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    • CHAPTER 1
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    FROM CREATION TO EVOLUTION

  • I The Visible Universe
    — Ancient and medieval views regarding the manner of creation
    — Regarding the matter of creation
    — Regarding the time of creation
    — Regarding the date of creation
    — Regarding the Creator
    — Regarding light and darkness
    — Rise of the conception of an evolution: among the Chaldeans,
    — The Hebrews, the Greeks, the Romans
    — Its survival through the Middle Ages, despite the disfavor of the Church
    — Its development in modern times.
    — The nebular hypothesis and its struggle with theology
    — The idea of evolution at last victorious
    — Our sacred books themselves an illustration of its truth
    — The true reconciliation of Science and Theology

  • II Theological Teachings regarding the Animals and Man
    — Ancient and medieval representations of the creation of man
    — Literal acceptance of the book of Genesis by the Christian fathers
    — By the Reformers
    — By modern theologians, Catholic and Protestant
    — Theological reasoning as to the divisions of the animal kingdom
    — The Physiologus, the Bestiaries, the Exempila
    — Beginnings of sceptical observation
    — Development of a scientific method in the study of Nature
    — Breaking down of the theological theory of creation

  • III Theological and Scientific Theories of an Evolution in Animated Nature
    — Ideas of evolution among the ancients
    — In the early Church
    — In the medieval Church
    — Development of these ideas from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries
    — The work of De Maillet
    — Of Linneus
    — Of Buffon
    — Contributions to the theory of evolution at the close of the eighteenth century
    — The work of Treviranus and Lamarck
    — Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier
    — Development of the theory up to the middle of the nineteenth
    — century
    — The contributions of Darwin and Wallace
    — The opposition of Agassiz

  • IV The Final Effort of Theology
    — Attacks on Darwin and his theories in England
    — In America
    — Formation of sacro-scientific organizations to combat the theory of evolution
    — The attack in France
    — In Germany
    — Conversion of Lyell to the theory of evolution
    — The attack on Darwin’s Descent of Man
    — Difference between this and the former attack
    — Hostility to Darwinism in America
    — Change in the tone of the controversy.
    — Attempts at compromise
    — Dying-out of opposition to evolution
    — Last outbursts of theological hostility
    — Final victory of evolution

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