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  2. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    The basic idea of a ranking of the world's organisms goes back to Aristotle's biology. In his History of Animals , where he ranked animals over plants based on their ability to move and sense, and graded the animals by their reproductive mode, live birth being "higher" than laying cold eggs, and possession of blood, warm-blooded mammals and ...

  3. Jacobean era - Wikipedia

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    The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. [1] The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era.

  4. Magic and religion - Wikipedia

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    However using the word 'magic' alongside 'religion' is one method of trying to understand the supernatural world, even if some other term can eventually take its place. [4] It is a postulate of modern anthropology, at least since early 1930s, that there is complete continuity between magic and religion. Robert Ranulph Marett (1932) said:

  5. Argument from reason - Wikipedia

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    Other critics have objected that Lewis's argument from reason fails because the causal origins of beliefs are often irrelevant to whether those beliefs are rational, justified, warranted, etc. Anscombe, for example, argues that "if a man has reasons, and they are good reasons, and they are genuinely his reasons, for thinking something—then ...

  6. Religious naturalism - Wikipedia

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    Religious responses to the beauty, order, and importance of nature (as the conditions that enable all forms of life) When the term religious is used with respect to religious naturalism, it is understood in a general way—separate from the beliefs or practices of specific established religions, but including types of questions, aspirations, values, attitudes, feelings, and practices that are ...

  7. Jacobin (politics) - Wikipedia

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    This included establishing the world's first universal military draft as a solution to filling army ranks to put down civil unrest and prosecute war. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Jacobin dictatorship was known for enacting the Reign of Terror, which targeted speculators, monarchists , right-wing Girondin , Hébertists , and traitors, and led to many ...

  8. Problem of the creator of God - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy, the problem of the creator of God is the controversy regarding the hypothetical cause responsible for the existence of God, on the assumption God exists.It contests the proposition that the universe cannot exist without a creator by asserting that the creator of the Universe must have the same restrictions.

  9. Conceptions of God - Wikipedia

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    Some believe the question of the existence of any god is most likely unascertainable or unknowable (agnosticism). Some believe God is a metaphor for a transcendent reality. Some believe in a female god (goddess), a passive god (Deism), an Abrahamic god, or a god manifested in nature or the universe (pantheism).