Tag: natural theology
Uncovering the Hidden Mathematical Structure of the Universe
Genuine human rationality would not exist if a naturalistic account of the human mind were correct.
Thinking God’s Thoughts: Kepler and Cosmic Comprehensibility
Melissa Cain Travis traces the intellectual pedigree of Johannes Kepler’s ideas all the way back to the ancients.
The Return of Natural Theology
Influenced by a long line of materialist thinkers, Charles Darwin proposed the mechanism of natural selection as a substitute for God.
Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy
Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model.
Darwin, Wordsworth, and Natural Theology
I give here a short sample of just one of the passages in “Tintern Abbey” where Wordsworth reports undergoing what might be described as a moment of epiphany.