The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer

That the world as we know it had a beginning is a truth which there is no denying. Not only have philosophers always argued that it must be so: the researches of physical scienc...

LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN HENRY NEWMAN DURING HIS LIFE IN THE ENGLISH CHURCH. With a brief Autobiography. Edited, at Cardinal Newman's request, by ANNE MOZLEY. 2 vols....

seeks to resolve. Part II. presents the solution offered by Christianity and takes the form of an historical analysis of the principles by which the Church has been guided in he...

Though no essential part of our enquiry, Darwinism must be studied on account of importance ascribed to it--Baseless claims on its behalf--True character of the system--Natural...

Arguments on behalf of Evolution--The genealogy of the Horse--Haeckel's Pedigree of Man--Darwin's plea of imperfection of the geological record--No evolutionary process is yet d...

The order of the _Cosmos_ requires a Cause--No cause known to us can produce such a result except Intelligence--Hence we infer Purpose or Design and are led to Theism--Scientifi...

Origin of simple sensation and consciousness even less explicable than that of life--Gulf between man and the lower animals--Language exclusively human--The significance of Free...

A combination of two other "Laws," viz.--The indestructibility of Matter, and the Conservation of Energy--But there is also Dissipation of Energy--Consequences inferred from thi...

Palæontology furnishes the only sound basis for argument--The nature of the evidence required--The history of Life as known to us is inconsistent with evolutionary theories--Hae...