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The Order and Integration of Knowledge [PDF]

arXiv, 2015
William Oliver Martin published "The Order and Integration of Knowledge" in 1957 to address the problem of the nature and the order of various kinds of knowledge; in particular, the theoretical problem of how one kind of knowledge is related to another kind. Martin characterizes kinds of knowledge as being either autonomous or synthetic. The latter are
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Moderating Natural Theology: A Heuristic Interrogative Approach

Religions
This article proposes an underappreciated value for traditional natural theology and its familiar arguments for the existence of God, without endorsing the soundness or the rational cogency of these arguments.
Paul K. Moser
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The design argument salvaged? Assessing the contemporary argument from improbability

Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2020
Some features within the physical universe appear to be so well-ordered that they have been regarded as evidence of the existence of a supernatural being who has designed them.
Juuso Loikkanen
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Creation's Persistent Voice: Critiquing the Secondary Status [PDF]

, 2012
Christianity struggles with the concept that nature/creation is truly revelatory of God, and not merely confirmatory of theological conclusions derived from special revelation or deduced from rational reflection.
Bouma, Rolf
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Towards a new natural theology based on horizontal transcendence

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009
This article explores a context for designing a new natural theology. The starting point is that traditional developments in this regard, from Augustine to Aquinas, Paley, Boyle and Barth, do not get us much further.
Cornel W. du Toit
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Claiming Barth for ethics: The last two decades [PDF]

, 2010
is is the author's PDF version of an article published in Ecclesiology© 2010. The definitive version is available at www.ingentaconnect.com.This article discusses various studies of Karl Barth's ethics written since ...
Clough, David, Leyden, Michael
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Life, the Universe, and almost Everything: Signs of Cosmic Design? [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
Why did the big bang occur, why do the laws and constants of nature as well as the boundary conditions seem so fine-tuned for life, what is the role of intelligence and self-consciousness in the universe, and how can it escape cosmic doomsday? The hypothesis of Cosmological Artificial Selection (CAS) connects those questions and suggests a far-reaching
arxiv  

The Trouble with "Puddle Thinking": A User's Guide to the Anthropic Principle [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Are some cosmologists trying to return human beings to the centre of the cosmos? In the view of some critics, the so-called "anthropic principle" is a desperate attempt to salvage a scrap of dignity for our species after a few centuries of demotion at the hands of science.
arxiv  

The Excellency of Theology: A Critique of Robert K. Merton\'s \"Puritan Thesis,\" with Reference to the Works of Robert Boyle [PDF]

, 2012
Robert K. Merton's "Puritan Thesis" asserts a direct correlation between Puritan theological beliefs and participation in natural philosophy (what today would be known as science).
Patton, Elizabeth
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European Historical Evidence of the Supernova of AD 1054 Balkan Medieval Tombstones [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
In a previous work, we establish that the acclaimed 'Arabic' records of SN 1054 from ibn Butlan originate from Europe. Also, we reconstructed the European sky at the time of the event and find that the 'new star' (SN 1054) was in the west while the planet Venus was on the opposite side of the sky (in the east) with the Sun sited directly between these ...
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