quotes Flashcards
“All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and therefore the sun is the _________________
Centre of the universe”
“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” Galileo’s letter to the duchess.
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 gift from God”
“speaks __________ 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 if the planets, except for the sun, the moon, and only once or twice Venus, under the name Morning star”
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… in order not to sow confusion into the minds of 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
Cardinal Baronio’s hermeneutical aphorism “______________________________”
“the intention of the holy spirit is to teach us how one goes to heaven and now how heaven goes”
The world __________(in the bible) is literally very appropriate for the stellar sphere (i.e. the sphere of fixed starts) and everything above the planetary orbs, which is totally still and motionless according to this arrangement (Copernican astronomy)
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”
faith , age old cosmology
“ It can be shown clearly in many other ways that a ___________ came upon the earth … for even today in the 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
“ 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 those, which, like frogs, spring directly from the____)”
soil
“By the command or permission of God and with the help of _____, the animals could have been transferred to the island.”
angels
“captivated by the new understanding of the world developed by Galileo, Kepler, and later Newton, scholars expanded their understating of the course of creation and the flood un terms of an intricate machine-like earth, attributing its motion, behavior, and history to mechanical action among discrete particles. The results of their (Galileo, Kepler, and Newton) 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”
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 mountains had anything to do with the flood.”
no established geologist
“ would any two workmen ever hit on so beautiful, so simple, and 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 and remote the one from the other, that the creator rested in his labor”
periods of Creation
“I had gradually come by this [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
false history
“by further reflecting that the clearest evidence would be requisite to make any sane man believe in the miracles [ i.e. Personal interventionism] by which Christianity is supported,
1. That the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become
2. That the men at that time were ignorant and credulous to a degree almost incomprehensible by us,
3. 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 having the least novelty or value, but as they influenced me, I cam to _____________________________”
disbelieve in Christianity as a divine revelation
“Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work worthy of the interposition [i.e. a divine intervention] of a deity, more humble and I believe truer to consider himself created ____________”
from animals
“Authors of the highest eminence [i.e. 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
“ 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, so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved”
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 _________…………… 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 all necessarily ________………”
atheistically, atheistical
“ 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, with our minds refuse to accept as the result of ____________”
blind chance
“ Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of conceiving this immense and wondrous universe, including man with his capacity of looking backwards and far into futurity, as a result of blind chance or necessity. 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
“____________________________________________… I may state that my judgment often fluctuates… In my most extreme fluctuations I have never be an ______ in the sense of denying the existence of a God. I think that generally (and more and more as I grow older), But not always, that an ________would be the more correct description of my state of mine”
It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist and an evolutionist,
Atheist
Agnostic
“ In the course of that conversation I said to Dr. Darwin, with reference to some of his own 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’
