Word: huxley
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According to Julian Huxley man has now become his own savior and has complete control of his own future. Man can now save his own self by "a comprehensive theory of evolution" and "its reliance on scientific method." However, if this be true, we should look at the world situation today and see the works of the scientific savior, who only studies man, who cannot love man because to love would destroy the validity of the "scientific method," and who, finally, can only point to, but not forgive, the sins of the world. Huxley's savior promises not eternal...
Thank you for your surprisingly unbiased account of the debate between Biologist Huxley and Theologian Mascall. That Huxley won the argument was not so much owing to his superior debating ability as it was to the fundamentally untenable position of his opponent, who, like many other bachelors of science, does not really understand the scientific method...
...empirical -if it were, we would in many cases have to admit its absurdity. Christianity is not a deductive system, it is the Word of grace spoken into the heart of man in his guilt and tragedy. It grasps the whole being of man, not just his logical faculties. Huxley's comparison of religion and science is like a comparison of music and cost accounting. TIM SWANSON...
...origin of man, says Huxley, "the assertion of Roman Catholic theology that all mankind is descended from a single couple, instead of from a slowly evolving population, is certainly untrue; and its claim that, though natural evolution can only account for man's body, God is needed to account for his soul. is quite unjustified...
Unique Man. In reply, the Rev. Dr. Mascall is prepared to accept the victory of the Darwinian theory of evolution. But he does not think the story ends there. Biologist Huxley, he says, has overlooked the significance of two "striking conclusions" of biology that are of great importance to theology. The first: man, as an intelligent being, is unique on earth. The second: "With the appearance of an intelligent being, evolution as generally understood . . . has virtually come to an end, or, to state the position in a different way, an entirely new mode of evolution has come into being...