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Natural theology and nature's disguises
Journal of the History of Biology, 1982Henry Walter Bates’s paper on the phenomenon of mimicry in butterflies’ was read at the Linnean Society of London on November 21, 1861-three days short of the second anniversay of Darwin’s publication of On the Origin of Species. In this paper Bates described surprising resemblances among butterfly specimens of different families.
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1991
Although Faraday’s early biographers emphasised his empiricism, historians of science have more recently sought to understand Faraday in terms of his theoretical commitments and have argued that his success resulted from his rich and insightful use of theoretical constructs such as the lines of force which he conceived permeating space.
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Although Faraday’s early biographers emphasised his empiricism, historians of science have more recently sought to understand Faraday in terms of his theoretical commitments and have argued that his success resulted from his rich and insightful use of theoretical constructs such as the lines of force which he conceived permeating space.
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Discovering God and Soul: A Reappraisal of and Appreciation for Cartesian Natural Theology
, 2014As a contribution to ramified natural theology, I advance some thoughts in favor of a distinctively Cartesian variation of natural theology that lends itself to the Christian understanding of God as a mind and as personal.
Joshua R. Farris
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1999
It has been claimed that Natural Theology has been an incentive to the scientific investigation of nature and that, conversely, this investigation yields arguments in favour of it. Certainly some of the greatest scientists (Kepler, Boyle, Newton, Hutton) used their discipline to point to the power, wisdom and goodness of the Creator of all things.
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It has been claimed that Natural Theology has been an incentive to the scientific investigation of nature and that, conversely, this investigation yields arguments in favour of it. Certainly some of the greatest scientists (Kepler, Boyle, Newton, Hutton) used their discipline to point to the power, wisdom and goodness of the Creator of all things.
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The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology
, 2013'The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology' is the first collection to consider the full breadth of natural theology from both historical and contemporary perspectives and to bring together leading scholars to offer accessible high-level accounts of the ...
R. Manning
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2013
It is not a universally accepted view, but neither is it a shocking or novel one, that Hobbes was a critic of religion. So far from being novel, this was the view of many of Hobbes’s contemporaries, some of whom regarded him not just as a critic of religion but as a bitter enemy of it.
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It is not a universally accepted view, but neither is it a shocking or novel one, that Hobbes was a critic of religion. So far from being novel, this was the view of many of Hobbes’s contemporaries, some of whom regarded him not just as a critic of religion but as a bitter enemy of it.
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Natural Theology and the Uses of Argument
, 2013Arguments in natural theology have recently increased in their number and level of sophistication. However, there has not been much analysis of the ways in which these arguments should be evaluated as good, taken collectively or individually.
John M. DePoe, Timothy J. McGrew
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The Problem of Natural Theology
Religious Studies, 1972It is a curious fact that the much maligned ontological argument to prove the existence of God has in recent times enjoyed a revival of interest to which even Karl Barth, the arch-enemy of natural theology has contributed; but since the revival of interest has appared in a wide diversity of intellectual contexts, both philosophical and theological, the
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Natural Theology in the Patristic Period
, 2013The centrality of natural theology in this period and its inescapable formation of what succeeds are indicated by the multiple forms it takes throughout its extent in Hellenic, Jewish, and Christian philosophies, religious practices, and theologies ...
W. Hankey
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Natural Theology in Eastern Religions
, 2013Eastern Religions vary in their approach to Natural Theology, generally dependent on the relationship that they see between the human mind, and the deeper levels of religious or metaphysical truth.
Jessica Frazier
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