Evolution: Its nature, its evidence, and its relation to religious thought
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Book by Stephens, Lester D.
Chapters (412)
- EVOLUTION ITS NATURE, ITS EVIDENCES, AND ITS RELATION TO RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
- PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
- CONTENTS.
- PART I. WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
- CHAPTER I. ITS SCOPE AND DEFINITION.
- Definition of Evolution.
- The Above Three Laws Are Laws of Evolution.
- CHAPTER II. THE RELATION OF LOUIS AGASSIZ TO THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION.
- PART II. EVIDENCES OF THE TRUTH OF EVOLUTION.
- CHAPTER I. GENERAL EVIDENCES OF EVOLUTION AS A UNIVERSAL LAW.
- CHAPTER II. SPECIAL PROOFS OF EVOLUTION. Introductory.
- CHAPTER III. THE GRADES OF THE FACTORS OF EVOLUTION AND THE ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE.
- CHAPTER IV. SPECIAL PROOFS, TAKEN FROM THE GENERAL LAWS OF ANIMAL STRUCTURE, OR FROM COMPARISON IN THE TAXONOMIC SERIES. General Principles.
- CHAPTER V. PROOFS FROM HOMOLOGIES OF THE VERTEBRATE SKELETON.
- CHAPTER VI. HOMOLOGIES OF THE ARTICULATE SKELETON.
- CHAPTER VII. PROOFS FROM EMBRYOLOGY, OR COMPARISON IN THE ONTOGENIC SERIES.
- CHAPTER VIII. PROOFS FROM GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANISMS.
- Continental Faunas and Floras.
- Theory of the Origin of Geographical Diversity.
- CHAPTER IX. PROOFS FROM VARIATION OF ORGANIC FORMS, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL.
- PART III. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
- CHAPTER II. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO MATERIALISM.
- CHAPTER III. THE RELATION OF GOD TO NATURE.
- CHAPTER IV. THE RELATION OF MAN TO NATURE.
- CHAPTER V. THE RELATION OF GOD TO MAN.
- CHAPTER VI. THE OBJECTION, THAT THE ABOVE VIEW IMPLIES PANTHEISM, ANSWERED.
- CHAPTER VII. SOME LOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE IMMANENCY.
- I. Conception of God.
- II. Question of First and Second Causes.
- III. Question of General and Special Providence.
- IV. The Natural and the Supernatural.
- V. Question of Design in Nature.
- VI. Question of the Mode of Creation.
- CHAPTER VIII. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE IDEA OF THE CHRIST.
- CHAPTER IX. THE RELATION OF EVOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL.
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
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