According to Thierry, the act of divine creation is limited to the creation of the four elements, which then evolve by themselves, mix according to mathematical proportions and make up the physical world.
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The book mostly covered uncontroversial details of biology, but asserted that these were correctly seen as " God's creation " or " divine creation ", and presented biblical creation as the correct scientific view.
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Comparison is drawn between this Chinese text and the " Book of the Prefect ", and the canto closes with images of light as divine creation drawn from Dante's " Paradiso ".
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Books by the eminent geologist Charles Lyell had influenced the young Darwin during the voyage, and he then befriended Darwin who he saw as a supporter of his ideas of gradual geological processes with continuing divine Creation of species.
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The surprising news helped set off in Darwin's mind the train of thought that led him to the daring conclusion that the earth's species might not have remained fixed and unchangeable since some moment of divine creation.
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The eminent geologist Charles Lyell, whose books had influenced the young Darwin during the Voyage of the Beagle, befriended Darwin who he saw as a supporter of his ideas of gradual geological processes with continuing divine Creation of species.
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The belief in the existence of the hippogriff, such as Ariosto describes, is fiercely attacked in a scientific essay on religion in 1862, which argues that such an animal can neither be a divine creation, nor truly exist.
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There are patterns, but what is a significant pattern ( intention, motivation, human or divine creation ) and what is coincidence ( an " id�e fixe " of one of the book's characters ) is impossible to tell.
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His faith in the uniformity of nature ( except man's mind ) was set out in a Robert Chambers which applied uniform laws to the history of life in contrast to more respectable ideas such as catastrophism involving a series of divine creations.
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The " pithecometra principle " has been most notable in evolution theory by placing humanity as an offshoot of animal species, rather than a separate divine creation, and thus " pithecometra " has generated intense religious controversy for decades.
