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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Pagina 322
... earth glides round her axle , fhe minifters to the alternate neceffities of the animals dwelling upon her surface , at the fame time that the obeys the influence of those attractions which regulate the order of many thousand worlds ...
... earth glides round her axle , fhe minifters to the alternate neceffities of the animals dwelling upon her surface , at the fame time that the obeys the influence of those attractions which regulate the order of many thousand worlds ...
Pagina 348
... . Also , Many or most of the beetle species lodge in holes in the earth , environed by hard , rough , fubftances , and have frequently to squeeze their way through narrow paffages ; in which fituation , their 348 OF INSECTS .
... . Also , Many or most of the beetle species lodge in holes in the earth , environed by hard , rough , fubftances , and have frequently to squeeze their way through narrow paffages ; in which fituation , their 348 OF INSECTS .
Pagina 356
... earth , and , having ftored it with a quantity of proper food , depofit their egg in it . In all which we are to obferve , that the ex- pedient depends , not fo much upon the ad- drefs of the animal , as upon the physical refources of ...
... earth , and , having ftored it with a quantity of proper food , depofit their egg in it . In all which we are to obferve , that the ex- pedient depends , not fo much upon the ad- drefs of the animal , as upon the physical refources of ...
Pagina 383
... earth , not a single spe- cies , perhaps , has been loft fince the creation . When nature has perfected her feeds , her next care is to disperse them . The feed can- not answer its purpofe , while it remains confined in the capfule ...
... earth , not a single spe- cies , perhaps , has been loft fince the creation . When nature has perfected her feeds , her next care is to disperse them . The feed can- not answer its purpofe , while it remains confined in the capfule ...
Pagina 384
... against decay . A grain of muftard feed has been known to lie in the earth for a hundred years ; and , as foon as it had acquired a favorable fituation , to shoot as as vigorously as if just gathered from the plant . 384 OF PLANTS .
... against decay . A grain of muftard feed has been known to lie in the earth for a hundred years ; and , as foon as it had acquired a favorable fituation , to shoot as as vigorously as if just gathered from the plant . 384 OF PLANTS .
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