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Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin
The Way of the Argument from Design
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Turning Points in Natural Theology from Bacon to Darwin
The Way of the Argument from Design
About this book
Discusses crucial moments in the historical development of natural theology in England from the time of Francis Bacon to that of Charles Darwin. While the argument from design remains the rhetorical method of choice for natural theologians throughout the three centuries in question, the locus and object of design undergo a change.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface: An Argument about the Argument from Design
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Natural Theology, Leading up to Bacon
- 1 Getting Back to the Garden and the Temple: Bacon, the Design of the Creature, Deferral, and Instauration
- 2 Leaving Bacon Behind: Robert Boyle’s Legacy and the Mechanization of Natural Theology
- 3 The Second Moses Reconsidered, or, Back to Bacon and Beyond: Mosaic Natural Theology in the Age of Newton
- 4 Systems within or Connected to Systems: From Newton to Paley
- 5 From Paley to Darwin: Systems and the Ramifications of Design
- Epilogue: Intelligent Design?
- Notes
- Index