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Natural theology

Type of theology providing arguments for the existence of God based on reason and ordinary experience of nature (as opposed to revealed theology, based on scripture and/or religious experience, or transcendental theology, based on a priori reasoning)

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  • Natural theology; or, evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity / Collected from the appearances of nature. By William Paley.

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    Natural theology / by John Bascom.

    Bascom, John, 1827-1911. | Date: 1880
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    Animal and vegetable physiology : considered with reference to natural theology / by Peter Mark Roget.

    Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869. | Date: 1839
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    Evolution and the Victorians : science, culture and politics in Darwin's Britain / Jonathan Conlin.

    Conlin, Jonathan | Date: 2014
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    The hand: its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design / by Sir Charles Bell.

    Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842. | Date: 1833
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    On the adaptation of external nature to the physical condition of man: principally with reference to the supply of his wants and the exercise of his intellectual faculties / By John Kidd.

    Kidd, John, 1775-1851. | Date: 1836

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