..."unperceived causes" and "accidental causes" that can only be conjected; and so on. Darwin states that "nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...class by utility or by the doctrine of final causes' (emphasis added). 23. Darwin's evolutionary-biological reductionism encountered resistance from other...

...305, 359, 384-85, 402, 416, 420). Creationism does not meet the scientific requirements then accepted: Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...being, we can only say that so it is; — that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;...

...various degrees of modification, is partially revealed to us by our classifications. Origin, p. 364-5 Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...being, we can only say that so it is; — that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;...

...on "morphology," mentions Professor Richard Owen who, as a creationist, held to the pattern belief: "The hopelessness of the attempt has been expressly...being, we can only say that so it is; - that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and plants in each great class on a uniform plan;...

...of irreverence and conceit relative to his dispute with creationist ideas. In such a regard he said, "Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain...class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes. . .On the ordinary view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is: -...