Paley, William

Paley, William. Natural Theology. Rev. Amer. ed. New York Sheldon, 1854. 

In recent times, the challenges of creationists and their attacks on educational institutions in the United States led to some novel scrutiny of this view. There is nothing new in the arguments of the creationists since the writing by William Paley, the Anglican priest who became famous for having introduced one of the... 

One of the books which most impressed the young Darwin was the treatise of theologian William Paley, Natural Theology Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes oftheDeity, Collectedfrom the Appearances of Nature (1802). The main point was put forward in this way ... 

Matthew D. Eddy is lecturer in the history and philosophy of science and an associate of the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease at the University of Durham. He has most recently held fellowships at the Dibner Institute (MIT), Harvard University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and with the University of Notre Dame s Erasmus Institute. He has written numerous articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century intellectual history. Most recently he has edited (with David M. Knight) Science and Belief From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700-1900 (2005) and William Paley s Natural Theology (2006). He is currently writing a book on the interactions between medicine, philosophy, and science in Enlightenment Edinburgh. 

W. Paley. Natural Theology (1802). In The Works of William Paley, ed. R.Lynam. Edinburgh Baynes and Son (1825). 

William Paley s Natural Theology (1802), the classic statement of the clockwork metaphor, will be pubhshed in a new edition, ed. M.D. Eddy and D.M. Knight, Oxford UP, 2006. 

Genetics Institute (23). In December 1980, a company called Genetics Institute was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Two scientists from Harvard, Hark Ptashne and Tom Manlatls, will serve as principal scientific advisers to the company and will also serve on its board of directors. The company has more than 5 million in capital other members of its board of directors Include William Paley of CBS and Benno Schmidt of J. H. Whitney. 

After the project fell through, CBS once more expressed interest in Fleming s work. This time, the author was recmited not only by Hubell Robinson, the network s head of programs at the time, but by CBS chief William Paley. The series, to be sponsored by Ford Motor Company (who would later be involved in the birth of U.N.C.L.E.), was to feature the actual James Bond character. Fleming wrote plot outlines for 13 episodes, recycling some of the material he d prepared for the earlier Commander... 

Every one of us stumbles across mysteries in nature. Before Darwin, William Paley told a famous story of discovering a watch in the grass of an English meadow. Paley said finding life is like finding that watch. Here we have the same island and metaphor, but with very different implications. 

William E. Carswell, Mark S. Paley, Donald O. Frazier, and Robert J. Naumann ... 

Feser, E. (2013). Between Aristotle and William Paley Aquinas s fifth way. Nova et... 

Two hundred years ago the human understanding of both technology and biology was in its infancy. Even then, however, William Paley gave this metaphor about life based only on the biological mechanisms which were known at the time ... 

William Paley, Natural Theology or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. Beginning of chapter II. State of Argument Continued, 1809... 

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