John Hales Quotes
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
Foster, Elon. New Cyclopædia of Prose Illustrations, Adapted to Christian Teaching. W. C. Palmer, Jr., & Co., 1870, p. 306.
At the time, it was very difficult for people who had been taught all their lives that God was directly responsible for the creation to accept the notion of evolution. At the time, there was not the overwhelming evidence proving Darwin’s theory that we have today. Nor did theologians realize that evolution and Darwinism were not inconsistent with the concept of a creator and supreme being. Nonetheless, there are still those who, like Agassiz, reject evolution and insist that the Biblical version of creation is literally true. See {586990}. Then there are people who have come up with the concept of Intelligent Design which originated with Agassiz though he never called it that. Most religious people today, in contrast, see no conflict in natural selection as described by Darwin and later proven, and the concept of God. They see the Biblical creation as metaphorical and natural selection as the product of an omniscient supreme being.
Also inscribed in gold around the Dome of the Rock. This was the most overt statement against Christianity and the Trinity in the Koran.
John Hales was an English cleric, theologian and writer. An eminent if modest divine and critic, his posthumous works earned him the title of the "Ever-memorable".
