God Arises
The Method of Argument
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According to Mander, ‘We may say that finding a
theory is like discovering the pattern into which a
number of particular facts and the general laws
which govern them will fit. It is like putting
together the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle from which
one or more pieces are missing. When we have
fitted together all the pieces available (the known
facts), we can see what the missing pieces must be
like to enable them to fit into the gaps’ (p.123).
On the basis of this very principle, scientists have
agreed upon the truth of organic evolution. To
Mander, this doctrine has so many arguments in its
favour that it may be regarded as an ‘approximate
certainty.’
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The authors of
Science of Life
assert that “no one now
denies the truth of
organic evolution except for
those who are ignorant, or biased or superstitious.”
New York’s Modern Pocket Library has published a
series of books entitled
Man and the Universe
, the
fifth of which series hails Darwin’s
The Origin of
Species
as an epoch-making work, and points out
that of all theories of genealogy, this one has at, one
