 | 1884 - 626 pages
...with a remarkable passage in Paley's ' Natural Theology,' which it may be worth while to quote : — ' That which can contrive, which can design, must be...consciousness and thought. They require that which can conceive an end or purpose, as well as the power of providing means and of directing them to their... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1889 - 750 pages
...philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive, which can design, must be a person. These capacifies constitute personality, for they imply consciousness and thought. They require that which... | |
 | William A. Dembski, Michael Ruse - Science - 2004 - 430 pages
...the Deity, as distinguished from what is sometimes called nature, sometimes called a principle.... Now, that which can contrive, which can design, must...personality, for they imply consciousness and thought The acts of a mind prove the existence of a mind; and in whatever a mind resides, is a person. The... | |
 | William Paley - Religion - 2005 - 296 pages
...philosophically, seem to be intended to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now, that which can contrive, which can design,...purpose, as well as the power of providing means and directing them to their end.1 They require a centre in which perceptions unite, and from which volitions... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - Religion - 2007 - 344 pages
...philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive, which can design,...thought. They require that which can perceive an end or purposes; as well as the power of providing means, and of directing them to their end. They require... | |
 | John B. Cobb - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 449 pages
...the Deity, as distinguished from what is sometimes called nature, sometimes called a principle. . . . Now, that which can contrive, which can design, must...personality, for they imply consciousness and thought. . . . The acts of a mind prove the existence of a mind; and in whatever a mind resides, is a person.... | |
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... to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive, which can design, must be a person. These capacities constitute personality, for they imply consciousness and thought. They require that which can perceive an end or purpose, as well as the power... 
