Sentences with phrase «biblical law over»

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It was, then, over two decades before he published Origin of Species that Darwin replaced biblical literalism with a «more simple and sublime» theology, one in which God is viewed as ordaining that creation operate without interference, through the natural law that he established.

To win over popular support, the Company turned to Hugo Grotius (1583 - 1645), then only twenty - one years old and too new to the practice of law to have been hired to handle the Santa Catarina litigation itself, but already renown throughout Europe for his prodigious erudition, his knowledge of the wisdom and practices of nations from biblical and classical times.