Supernatural Naturalist

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“If there is a quest for scientific facts about the origin of life, then can’t that also be considered a search for god, if “god” is understood to be “creator”? If the quest of science is to find out what we came from, or “how we got here,” then finding the answer isn’t that much different than finding religion. All theories — scientific as well as religious — involve at least some faith in their until they’re proven — it’s just that some people believe in the lab and use it to test their hypotheses, while others believe in the Word.” Angela Watercutter Prometheus Poses Eternal Questions About Science, Creationism, Wired Magazine, www.wired.com (website) https://www.wired.com/2012/06/prometheus-science-faith-creationism/

“SUPERNATURAL” The supernatural (Medieval Latin: supernātūrālis: supra “above” + naturalis “nature”), is that which is said to exist above and beyond nature. In philosophy, popular culture and fiction, the supernatural is associated with the paranormal, religions as well as invisible phenomena.

“NATURALIST” This project aim is to try to combine conflicts of science, faith, questions about origins of man, nature and everything super+natural. The project is inspired by nature, botany and study of plants, climate and environmental change, flora, early herbalism, Darwinism, creationism, and intelligent design, fantasy. English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin, (1809-1882), is best known for his contributions to evolutionary theory. He closed a perceived chasm between humans and animals. His theory of natural selection changed people’s perception of themselves from specially hand made by God to being just another animal evolved from animals. Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), was German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist. Darwin and Haeckel explored the origin of the human species and whether we have makers who share our DNA. During his life Darwin embarked on an exotic five-year expedition called Voyage of Beagle, investigating geology, observing nature, botany, tropical forests, making natural history collections, theorized about geology and extinction of giant mammals, transmutations, and the act of creation and human origins. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin’s work in Germany. He published artwork of over 100 detailed, multicolored illustrations of animals and sea creatures. As a philosopher, Ernst Haeckel wrote Die

Haeckel (left) with Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, his assistant, in the Canaries, 1866 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Haeckel


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