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Quotes Tagged "beneficence"

...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.
— Charles Darwin The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
Tags: tolerance, science, profound, omnipotent, newton, misery, isaac-newton, evolution, evidence, design, biology, beneficence, argument-from-design
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