Final Quotes

Question 1

“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy of the interposition [ie, a
divine intervention] of a deity, more humble & I believe truer to consider him created
______

Answer 1

from animals

Question 2

“In order to be a person, exercising some measure of genuine freedom, the S6
creature must be brought into existence, not in the immediate divine presence,
but at a ‘distance’ from God. This ‘distance’ cannot of course be spatial; for God
is omnipresent. It must be an _______, a distance in the cognitive
dimension. And the Irenaean hypothesis is that this ‘distance’ consists, in the case
of humans, in their existence within and as part of a world which functions as an
autonomous system and from within which God is not overwhelmingly evident.
It is a world … [that] is religiously ambiguous, capable both of being seen as S7
purely natural phenomenon and of being seen as God’s creation and
experienced as mediating his presence. In such a world one can exist as a person
over against the Creator

Answer 2

epistemic distance

Question 3

All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and therefore the
sun is the ___

Answer 3

center of the universe

Question 4

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 ____

Answer 4

Theist

Question 5

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 … in order not to sow confusion into the minds of the common people and make them
more obstinate against dogmas involving higher mysteries … Indeed I shall further say
that it was not only respect for popular inability, but also the current opinion of those
times … This doctrine [accommodation] is so commonplace and so definite among all
theologians that it would be superfluous to present any testimony for it

Answer 5

accommodate

Question 6

“I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some
as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them is bound to shew why it is more
irreligious to explain the origin of man as a distinct species by descent from some
lower form, through the laws of variation and natural selection, than to explain the
birth of the individual through the laws of ordinary reproduction. 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 ______

Answer 6

blind chance

Question 7

There is question of another conjectural opinion, namely _____, the children
of the Church by no means enjoy such liberty. For the faithful cannot embrace that
opinion which maintains either

Answer 7

polygenism

Question 8

“________ … I may state that my judgment often fluctuates … In my most extreme fluctuations I have
never been an ____ in the sense of denying the existence of a God. I think that generally (and more & more as I grow older), BUT NOT ALWAYS [my capitals], that an _____
would be the more correct description of my state of mind

Answer 8

It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist & an evolutionist
Atheist
Agnostic

Question 9

that the Gospels cannot be proved to have been written simultaneously with
the events,––that they differ in many important details, far too important
it seems to me, to be admitted as the usual inaccuracies of eyewitnesses;
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 ________

Answer 9

disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation

Question 10

“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

Answer 10

faith

age-old cosmology

Question 11

Would any two workmen ever hit on so beautiful, so simple, & yet so artificial a contrivance [Ant Lion pitfall]? It cannot be thought so. The one hand has
surely worked throughout the universe. A Geologist perhaps would suggest that
the _______ have been distinct & remote the one from the other;
that the Creator rested in his labor

Answer 11

periods of Creation

Question 12

There is grandeur in this [evolutionary] 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

Answer 12

originally breathed

Question 13

“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 totally
still and motionless according to this arrangement [Copernican astronomy].”

Answer 13

firmament

Question 14

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; such is precisely the case of astronomy, so little of which is contained
therein that one does not find there even the names of the planets, except for the sun,
the moon, and only once or twice Venus, under the name Morning Star.

Answer 14

incidentally

Question 15

With man, then, we find ourselves in the presence of an ____ difference,
an ____l leap … an “_____ discontinuity

Answer 15

ontological x 3

Question 16

In the course of that conversation I said to Dr. Darwin, with reference to some of his own S8
remarkable works on the ‘Fertilization of Orchids’ and upon ‘The Earthworms,’ and various other observations he made of the wonderful contrivances for certain purposes in nature–– I said it was impossible to look at these without seeing that they were the effect and the expression of mind. I shall never forget Mr. Darwin’s answer. He looked at me very hard and said, ‘Well, that often comes over me with _____; but at other times,’ and he shook his head vaguely, adding, _____

Answer 16

overwhelming force

it seems to go away

Question 17

When the first couple were punished by the judgment of God, the whole human race,
which was to become Adam’s posterity through the first woman, was present in _____

Answer 17

the first man

Question 18

Authors of the highest eminence [ie, progressive creationists] seem to be fully
satisfied with the view that each species has been independently created. 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.

Answer 18

by the Creator

Question 19

Galileos message-incident principle

Answer 19

The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, and not how heaven goes

Question 20

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 mountains had
anything to do with the flood

Answer 20

no established geologist

Question 21

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 ___

Answer 21

gift from God

Question 22

It can be shown clearly in many other ways that a _____ came upon
the earth … these things were explained by Moses [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

Answer 22

universal flood

marine

Question 23

“I think that in disputes about natural phenomena one must begin NOT with the authority of scriptural passages, but with sensory experience and necessary demonstrations [science]… after becoming certain of some physical conclusions, we should use these as very appropriate __ to the correct interpretation of Scripture.”

Answer 23

aids

Question 24

______ expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold
trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one
of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who
are not bound by the authority of our sacred books.

Answer 24

Reckless and incompetent

Question 25

Today, nearly half a century after the publication of the encyclical [i.e., Pius XII],
new knowledge leads to the recognition of the theory of evolution as _____

Answer 25

more than a hypothesis

Question 26

Another possibility is that, by the command or permission of God and with S10
the help of ____, the animals could have been transferred to the islands

Answer 26

angels

Question 27

With respect to the theological view of the question. This is always painful to me.
I am bewildered. I had no intention to write ______ [in the Origin of Species]

…

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 _____

Answer 27

atheistically

atheistical

Question 28

“Captivated by the new understanding of the world developed by Galileo, Kepler,
and later Newton, scholars expanded their understanding of the course of creation
and the flood in terms of an intricate machine-like earth, attributing its motion,
behaviour, and history to mechanical action among discrete particles. The results
of their new learning turned up in numerous global deluge [flood] theories
published during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. During this period, the
______ of mainstream theoretical earth science in Europe.

Answer 28

flood was at the center

Question 29

I had gradually come by this time [Oct 1836 to Jan 1839], to see that the Old
Testament from its manifestly [clear] ____ of the world, 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

Answer 29

false history

Question 30

A question arises how wild animals, propagated by ordinary mating, like wolves and the rest, can be found on the islands far at sea, unless those which
were destroyed by the Flood were replaced by others descended from the animals,
male and female, which were saved in the ark. (There is no problem in regard to
domestic animals or to those which, like frogs, spring directly from the ____

Answer 30

soil