sacred writers in such a way as to ______ the capacities of the very unrefined and undisciplined masses…” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
accommodate
What is the gist of Galileo’s Letter to Christina?
“The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, and not how heaven goes.”
“The word _______ [in the Bible] is literally very appropriate for the stellar sphere [ie, the sphere of fixed stars] and everything above the planetary orbs, which is totallystill and motionless according to this arrangement [Copernican astronomy].” - Galileo’s Letter to Christina
firmament
“Galileo’s judges, incapable of dissociating _____ from an _____________, believed quite wrongly that the adoption of the Copernican revolution, was such as to undermine Catholic tradition.” - Poupard
faith, age-old cosmology
“It can be shown clearly in many other ways that a ____________ came upon the earth, by which those people are persuaded who believe with difficulty that these things were explained by Moses [the traditional author of the Book of Genesis]. For even today in mountains that are lofty and difficult to climb, ______ remains are found; this is, shells and fragments of tortoise shells and other such things, which even ourselves have seen.” - Quoted in Davis A. Young
universal flood, marine
“… (There is no problem in regard to domestic animals or to those which, like frogs, spring directly from the _____.) - St Augustine
soil
“… The results of their new learning turned up in numerous global deluge theories published during the late 17th (1600s) and early 18th (1700s) centuries. During this period, the ___________ of mainstream theoretical earth science in Europe.” - Young
flood was at the center
“By the beginning of the 19th century, the interpretation of geological strata had changed radically. Virtually ____________ thought that the thick sequences of stratified sedimentary rocks so evident in quarries, cliffs, and, therefore, mountains had anything to do with the flood.” — Young
no established geologist
“… There is no question that this option is unsettling, but in the hands of sanctified believers, it can point the way to an _______ understanding of the Bible” - Young
improved
“A Geologist perhaps would suggest that the ____________ have been distinct & remote the one from the other; that the Creator rested in his labor.” - Darwin
periods of Creation
“I had gradually come by this time, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly [clear] ____________, with the Tower of Babel [Gen 11], the rainbow as a sign [Gen 9], etc., etc., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or any barbarian.” - Darwin
false history of the world
“…by such reflections as these [1-3], which I give not as having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I came to _________________.” - Darwin
disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation
“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy of the interposition [ie, intervention] of a deity, more humble & I believe truer to consider him created from ______.” - Darwin
animals
“To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter _____________, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes like those determining the birth and death of the individual.” - Darwin
by the Creator
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been _________ into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone on cycling according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” - Darwin
originally breathed
“With respect to the theological view of the question. This is always painful to me. I am bewildered. I had no intention to write _________” - Darwin to Gray
atheistically
“I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can. Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily ________.” - Darwin to Gray
atheistical
“The birth both of the species and of the individual are equally parts of that grand sequence of events, which our minds refuse to accept as the result of _________.” - Descent
blind chance
“When thus reflecting I feel compelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called a _________.” - Darwin
Theist
