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|isbn=0-8129-6849-2

|isbn=0-8129-6849-2

|url=http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Remarkable-History-Scientific-Chronicles/dp/0679642889

|url=http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Remarkable-History-Scientific-Chronicles/dp/0679642889

|quote=Indeed, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, William Gilbert, John Ray, and many other prior scientific luminaries freely mixed matters of supernatural and natural causation.}}</ref>|group=note}} A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''[[First Cause|first cause]]'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book

|quote=Indeed, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, William Gilbert, John Ray, and many other prior scientific luminaries freely mixed matters of supernatural and natural causation.}}</ref> Adam Sedgwick's review of the [[The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection|''Origin'']] published  in the Spectator on 24 March 1860 criticised [[Darwin]]'s theory for unflinching materialism and for utterly repudiating final causes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles [24 Mar – 3 Apr 1860]|publisher=the University of Cambridge Darwin Correspondence Project |accessdate=17-Mar-2013|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2734#back-mark-2734.f5|quote=C.Darwin referes to a passage in Sedgwick's review ([Sedgwick] 1860, p. 286): But I cannot conclude without expressing my detestation of the theory, because of its unflinching materialism; … because it utterly repudiates final causes, and thereby indicates a demoralised understanding on the part of its advocates.}}</ref>|group=note}} A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''[[First Cause|first cause]]'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book

   | author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks

   | author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks

   | year=1990

   | year=1990