Final Quotes Flashcards
“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
______
from animals
“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
epistemic distance
All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and therefore the
sun is the ___
center of the universe
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 ____
Theist
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
accommodate
“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 ______
blind chance
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
polygenism
“________ … 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
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist & an evolutionist
Atheist
Agnostic
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 ________
disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation
“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
faith
age-old cosmology
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
periods of Creation
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
originally breathed
“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].”
firmament
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.
incidentally
With man, then, we find ourselves in the presence of an ____ difference,
an ____l leap … an “_____ discontinuity
ontological x 3
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, _____
overwhelming force
it seems to go away
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 _____
the first man
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.
by the Creator
Galileos message-incident principle
The intention of the Holy Spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven, and not how heaven goes
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
no established geologist
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 ___
gift from God
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
universal flood
marine
“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.”
aids
______ 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.
Reckless and incompetent
