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Linnaeus was no full-blown evolutionist. On the contrary, he heartily

embraced the prevailing creationist view of biological origins, which

stipulated that studying nature reveals evidence for the creative powers

and mysterious orderliness of God. He wasn�t such a pious man, though,

that he sought nothing but godliness in the material world. Here�s what

makes him a hero for our time: he treasured the diversity of nature for

its theological edification, and he hungered to embrace every possible bit

of it within his own mind.

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Linnaeus was no full-blown evolutionist.
Linnaeus, the famous scientist who gave us the modern system of classifying animals and plants, was not a firm believer in evolution.

On the contrary, he heartily embraced the prevailing creationist view of biological origins, which stipulated that studying nature reveals evidence for the creative powers and mysterious orderliness of God.
Rather, Linnaeus was a firm believer in creationism, a view of the origins of life on Earth that says that we should study nature to discover evidence of God's power to create, and his wonderful sense of order in the universe.

He wasn�t such a pious man, though, that he sought nothing but godliness in the material world.
But Linnaeus was not so religious that he looked for only godliness in the material world.

Here�s what makes him a hero for our time: he treasured the diversity of nature for its theological edification, and he hungered to embrace every possible bit of it within his own mind.
This is what makes him a hero to us: he treasured the diversity of nature for what it can teach us about religious matters, and he was eager to learn and comprehend all of it himself.
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