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Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry

Chapter 21: Transcriber's Note
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The author interrogates modern doctrines of species development and their relation to belief in a Creator, applying rules of rational belief and judicial reasoning to compare hypotheses of special creation and evolutionary development. He reviews the writings of prominent evolutionists, critiques the logical methods they employ, and cautions religious teachers about concessions that may undermine theistic belief, while stating he excludes scriptural authority from his argument. Part polemical critique and part philosophical inquiry, the work uses imagined interlocutors to test arguments and concludes that evolutionary explanations for the origins of body and mind rely on reasoning unfit for matters affecting human conduct and belief.

Transcriber's Note

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation remain as in the original.

In Chapter 12, Page 526, the sentence: "This is a power that can belong to and inhere in a spiritual organism alone. We must, therefore, recognize in the infant this original implanted endowment, the capacity to be mentally convinced of realities; and while, in order to the first exercise of this capacity there must be a physical organism which will conduct the sensory impressions to the brain ..."
Has been amended to read "... in order to meet the first exercise of this capacity ..."