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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:

• The Correspondence of Photosynthesis, by Erland J. Brock
• Correspondences of the Developing Human Form by Linda Simonetti Odhner
• A Molecular Marriage: A Metaphorical Look at DNA Structure and Function by Allan Bedford (pdf)

Medicine

• Mehmet Oz Finds His Teacher

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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