 | Colin Jager - 2007 - 304 pages
...design, for they are apt to overwhelm the mind. "My opinion of Astronomy has always been," he declares, "that it is not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator" (249), an opinion the Review notes approvingly. Rather, God is found in the smallest of mechanical... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - 2007 - 344 pages
...in 1800. Instead, he closed his eyes to the things he could not deal with. He pronounced astronomy 'not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator'. In geology, he ignored fossils, Hooke, Steno, Hutton, 'cycling', balanced theories, mountainbuilding,... | |
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MY opinion of Astronomy has always been, that it is not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator ; but that, this being proved, it shews, beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of his operations. 
