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Serving New Thought is pleased to present
Sanford Robinson's
John Bascom Prophet
Book page numbers, along with the number to the left of the .htm extension match the page numbers of the original books to ensure easy use in citations for research papers and books
Introduction -
The Man -
The Conflict Between Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dr. Bascom's Time -
Dr. Bascom's Contention that Mechanical Evolution is incomplete -
Spiritual Evolution and the Modification of Religious Beliefs Resulting from this Conception -
Constructive Realism / Science of Mind / "unity of mind and matter" / "the world is the product of God's thought" / The Solution of Philosophical and Religious Problems -
Dr. Bascom and Present Thought -
Contents -
orderly relations by the survival of the fittest. In reality it offers no adequate explanation of how it is that living things vary. It offers no reasons why changes should be in one direction rather than in another, or why the changes should be in the interest of life rather than adverse to life. Natural selection concededly explains many changes that have occurred in living things, particularly in cases where one form of life impinges upon another, and in cases of the disappearance of species. Natural selection explains how life continues, but does not explain how the seeds of life came into being. The world nowhere offers evidence of the abortions, the misfits and mistrials and failures with which the earth must have been literally filled if chance were the cause of order. Furthermore, natural selection with its tardy and hesitating movement cannot meet the requirements of the case. All the past years of life on earth, long as the period is, comprise too short a period for natural selection to have done the work
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