Sentences with phrase «lower orders of nature»

From this Stoeger argues that «special divine action» is really a matter of the «higher laws of nature» as they actually function, rather than as we understand them, subsuming, modifying and marshalling the «lower orders of nature»; those of physics, chemistry and biology.

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In the sixth of these Wellesley lectures, as it turns out, there is a mildly negative assessment of the concept of evolutionary emergence and «upward progress, arguing in favor of the greater significance of continuity with the «lower orders» of nature (MT 153).

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