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.

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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 ).

Natural theology strongly influenced British science, with the expectation as expressed by Adam Sedgwick in 1831 that truths revealed by science could not conflict with the moral truths of religion.

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 book 8, chapter 16 of Pliny the Elder's Natural History from 77 AD the elk and an animal called achlis, which is presumably the same animal, are described thus:

Natural law, or the law of nature (), is a system of law that is purportedly determined by nature, and thus universal.

Groups opposing certain generally accepted scientific views on evolution, second-hand smoke, AIDS, and other politically contentious scientific matters argue that PC is responsible for the failure of their perspectives to receive a fair public hearing ; thus, in Lamarck's Signature: How Retrogenes are Changing Darwin's Natural Selection Paradigm, Assoc.

The Idaho Natural Law Party remained active, and was prepared to have three candidates on the ballot for state and federal office in 2006 by entering into a coalition with the new United Party, and thus remained the only Natural Law Party still active in the United States of America.

Natural capital is thus the stock of natural ecosystems that yields a flow of valuable ecosystem goods or services into the future.

Natural convection, or free convection, occurs due to temperature differences which affect the density, and thus relative buoyancy, of the fluid.

Halley's visits to Newton in 1684 thus resulted from Halley's debates about planetary motion with Wren and Hooke, and they seem to have provided Newton with the incentive and spur to develop and write what became Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica ( Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ).

Lay sells off several profitable operations including Northern Petrochemical, PEAK anti-freeze, EVAL resins which makes plastic food packaging possible and brought in silent partnerships in Northern Liquid Fuels, Northern Natural Resources and Northern Engineering, Enron Oil Trading and Transport, Enron Exploration and Enron Cogeneration thus hiding burgeoning debt.

Another similar system is the 5-class, physics-based organology, which was presented in 2007 by Steve Mann ( Natural Infaces for Musical Expression, Proceedings of the Conference on Interfaces for Musical Expression, pp. 118 – 23 ), comprises Gaiaphones ( Chordophones, Membranophones, and Idiophones ), Hydraulophones, Aerophones, Plasmaphones, and Quintephones ( electrically and optically produced music ), the names referring to the 5 essences, being earth, water, wind, fire, and the quintessence, thus adding 3 new categories to the Schaeffner taxonomy.

Natural or " brute " facts exist independently of language ; thus a " mountain " is a mountain in every language and in no language ; it simply is what it is.

Natural stone quarried from the earth is often considered a luxury and tends to be a highly durable surface, thus a highly desirable commodity.

The trail thus passes through the land of various owners, including the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Ice Age Trail Alliance, and hundreds of private citizens.

' Natural laws were thus the statutes of a well governed universe that had been decreed by the Creator with the intention of promoting human happiness.

The town sits in the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is part of the London commuter belt, thus the average cost of housing in the town is very high.

They defended the title against the Natural Disasters at WrestleMania VIII and lost the match by countout, thus retaining the title.

In 1930, Parliament passed the Natural Resources Acts, turning over the control of public lands and resources in the prairies to the provinces, thus relinquishing its right to the lands.

Natural infection with RSV induces protective immunity which wanes over time — possibly more so than other respiratory viral infections — and thus people can be infected multiple times.

The Covenant was unilaterally amended by the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 CNRA approved by the U. S. Congress on May 8, 2008, thus altering the CNMI ’ s immigration system.

" Functional Food is a Natural or processed food that contains known biologically-active compounds which when in defined quantitative and qualitative amounts provides a clinically proven and documented health benefit, and thus, an important source in the prevention, management and treatment of chronic diseases of the modern age ".

According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, Othniel Charles Marsh first believed Miohippus lived during the Miocene and thus named the genus using this incorrect conclusion.

One mechanism by which MUC16 aids in the growth of tumors is by suppressing the response of Natural killer cells, thus protecting cancer cells from the immune response.

Natural rock, because it is created by coral polyps, takes many years if not centuries to form, and is a vital habitat for countless marine species ; thus, commercial-scale harvesting of naturally-occurring live rock has been criticized by conservationists.

The Natural Step's framework for sustainability provides principles that are grounded in science, and thus measurable.