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  • John Finnis, like Robert George a well known proponent of Natural Law theory, rather disarmingly announces that ˜Natural Law theory is nothing other than the account of all the reasons-for-action which people ought to be able to accept, precisely because these are good, valid and sound as reasons.™

    The Limits of Law Stanton-Ife, John 2006

  • (Last Inadequate forecasting facilities year forest fire, this year forest fire) Decrease rainfall, snowfall and increase of temperature will Unplanned settlement; development of settlements and increase the incidence of drought. public services in hazardous areas and marginal lands Deforestation/More dependency on natural resources Acts Inadequate awareness and concentration of Natural

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

  • None of this negates Darwin, and it certainly doesn't negate evolution (which farmers and breeders have been causing through Artificial Selection through Millennia - where else did Darwin get the term Natural Selection, anyway?)

    "Creation" Producer: Theory of Evolution Too Provocative for America? 2009

  • None of this negates Darwin, and it certainly doesn't negate evolution (which farmers and breeders have been causing through Artificial Selection through Millennia - where else did Darwin get the term Natural Selection, anyway?)

    "Creation" Producer: Theory of Evolution Too Provocative for America? 2009

  • I find you use the term Natural Selection in two senses -- (1) for the simple preservation of favourable and rejection of unfavourable variations, in which case it is equivalent to "survival of the fittest";

    Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant

  • Several writers have misapprehended or objected to the term Natural

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Now, I think this arises almost entirely from your choice of the term Natural Selection, and so constantly comparing it in its effects to man’s selection, and also to your so frequently personifying nature as ‘selecting’, as ‘preferring’ . . . etc., etc.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Now, I think this arises almost entirely from your choice of the term Natural Selection, and so constantly comparing it in its effects to man’s selection, and also to your so frequently personifying nature as ‘selecting’, as ‘preferring’ . . . etc., etc.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

  • Is it possible to link them with those great lines running through the visible universe which we call the Natural Laws, or are they fundamentally distinct?

    Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

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