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This article is appearing inProspects for Natural Theology (Washington, D.C. The Catholic University of America Press; 1992) and is printed here with permission of the press.

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Long, E.T. Experience and natural theology. Int J Philos Relig 31, 119–132 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01307987

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