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  • (Darwin) fairly for taking refuge in "Pentateuchal" phraseology when he ought to have done one of two things -- (a) give up the problem, (b) admit the necessity of spontaneous generation.

    Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Indeed it is a necessary corollary from Darwin's views if legitimately carried out, and I think Owen smites him (Darwin) fairly for taking refuge in "Pentateuchal" phraseology when he ought to have done one of two things ” (a) give up the problem, (b) admit the necessity of spontaneous generation.

    The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900

  • … It is sheer hypercriticism to deny the substantially Mosaic character of the Pentateuchal tradition.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • … It is sheer hypercriticism to deny the substantially Mosaic character of the Pentateuchal tradition.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • … It is sheer hypercriticism to deny the substantially Mosaic character of the Pentateuchal tradition.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • … It is sheer hypercriticism to deny the substantially Mosaic character of the Pentateuchal tradition.

    Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011

  • Patristic and Pentateuchal studies rarely intersect, but if this analogy seems worthy of further exploration, perhaps they should be allowed to more frequently.

    Pentateuch as Diatessaron James F. McGrath 2010

  • Chronicles and the mosaic legislation (Essays on Pentateuchal criticism by various writers) by Milton Spenser Terry

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Obama rejects criticism on health-care reform legislation 2009

  • The ‘Pentateuchal term’ Darwin is referring to here is the word ‘creation’.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • In a letter of 1863 to his friend the botanist Joseph Hooker, he said, ‘But I have long regretted that I truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant “appeared” by some wholly unknown process.’

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

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