Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge.

  • Oliver Lodge
Date:
1930
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Credit: Evolution and creation / by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The word “ evolution ” is often employed as an antithesis or opposition idea to creation: and it is quite possible that when Herbert Spencer was trying to ex¬ tend ideas derived from Darwin, as to the natural processes by which Species had originated, and to apply them to the production of everything, some notion of that kind was in his mind. He probably felt that he was exploding the popular idea of a sudden creation, a production of things by a creative Fiat, and substituting a long slow and gradual physical or atomic process, through which the simple evolved into the complex, and the potentialities latent in the atoms of matter become un¬ folded, developed, evolved; as a bud unfolds into a flower. Thus a personal activity, guided by something like will and in¬ tention, seemed replaced by an automatic and so to speak mechanical operation
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