Natural theology is a facet of the revolution in world view that occurred in Europe in the 17th century.

Natural theology is a branch of theology based on reason and ordinary experience.

Natural theology, thus, is that part of the philosophy of religion dealing with describing the nature of the gods, or, in monotheism, arguing for or against attributes or non-attributes of God, and especially the existence of God, purely philosophically, that is, without recourse to any special or supposedly supernatural revelation.

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Natural theology was not a unified doctrine, and while some such as Louis Agassiz were strongly opposed to the ideas in the book, others sought a reconciliation in which evolution was seen as purposeful.

* From the 17th century onwards, it also became possible to use the term ' theology ' to refer to study of religious ideas and teachings that are not specifically Christian ( e. g., in the phrase ' Natural Theology ' which denoted theology based on reasoning from natural facts independent of specifically Christian revelation ), or that are specific to another religion ( see below ).

He is best known for his exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology, which made use of the watchmaker analogy ( also see natural theology ).

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" Natural theology and nature's disguises ".

" Natural theology " has no value save where it leans on faith.

Natural philosophy and natural theology encompassed the conceptual and metaphysical basis of plant and animal life, dealing with problems of why organisms exist and behave the way they do, though these subjects also included what is now geology, physics, chemistry, and astronomy.

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* Natural theology – the discussion of those aspects of theology that can be investigated without the help of revelation scriptures or tradition ( sometimes contrasted with " positive theology ")

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Natural theology, whose proponents include Thomas Aquinas, states that knowledge of God can be gained through a combination of observation of nature and human reason ; this issue remains a very controversial topic within Christianity to this day.

Natural theology by its very operation abstracts the existence of God from his act, so that if it does not begin with deism, it imposes deism upon theology.

Natural theology had earlier expected that scientific findings based on empirical evidence would help religious understanding.

Natural theology sought evidence in nature supporting Christianity.

In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper " Natural Language & Natural Selection " which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.

Though this usually goes unacknowledged, Optimality Theory was strongly influenced by Natural Phonology ; both view phonology in terms of constraints on speakers and their production, though these constraints are formalized in very different ways.

Natural disasters triggered by human ( or alien ) activity were often shown, and environmental themes featured strongly in the program.

According to Joseph McCabe, he gave " Agnostic and strongly worded " Rationalist lectures to the London Sunday Lecture Society: his published efforts in this direction included Natural Phenomena and their Influence on Different Religious Systems ( 1873 ); Dogma and Science ( 1876 ); and The Spontaneous Dissolution of Ancient Creeds ( 1876 ).

He might also have been influenced by the name of a legendary island mentioned in The Natural History by Pliny the Elder.

After Mayr was appointed at the American Museum of Natural History, he influenced American ornithological research by mentoring young birdwatchers.

By 1793, influenced by the Regius Professor of Natural History, John Walker ( 1731 – 1803 ), Jameson abandoned medicine and the idea of being a ship's surgeon, and focused instead on science, particularly geology and mineralogy.

They were instrumental in creating a new type of visionary art and music, and influenced artists like Alec Empire, Cock E. S. P., Crash Worship, Usama Alshaibi, Natural Athlete, Liz Armstrong, Lennie Lee, Johnny Terris, Weasel Walter, Andy Ortmann, and the later work featured in Peter Bagge's Hate.

In writing the poem, Tennyson was influenced by the ideas of evolution presented in Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation which had been published in 1844, and had caused a storm of controversy about the theological implications of impersonal nature functioning without direct divine intervention.

Natural intuition would predict a decrease in temperature while getting farther away from a heat source, but it is theorized that the photosphere, influenced by the sun ’ s magnetic fields, emits certain waves which carry energy ( i. e. heat ) to the corona and solar wind.

Geologists influenced by natural theology, such as Buckland and Sedgwick, made a regular practice of attacking the evolutionary ideas of Lamarck and Grant, and Sedgwick wrote a famously harsh review of The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation.

There, he was influenced by Levi Frisbie, Professor of Natural Religion, who was largely interested in moral philosophy, which he termed " the science of the principles and obligations of duty ".

Carlyle's theory of Natural Supernaturalism influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, two admirers of Carlyle.

Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum ( Natural History ) in South Kensington in 1887.

Because of continued pressure on space the decision was taken to move natural history to a new building in South Kensington, which would later become the British Museum of Natural History.

The natural history collections were an integral part of the British Museum until their removal to the new British Museum of Natural History, now the Natural History Museum, in 1887.

The original 1753 collection has grown to over thirteen million objects at the British Museum, 70 million at the Natural History Museum and 150 million at the British Library.

* British Caenozoic Fossils, 1975, The Natural History Museum, London.

* British Mesozoic Fossils, 1983, The Natural History Museum, London.

* 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the " Piltdown Man " skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.

A 70-page Natural Law Party paper was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments.

* British Palaeozoic Fossils, 1975, The Natural History Museum, London.

* Gascoigne, J., ' Rise and Fall of British Newtonian Natural Theology ', Science in Context, 2 ( 1988 ), 219-256.

** Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the Piltdown Man, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.

The skull of the specimen is still in the possession of the Natural History Museum in London ( to which the fossil collections of the British Museum were transferred later in the century ), but at some point, it became separated from the rest of the skeleton, the location of which is not known.

* " Mary Anning ", British Natural History Museum.

* Carter, Harold Burnell ( 1988 ) Sir Joseph Banks, 1743-1820 London: British Museum of Natural History 10-ISBN 0-565-00993-1 ; 13-ISBN 978-0-565-00993-9

Heslop reportedly sent four pygmy hippopotamus skulls he collected to the British Museum of Natural History in London.

Skulls were collected, these were compared to known skulls at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and British Museum, and confirmed identification of a single species, the Asiatic Black Bear, showing no morphological difference between ' tree bear ' and ' ground bear.

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

* Natural World ( TV series ), British documentary series

In 2004, along with two British trade associations, the Alliance for Natural Health had a legal challenge to the Food Supplements Directive referred to the European Court of Justice by the High Court in London.