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	Environmentalists are the new enemies of science
		Nature, on the other hand, is seen as a wholesome and harmonious thing that man has defiled.
		The concern to protect nature, which has found expression in the rise of environmentalist thinking, goes hand in hand with the new suspicion of science and has led to calls for stricter controls over scientific research - and for some areas of science to be banned outright.
		For the new enemies of science, radical scientific advances are seen as going against nature, and it is precisely the idealisation of nature that has brought conservatives and radicals together in their opposition to science.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /aginatur/prog3.htm (4572 words)

	St. Paul's Argument From Nature Against Homosexuality (Romans 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, [27] and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another.
		Paul is saying, then, that there is such a thing as "natural sexual relations" and its contrary, "unnatural [sexual relations]." This brings it down to the matter of natural law and God's created order, and all that that entails.
		One might say that fornication is an "ontological" sin against the moral "concept" of marriage, while homosexual sex sins both against the purpose of sex and the ontological, metaphysical, and spiritual (even physical) nature of sex itself.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ336.HTM (1232 words)

	Against Nature
		Environmental ideas of Nature are often based on a scepticism about the power of reason, and a willingness to put faith in spontaneous order precisely because one knows the limits of one's own knowledge about the working of the system.
		They argue that we have not one but many Natures, "constituted through a variety of socio-cultural processes from which such natures cannot be plausibly separated." Their argument, if I understand it correctly, is that three things will happen once we realise that the concept 'Nature' is neither 'natural' nor unitary.
		We are part of Nature, part of many Natures, and scientific analysis must always begin by assuming some pretheoretical orientation towards one of those 'Natures.' Second, we will stop both believing in and romanticising some stable set of "environmental values"; the authors' argument here was considerably foggier.
	www.law.duke.edu /boylesite/tls98nat.htm (1756 words)

	Against Nature (A Rebours) - Joris-Karl Huysmans - Penguin Group (USA)
		A wildly original fin-de-siècle novel, Against Nature follows its sole character, Des Esseintes, a decadent, ailing aristocrat who retreats to an isolated villa where he indulges his taste for luxury and excess.
		Veering between nervous excitability and debilitating ennui, he gluts his aesthetic appetites with classical literature and art, exotic jewels (with which he fatally encrusts the shell of his tortoise), rich perfumes, and a kaleidoscope of sensual experiences.
		The original handbook of decadence, Against Nature exploded “like a grenade” (in the words of its author) and has enjoyed a cult readership from its publication to the present day.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140447636,00.html (147 words)

	Crimes Against Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Crime against nature is the unnatural carnal copulation by a human being with another of the same or opposite sex or with an animal.
		Whoever commits the crime against nature shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.
		Sodomy is the carnal knowledge and connection against the order of nature, by man with man, or in the same unnatural manner with woman.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/1999/Suddenly/SodomyLaws.htm (190 words)

	Osteoporosis drugs show promise against malaria - Nature Medicine
		In addition to their activity against Plasmodium falciparum, a causative agent of malaria, the compounds, called bisphosphonates, appear to kill trypanosomes, Leishmania, and Toxoplasma gondii.
		Docampo adds, "organelles similar to acidocalcisomes, called volutin granules, have been described in bacteria and fungi," suggesting that the bisphosphonates may be useful against a wide range of pathogens.
		Having demonstrated the potential of bisphosphonates against parasites in vitro, the researchers are now testing the drugs in animal models of parasitic diseases.
	www.nature.com /cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nm/journal/v7/n4/full/nm0401_389b.html (404 words)

	Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, The Anatomy of the State
		The only "natural" course for man to survive and to attain wealth, therefore, is by using his mind and energy to engage in the production-and-exchange process.
		The fallacy of the idea becomes evident when conscription is wielded against those who refuse to "defend" themselves and are, therefore, forced into joining the State's military band: needless to add, no "defense" is permitted them against this act of "their own" State.
		The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of the government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain.
	www.mises.org /easaran/chap3.asp (9074 words)

	AlterNet: Crimes Against Nature
		Natural Resources Defense Council Posted November 25, 2003.
		As George W. Bush began his presidency, I was involved in litigation against the factory-pork industry, which is a large source of air and water pollution in America.
		Watt was a proponent of "dominion theology," an authoritarian Christian heresy that advocates man's duty to "subdue" nature.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=17252 (8248 words)

	Against Nature
		In the 17th and 18th centuries nature was broadly divided into the Wild and the Cultivated, of which the cultivated was much preferred "on grounds of both utility and aesthetics".
		The new respect for nature as a phenomenon apart took two different directions, which Baroness Warnock characterised as the scientific and the Romantic.
		By the middle of the 18th century nature was being studied and categorised in a systematic way.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2001-7/warnock.htm (598 words)

