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59861 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 173.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… called natural, though it conceives nature in a strictly limited and exclusive sense. While, then, evolution, so far as it is a scientific doctrine, is a theory …
59862 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 175.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… by natural process, if above all we cannot prove in any way worthy of being called scientific that certain types of life lived before others; if, in fine, man …
59863 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 175.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… higher nature of man. An unseen spiritual universe must be assumed, Professor Wallace thinks, to account for the mental, moral, and spiritual powers of man …
59864 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 175.3 (General Conference of SDA)
Evolution, Natural Selection Destructive, Not Constructive.—Natural selection does not and cannot produce new species or varieties or cause modifications …
59865 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 176.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… . Natural selection in a somewhat similar way tends to postpone this degeneracy by killing off the “unfit,” but selection either artificial or natural cannot …
59866 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 177.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… human nature, and their fetish or something still lower (the expression of horror) is supposed to be the faint beginning from which full-blown Christianity …
59867 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 177.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… develops naturally out of the state of totemism into the wisdom of Sophocles and Socrates, or he who transforms his fetish in the course of many generations …
59868 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 178.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… savage nature which the evolution of man from the lower animals would necessarily entail. They cannot altogether forego every memory of an Edenic beginning …
59869 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 179.4 (General Conference of SDA)
The origin of life is veiled in a mist that science has not dispelled and does not hope to dispel. By none of the processes that we call natural can life now be produced from the not-living.
59870 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 179.9 (General Conference of SDA)
… organic nature by everyday processes in a world where such facts prevail. Rather must we say, with the force of the accumulated momentum of all that has been …
59871 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 180.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… call natural law. Evolution seeks to smooth out all distinction between creation and the modern régime of “natural law.”
59872 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 180.2 (General Conference of SDA)
… of nature and the reign of natural law.
59873 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 180.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… most natural thus to work backward upon the supposed history of development; for there are certainly some leading facts about man’s early history that …
59874 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 183.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… lower nature to the higher, the physical to the spiritual part of man.
59875 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 187.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… of nature,”-about which we used to hear so much from Professor Huxley? Why, this invoking the power of ice action in a semitropical climate is contrary to their …
59876 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 188.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… been naturally produced.
59877 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 193.4 (General Conference of SDA)
… very natural in the flat plain of Babylonia, which lies close to the sea and is watered by two great streams.
59878 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 194.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… a “nature myth,” representing the phenomena of winter, which in Babylonia is a time of rain.
59879 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 195.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… their natural development in that part of Western Asia. The ultimate origin may belong elsewhere, but that does not affect these conclusions. [p. 82]-“ Amurru …
59880 Handbook for Bible Students, p. 199.3 (General Conference of SDA)
… , by natural generation, be the son of both Jacob and Heli, and as it says that “Jacob begat Joseph” and does not say that Heli begat Joseph, the natural and satisfactory …