Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grant is in the peculiar position of actively opposing the divorce laws of his church at the same time he is trying to marry a woman who has two living husbands. Dr. Fosdick opposes one of the fundamental precepts of the Presbyterian church, the virgin birth of Christ. I don't respect, I can't respect men like these, who stay in the church at the same time they are tearing down the faith of the church...
...believe that the college man, as well as the working man, has enough faith in the supernatural, in the miraculous, to credit the virgin birth of Jesus Christ," he continued. "The quarrel that I have with some of the hypotheses of science is the treatment of dogmatic evidence as though it were proven fact. The divinity and virgin birth of Christ are two of the most beautiful and satisfying thoughts of Christian religion, but since they are founded on faith alone, they have been attacked...
Hence, although he believes in the usefulness of creeds, Bishop Lawrence refuses to insist on the literal interpretation of any creed or of the Bible. Although he is personally inclined to accept the traditional idea of the Virgin Birth, he says its is not essential to Episcopal faith. Thus, before conservatives in the Episcopal Church can purge it of the so-called wheretics" they must settle with Bishop Lawrence...
Artificial Fertilization. Biologists had long known that certain low invertebrates, such as rotifers or plant lice, normally reproduce themselves without fertilization by the male, by a process called parthenogenesis (virgin birth). Loeb proved that in many other species parthenogenesis can be induced artificially by treating the egg in various ways, i.e., keeping it in sea water, in salt or sugar concentrations at a certain temperature, in certain acid solutions, pricking it with a needle. In 1899 he caused the unfertilized eggs of sea-urchins to 'develop into swimming larvae and remain alive. Similar results were obtained with starfish, worms...
...definite ideas of good and bad taste, I was perhaps somewhat unduly biased against this book from the start, a condition which tended to increase as I went on. It is another one of those stories, this time dealing with college life, in which the author sets out with virgin sword to slay the ogre of iniquity who has so long beset the world. Here he starts out by laying bare the sin and wickedness of our generation. I, being a more or less normal child of the said generation, have become to some degree weary of continually being sacrificed...