Part 2 — CHAPTER X.
Reading edition
CHAPTER X.
CHANGE, CAUSATION AND DESIGN.
§ 1. Old Theological objection to Chance.
2–4. Scientific version of the same.
5. Statistics in reference to Free-will.
6–8. Inconclusiveness of the common arguments here.
9, 10. Chance as opposed to Physical Causation.
11. Chance as opposed to Design in the case of numerical constants.
12–14. Theoretic solution between Chance and Design.
15. Illustration from the dimensions of the Pyramid.
16, 17. Discussion of certain difficulties here.
18, 19. Illustration from Psychical Phenomena.
20. Arbuthnott's Problem of the proportion of the sexes.
21–23. Random or designed distribution of the stars.
(Note on the proportion of the sexes.)