The Advancement of Learning
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The Advancement of Learning (full title: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human) is a 1605 book by Francis Bacon
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quoted Bacon's The Advancement of Learning on the theology of natural laws
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Darwin's aim was to set a context relating theology to nature, harmonising science and religion in accordance with Isaac Newton
's belief in a rational God who established a law-abiding cosmos. The quote associated Darwin's work with Bacon’s aim of a continuing investigation both of the Bible and of nature
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, KC was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and pioneer of the scientific method. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England...
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Darwin
On page ii of On the Origin of Species, Charles DarwinCharles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
quoted Bacon's The Advancement of Learning on the theology of natural laws
Physical law
A physical law or scientific law is "a theoretical principle deduced from particular facts, applicable to a defined group or class of phenomena, and expressible by the statement that a particular phenomenon always occurs if certain conditions be present." Physical laws are typically conclusions...
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Darwin's aim was to set a context relating theology to nature, harmonising science and religion in accordance with Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
's belief in a rational God who established a law-abiding cosmos. The quote associated Darwin's work with Bacon’s aim of a continuing investigation both of the Bible and of nature
Nature
Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
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