Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of NatureR. Faulder, 1802 - 586 pagina's "In this book the theologian William Paley postulates that God's existence can be divined from the complexity and beauty of the design of the universe, a discipline called "natural theology." Natural theology is a branch of theology that emerged in the late eighteenth century and is based on reason and ordinary experience, explaining God rationally, as part of the physical world." |
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... variety : yet , in a multitude of cafes , are not less evidently mechanical , not lefs evidently contrivances , not lefs evidently ac- commodated to their end , or fuited to their office , than are the most perfect productions of human ...
... variety : yet , in a multitude of cafes , are not less evidently mechanical , not lefs evidently contrivances , not lefs evidently ac- commodated to their end , or fuited to their office , than are the most perfect productions of human ...
Pagina 51
... variety of effects fo great . " In another volume of the Tranfactions above referred to , and of the fame year , two most curious cafes are related , of perfons who retained the sense of hearing , not in a perfect , but in a very ...
... variety of effects fo great . " In another volume of the Tranfactions above referred to , and of the fame year , two most curious cafes are related , of perfons who retained the sense of hearing , not in a perfect , but in a very ...
Pagina 62
... variety be fuch , and may fo over- power apparent blemishes , as to induce us , up- on the most reasonable ground , to believe , that these last ought to be referred to fome caufe , though we be ignorant of it , other than defect of ...
... variety be fuch , and may fo over- power apparent blemishes , as to induce us , up- on the most reasonable ground , to believe , that these last ought to be referred to fome caufe , though we be ignorant of it , other than defect of ...
Pagina 68
... variety ; millions of other bodily forms and other spe- cies having perished , being by the defect of their conftitution incapable of preservation , or of continuance by generation . Now there is no foundation whatever for this ...
... variety ; millions of other bodily forms and other spe- cies having perished , being by the defect of their conftitution incapable of preservation , or of continuance by generation . Now there is no foundation whatever for this ...
Pagina 69
... variety of animals might have exifted which do not exift . Upon the fuppofition here ftated , we fhould fee unicorns and mermaids , fylphs and centaurs ; the fancies of painters and the fa- bles of poets realized by examples . Or , if ...
... variety of animals might have exifted which do not exift . Upon the fuppofition here ftated , we fhould fee unicorns and mermaids , fylphs and centaurs ; the fancies of painters and the fa- bles of poets realized by examples . Or , if ...
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