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Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Natural history
ISBN : BL:A0022683351
Author : William 1743-1805 Paley,James 1786-1860 Paxton,John 1795-1864 Ed Ware
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1372195386
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Author : William Paley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199535750
William Paley set out to prove the existence of God from the evidence of the beauty and order of the natural world. This edition sets his work in the context of the theological, philosophical, and scientific debates of the nineteenth century.
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6S7E
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1936830272
More than two hundred years ago, Dr. William Paley wrote a series of books that marshaled evidence for the Christian faith. His books were often required reading at major institutions of learning. Believers and unbelievers alike wrestled with Paley's arguments and his compelling presentation of them. Paley's Natural Theology was one of those books. In it, he showed from biology and human anatomy that the argument for design was a clear and self-evident inference from the facts, and from that point of departure proposed that only a designer God could adequately account for those facts. His famous analogy from an intricate watch to the required deduction that there exists a watchmaker persists to this day. When evolutionary theory rose to dominance, it was thought that Paley's views on 'intelligent design' had been fully put to rest. However, each new generation discovers anew that evolutionary theory requires them to accept as true what appears, on its face, to be patently absurd: that immense complexity, surpassing in its apparent genius what 1,000 human geniuses cannot create was nonetheless the product of unguided, intrinsically dumb, natural forces. Unsatisfied, they consider the alternatives. The argument is sure to rage for another two hundred years and Dr. Paley's Natural Theology will prove to be relevant then as it is relevant today, advances in our understanding of biology notwithstanding, and, actually, because of those very same advances. "I do not think I hardly ever admired a book more than Paley's Natural Theology: I could almost formerly have said it by heart." Charles Darwin, 1859.
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1802
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015013090330
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Natural history
ISBN : NYPL:33433068182033
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979290946
Paley's examination of Christian theology identifies and attributes aspects of human physiology to divine creation, arguing that the appearance of man itself is a basis upon which we can determine the existence of God. This edition includes the author's anatomical illustrations. The book commences with the famous watchmaker analogy - the proposition that if you find a watch, you must assume there is a watchmaker. Going further, Paley points out that such a maker must have specifics of design in mind, and intentions for his creation. It follows therefore that all animals and humankind, as complex organisms, are creations; the middle chapters of the book sequentially examine aspects of human and creature anatomy which support this assertion. Paley conducts a wide-ranging investigation, wherein plants, birds, insects, mammals, humans and others are shown to be peculiar and thus a part of God's creation. The distinctness of certain organs, the valves of the heart, the intricacy of the skeletal musculature, and - in insects - the stings of wasps and probosces of bees, are cited in support of the overarching argument. Finally the astronomical heavens are mentioned as a sign of the creator's dazzling and intricate ability. The later chapters of the book are more overtly theological in tone; in particular, Paley is concerned with the personality of God. What attributes the creator might have, how great his abilities of planning and arrangement are, and how his being is essentially good since his creations can experience happiness and enjoy their existences. In the modern day, Natural Theology continues to be consulted both by creationists and by those seeking to understand the arguments of creationism. It is also read by modern scientists and atheists, that they may understand and counter the creationist arguments they disagree with.
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Natural history
ISBN : RMS:RMS2LBIF000040195$$$M
Author : William Paley,Frederick Le Gros Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Natural theology
ISBN : BL:A0022679047
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Natural history
ISBN : HARVARD:32044084821586
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UCAL:$B285588
Author : James Paxton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Natural theology
ISBN : OXFORD:600010767
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Natural history
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024219206
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781394911
Paley's work, and "Natural Theology: or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity" in particular, is admired for its rigorous and logical treatment of evidence. He examines the natural world: plants, animals, the human anatomy and the heavens, and from the intricate details he deduces the existence of a benevolent deity, primarily by the now famous watchmaker argument. Though most remembered for "Natural Theology," Paley received numerous ecclesiastical honors, including a stall in St. Paul's Cathedral, for his earlier work "Evidences of Christianity."