title: “The creature was made subject to vanity not willingly”: The controversy over the influence of the Fall on living nature and the rise of paleontology
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metadata.value: Khramov, Alexander V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-26T09:50:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-26T09:50:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-09
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metadata.value: Khramov A. V. “The creature was made subject to vanity not willingly”: The controversy over the influence of the Fall on living nature and the rise of paleontology. Issues of Theology, 2022, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 376–397.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu28.2022.303
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37894
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This paper deals with discussions sparked by the scientific advances of paleontology
  in the first half of the 19th century on whether predation and animal death should be
  linked to the Fall of man. The history of the belief in paradisiacal vegetarianism and
  animal peace, which could be traced back to the writings of Early Church fathers, is
  briefly discussed. The paper discusses the argumentation of W. Buckland, E. Hitchcock,
  H. Miller, and other men of science and theologians, who accepted the fact,
  which became evident from the fossil record, that death and predation prevailed
  in the living nature from the beginning, and struggled to conceive it in the Christian
  terms. Light is shed on the early pictorial representations of prehistoric life,
  which accentuated ferocity of the primeval world in stark contrast to the traditional
  view on the prelapsarian harmony between animals. The attitudes of those who
  persisted in defending the belief in peaceful animal relationships in paradise despite
  of findings of paleontology are explored. The main exponents of the latter view
  could be found among the “scriptural geologists”, the early predecessors of presentday
  Young Earth creationists. The attempt by the Scottish theologian W. Gillespie
  to explain the existence of predation in prehistoric animals by the Fall of Satan is
  reviewed. It can be concluded that the revision of Christian doctrine of the earthly
  paradise had been well underway in the pre-Darwinian age and was accomplished
  with the triumph of evolutionism.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research according
  to the research project No. 21-011-44042.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Issues of Theology;Volume 4; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the Fall
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: evolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: paradise
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: six days of creation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Genesis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: science and religion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “The creature was made subject to vanity not willingly”: The controversy over the influence of the Fall on living nature and the rise of paleontology
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metadata.value: Article
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