	The Anti-Globalization Movement and the War Against Nature
		This war is, of course, against the Earth; against Nature.
		Feminist writers have exposed the anti-life fundamentals of the conquest of Nature at the heart of patriarchy and the patriarchal church.
		Carolyn Merchant's "The Death of Nature" brings to light the influence of anti-life patriarchy during the critical period of the mid-17th Century.
	www.omplace.com /articles/WarAgainstNature.html (1175 words)

	BirdForum - Against nature
		But they are up against strong resistance from senior civil servants who are determined to bring English Nature - which has frequently proved to be a thorn in their flesh - under government control.
		English Nature, the Government's independent wildlife watchdog which publicly opposed genetically modified crops, is to be replaced by a new conservation body which the Government claims will be a bigger and stronger wildlife and countryside champion.
		Some conservationists claim that the Government is scrapping English Nature because it has been too independent; for example, in calling for the large-scale trials of GM crops whose results, published last month, showed that growing the crops harms farmland wildlife.
	www.birdforum.net /printthread.php?t=9792 (5145 words)

	Is socialism against "human nature"?
		Sweeping claims about human nature are often made on the basis of evolutionary biology--that is, science’s understanding of how human beings, like other species of animals, have evolved and changed over time.
		By the Marxist theory of human nature, Pinker means the view that human behavior depends on the historical and social circumstances in which people live.
		More fundamentally, the idea that human nature is basically rigid and unchanging is incompatible with what we actually know about human evolution.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/494/494_08_HumanNature.shtml (1303 words)

	against nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From the moment we realised that all things in nature follow natural laws and are not the whims of certain Gods we have had the desire to study and control this nature.
		In literature this fight against nature is often seen and read.
		The authors usually want to give the reader the impression that nature is stronger than man and that the battle will be lost.
	users.bart.nl /users/sceav/hgengels/newpage54.htm (213 words)

	Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature by Murray N. Rothbard
		The case for drastic progression in taxation must be rested on the case against inequality – on the ethical or aesthetic judgment that the prevailing distribution of wealth and income reveals a degree (and/or kind) of inequality which is distinctly evil or unlovely.
		Even egalitarians would be hard put to deny the historical record, but their answer is that "culture" has been to blame; and since they obviously hold that culture is a pure act of the will, then the goal of changing the culture and inculcating society with equality seems to be attainable.
		The egalitarian revolt against biological reality, as significant as it is, is only a subset of a deeper revolt: against the ontological structure of reality itself, against the "very organization of nature"; against the universe as such.
	www.lewrockwell.com /rothbard/rothbard31.html (4756 words)

	Against Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The forces of nature often leave a trail of devastation; but the destruction caused by Hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua and other parts of Central America in 1998 was almost unimaginable : 11,000 dead, 2 million homeless, and $10 billion in damage.
		While relief workers were deployed immediately to assess the devastation and determine what kind of help was needed, it took days to gather that information and coordinate it in a central database.
		A key element of the HEART program is working to ensure that nonprofit and government agencies involved in disaster relief share information about these new technology solutions.
	www.microsoft.com /issues/essays/2002/04-09mobile.asp (544 words)

	Journal of Social History: Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American ...
		Though often delegirimized by their more powerful opponents, and subsequently "hidden" from history, "country folk" were not ignorant defilers of Nature who indiscriminately killed animals and cleared forests without a thought for the future.
		Crimes against Nature is not an advocacy piece for the wise use movement.
		Because the management of natural resources was foundational to the growth of centralized state authority, the price of winning and losing had tremendous long term consequences that only further reified the power of narrow prejudice.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2005/is_4_35/ai_88583585 (988 words)

	A denouncement of environmentalist ideology —'Against Nature'
		Characterising environmentalist ideology as unscientific, irrational and anti-humanist, this acerbic and polemical three-part series turns 'Green' ideas on their head.
		Against Nature begins by exposing the absence of scientific rigour behind notions such as the greenhouse effect and global warming.
		It goes on to contrast densely populated, industrialised First World countries (much hated by the Greens), which have clean air, clean water and long life expectancies, with sparsely populated, largely pre-industrial countries (much loved by the Greens), which have polluted water, terrible air and far shorter life expectancies.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /aginatur/aginatur.htm (194 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Against nature
		Two years earlier, a rare type of lobster was stolen from the same zoo and its crate found beside the remains of a beach barbecue.
		In Dudley, one of the main pieces of evidence against the boys who attacked the wallabies was that they had bragged in front of one of Kates Hill's community policemen about how "funny" it was to have "killed a kangaroo".
		But now there is guarded optimism among those overseeing the programme to improve their behaviour: the boys are attending "restorative" meetings with the zoo staff, and are to do weekly menial tasks there as compensation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /animalrights/story/0,11917,1275436,00.html?=rss (1832 words)

