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Darwin on the argument from Ignorance again

By PvM
July 17, 2005 15:45 MST

“…it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.”

Darwin wrote:

“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”

Charles Darwin as quoted by Gavin Rylands De Beer

    

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