'He thought natural selection could not account for the nature of the human mind and claimed humanity was affected by forces that took it outside the animal kingdom.' This is perilously close to the idea of Intelligent Design, the notion - put forward by modern creationists - that a deity had a hand in directing the course of evolution.
Romario left the committee room and began the walk to his office, a walk slowed by the queue of fellow MPs and parliamentary officials hailing this former footballing deity, squeezing his hand and inviting him to gurn at camera phones.
All I am asking is that they acknowledge that a perfect deity had no hand in writing the Bible.
In another variation, the ayushapurusha stands besides the deity with folded hands (in anjali mudra posture) with the weapon depicted on the head as part of the crown or the weapon mark on the forehead.
To the future ministers, Emerson, having vividly sketched the dismal state of the contemporary church — "It has lost its grasp on the affection of the good, and the fear of the bad" — said, "Cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity".
Benjamin is supposed to have replied, "It is true that I am a Jew, and when my ancestors were receiving their Ten Commandments from the immediate hand of Deity, amidst the thunderings and lightnings of Mount Sinai, the ancestors of my opponent were herding swine in the forests of Great Britain".
The scene is thought to depict a religious ritual in which the royal leader was worshiped as a deity, but the roaming hands and ogling eyes focused on his youthful body suggest all kinds of devotion at play.
Some people see it as the hand of the deity and others see it as the complexity of the way the human mind works.
Here and there the human-deity relationship is expressed in hand gestures.
In a unique form of Kāli worship, Shantipur worships Kāli in the form of a hand painted image of the deity known as Poteshwari (meaning the deity drawn on a piece of cloth).