	Montesquieu: The Crime Against Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It ought to be proscribed, were it only for its communicating to one sex the weaknesses of the other, and for leading people by a scandalous prostitution of their youth to an ignominious old age.
		As a natural circumstance of this crime is secrecy, there are frequent instances of its having been punished by legislators upon the deposition of a child.
		No stone should be left unturned as we ferret these miscreants from their filthy burrows and hang them from meathooks or piano wire, or both, or put them to death by means of the technique applied by Roger Mortimer to Edward II of England, viz., probing with a red-hot poker.
	www.anesi.com /q0027.htm (367 words)

	A Crime against Nature
		Ethiopians, who uphold the sanctity of their culture and tradition, had always believed that abortion is a culpable crime against nature.
		It is also as broad as daylight that abortions were being conducted in a certain hospital under the pretext of saving the lives of many well-heeled women who can pay it hundreds of birr for doing them the favour of killing human beings in their embryonic stage of development.
		Surely, abortion is an inexcusable crime against nature.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/11/28-11-03/A.htm (402 words)

	Offending Against Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To focus upon such a conception, aesthetic offences against nature are examined and distinguished at the outset from moral offences.
		The external outlook, conceiving nature as a thing wholly apart from us, is shown to be necessary to any view of nature being offended against.
		Central to the external outlook is a conception of nature as the victim of offence without ever being itself an offending agent.
	www.erica.demon.co.uk /EV/EV707.html (168 words)

	Crimes Against Nature
		in his new book "Crimes Against Nature," which details how President Bush has rewritten the nation’s environmental laws in favor of industry and filled his administration with former lobbyists and corporate executives who now oversee the regulation of their former industries.
		A senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council and president of the grassroots Waterkeeper Alliance, Kennedy argues that the Bush administration consistently favored corporate interests over the environment and public health, assaulting the very idea of a common good.
		One’s called the Public Trust Doctrine, which says that those assets that are by their nature shared assets -- the commonwealth, the air and water, the wildlife, public lands -- are owned by the public.
	www.motherjones.com /news/qa/2004/10/09_402.html (2323 words)

	Steely Dan: Two Against Nature (2000): Reviews
		Two Against Nature marks a timely return of two chilly, heartless hipsters.
		While Two Against Nature certainly has its moments, it doesn't catch your ear with the crafty songsmith of Steely Dan past.
		"Two Against Nature" is a good album on its own, but it simply does not hold up to the bands impossibly high standard.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/steelydan/2againstnature (455 words)

	Communism goes against human nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This argument is actually dealt with by Marx himself in the Manifesto, where he puts forward his view that there is no such thing as fixed "human nature." Human attitudes and behavior are constantly reshaped by the changing economic systems in which people find themselves.
		In many cultures prestige or authority are more highly prized than property, and competition may be expressed by acts of even radical "selflessness" such as giving away almost all one's wealth in the "potlatches" of certain northwest tribes of Native Americans.
		It was not entirely implausible to argue that if Europeans could change from believing in the divine right of kings, the necessity of permanent feudal ties, and submission to the Church, they could change further to reject individual self-interest, competition and private property as eternal truths which predominate in society.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~brians/hum_303/nature.html (319 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Against Nature (Oxford World's Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other.
		Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the vulgarity of modern life.
		Huysmans Against Nature is a thoroughly entertaining book.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192823671 (1047 words)

	AlterNet: Election 2004: Bush's Crimes Against Nature
		His new book is "Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy." On Sept. 23, he made an impromptu appearance in Eugene, Oregon.
		If you look at Natural Resource Defense Council's website, you'll see over 400 major environmental roll-backs that have been promoted by this administration during the last three and a half years, and I tell you it's part of a concerted deliberate attempt to eviscerate 30 years of environmental law.
		Americans have to understand that there is a huge difference between free market capitalism which democratizes our country which makes us more efficient, more democratic, and the kind of corporate crony capitalism which has been embraced by this administration and which is as antithetical to democracy in America as it is in Nigeria.
	www.alternet.org /election04/20124 (2312 words)

	Tishcon Files Suits Against Nature's Way, Shaklee
		The first suit was filed against Nature's Way Products, based in Springville, Utah.
		The second suit was filed against Shaklee Corp., with corporate headquarters in Pleasanton, Calif. The suit's claims include unfair competition stemming from false descriptions and representations of fact.
		CRN Steps Up Efforts Against Calif. S.B. The Council for Responsible Nutrition has increased its efforts in opposing the recurring S.B. 37 from Calif. State Sen. Jackie Speier, proclaiming the bill and its creator are too narrowly focused on dietary supplements in their attempt to protect state high school athletes.
	www.naturalproductsinsider.com /articles/261news12.html (608 words)

	Infamous Crimes Against Nature - tribe.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		2004: This is the starting point for the Infamous Crimes Against Nature camp, otherwise known as a place for Will & his friends to communicate, scheme, josh, and otherwise plan the theme camp that will be part of Moon Station Avalon.
		The idea of "Infamous Crimes Against Nature" lends itself to humorous challenges of authority, querying the nature of crime and nature.
		And yes, it is completely against any interest in sex with mintors.
	ican.tribe.net (190 words)

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