... belief in either? Mankind has striven to explain itself as a "being" and its world of experiences since the days of ancient Greek philosophers. Renowned men from Socrates to Aquinas contemplated the world over in a question/answer dialogue deliberating ideas of man, gods or God, and the relationships to the seen and unseen. It was not until the "age ... fittest or those finches that had the right size beak would be able to obtain a food supply while those finches that did not would become extinct. Darwin and his predecessor, Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895), would transcend the term evol...

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... to the organism". The watch was designed by an intelligence with a purpose in mind, similarly that living things are as they are, is a testimony to the existence of a creator. St Thomas Aquinas held that things which lack knowledge, such as an acorn cannot strive towards a goal (i.e. grow into an oak tree) unless it is directed by an intelligent being(4). The arguments from ... ...

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