“Scripture suggests that the elements in space were created for the benefit of earth, while evolution suggests that earth is an insignificant speck in vast space.” EarthSpaceEvolutionElementsBenefitsScriptureInsignificantSpecks Author:Walter Lang
“Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a world of evolution 'and unchanging causation'. It invited new ways of thinking. It demanded a new rationale for belief. With science's truths the only accessible ones, 'blind faith' was no longer admirable but 'the one unpardonable sin'.” ThinkingWorldWayEarthBeliefSinFineEvolutionBlindCosmosNew WaysInvitedWay Of ThinkingAdmirableEccentricBlind FaithUnchangingSpunSpecksRationaleCausationCobwebsNew Ways Of Thinking Author:Adrian Desmond
“Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.” MayEarthCostDullDirtSpecks Book:The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets Source: The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets