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... CHAPTER I. What is Science ? -What is Religion ? -No Necessary and Right- ful Antagonism between them , when fully understood CHAPTER II . Causes of the Actual Antagonism of the Scientific and the Re- ligious Worlds . - Ignorance of ...
... CHAPTER I. What is Science ? -What is Religion ? -No Necessary and Right- ful Antagonism between them , when fully understood CHAPTER II . Causes of the Actual Antagonism of the Scientific and the Re- ligious Worlds . - Ignorance of ...
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... CHAPTER V. Supposed Differences between Science and Religion in their Aims and Objects . - Faith of Science in the Supersensual , in the Immaterial , in the Inconceivable , and in the Infinite CHAPTER VI . Supposed Difference between ...
... CHAPTER V. Supposed Differences between Science and Religion in their Aims and Objects . - Faith of Science in the Supersensual , in the Immaterial , in the Inconceivable , and in the Infinite CHAPTER VI . Supposed Difference between ...
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... chapter of Genesis as in the revelations of modern science ; and spontaneous generation seems to appear on the very face of the statements of Moses as therein recorded . Read verses 20 and 24 : And God said , Let the waters bring forth ...
... chapter of Genesis as in the revelations of modern science ; and spontaneous generation seems to appear on the very face of the statements of Moses as therein recorded . Read verses 20 and 24 : And God said , Let the waters bring forth ...
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... between them , and the actual identity of interests which binds them together , and which should be acknowl- edged in word , thought , and action . CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . INTRODUCTION . 15.
... between them , and the actual identity of interests which binds them together , and which should be acknowl- edged in word , thought , and action . CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . INTRODUCTION . 15.
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Or, Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge James Thompson Bixby. CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . Is there any necessary antagonism between Sci- ence and Religion ? This is the first and main ...
Or, Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge James Thompson Bixby. CHAPTER I. NO NECESSARY ANTAGONISM BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION . Is there any necessary antagonism between Sci- ence and Religion ? This is the first and main ...
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