And these interpretations have been justifiably criticized as simplistic and naive by modern biologists and physicists. (religion-online.org)
Again, to speak of another criticism which modern biologists often make of Bergson, I think that we are not to take his formulation of élan vital simply as a statement of a vital principle to explain the history of life, as George Gaylord Simpson seems to assume. (religion-online.org)
They assumed that the first chapter of Genesis gave the biblical answer to the same questions as those which occupied modern biologists and geologists, an answer not acceptable to the scientific mind. (religion-online.org)