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From www.theisticscience.org/biology/theistic.htm

Theistic Biology

The dispositions and powers (life) that biological creatures receive from the Divine Source depends on their form (see the general principle). This raises many interesting questions and creates investigations about biological structures and functions, both at the anatomical and the biochemical levels.

General Aspects

More biological discussion is in the papers online at the site highermeaning.org, especially:

Medicine

Human Functional Form

Overview article: The General Human Form by Bruce Jarvis

See outline of Spiritual and Natural Correspondences

For more details, see the book 'Physiological Correspondences'  by John Worcester, with chapters:

Introduction

Supra-Renal Capsules    

Cartilages

Lips, Tongue & Teeth

Kidneys

Skin

Saliva

Peritonaeum

Hair

Oesophagus

Heart and the Lungs

Hands

Stomach

Nose

Feet

Intestines

Organs of Speech

Ear

Mesentery

Pleura

Eye

Liver

Diaphragm

Generation & Regeneration

Spleen and the Pancreas   

Muscles in General

Brain

Omentum

Bones

(Whole book as 1 file)

Another general and more recent book is The Natural Basis of Spiritual Reality by Norman J. Berridge, with chapters:

I
New Ideas in Accordance with Cherished Beliefs
II
Seeing and Understanding Require the Light of Truth from God
III
Thinking from Correspondences
IV

Correspondence of the Heart and Lungs--Part 1.The Church and the Human Race

V
Correspondence of the Heart and Lungs--Part 2. The Will and the Understanding 
VI
Correspondence of the Heart and Lungs--Part 3. Conjunctions Between the Will and the Understanding 
VII
Correspondence of the Heart and Lungs--Part 4. The Giving of a New Will
VIII
The Lymphatic System
IX
The Spleen
X
The Thymus Gland 
XI
The Brain--Part 1
XII
The Brain--Part 2. The Infundibulum and the Hypophysis Cerebri 
XIII 
The Brain--Part 3. Decussations
XIV
Correspondences of the Eye
XV
Correspondences of the Ears and the Organs of Balance or Orientation 
XVI 
Perceptions, Delights, Odors, and the Sense of Smell
XVII
Earing and Digestion--Part 1. A Brief Account of Bodily Digestion
XVIII
Eating and Digestion--Part 2. Correspondences of Digestion
XIX
The Interface Between the Spiritual and the Physical
 A1
Appendix One: Sight, The Visual Process, and Doctrine
A2
Appendix Two: Sight, The Visual Process, and Doctrine
 B
Bibliography

Evolution

See Biological Evolution for the operation of evolution in Theistic Science, continuing the previous discussion about Creationism:

  • A. Acton. "Evolution"   An overview of several major theories derived from the Writings’ teachings.

  • G. Doering. "Evolution"   Focuses on discrete degrees in putting together a model, and notes some logical problems involving evil men and beasts.

  • L.H. Edmiston. "Creation of humankind: a Divinely ordered evolutionary process"     Makes some fascinating points from the Writings, notably that the evolutionists have it backward, that achieving the human form was the aim of evolution (under Divine guidance) from the outset, not what evolution arrived at, accidentally, at the end.

  • C. Gyllenhaal-Davis. "Chance, evolution and the New Word"    A review of just how subtle the influence of Providence, in the form of "chance," can be in bringing about "evolution."

  • D. Pendleton. "Evolution"    Draws a parallel between the original implantation of a human soul in a body at creation and the implantation of Christ's soul at His conception in Mary.

  • M. R. Carlson. "Evolution, the limbus and hereditary evil"   Reviews both scientific and doctrinal aspects of evolution, noting the problems with the natural selection idea (as well as the spiritual dangers of purely external "nature created itself" theory), and proposes a new doctrinal/scientific approach to the whole issue, including a new view of hereditary evil, with a tie-in to Sheldrake’s "morphogenetic fields" concept.

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