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There are echoes here of the Garden of Eden. In this theologically-based model there is a sub-portion of Nature that is especially set out as being perfect from the anthropocentric viewpoint so long as one obeys certain rules—principal being not eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.42 In the narrative as depicted by John Milton, what was really behind God’s prohibition to Adam and Eve was really an attempt to frame the story in terms of the seventeenth century scientific revolution—putting these dynamic ideas of a changing view of Nature (cutting edge, but controversial science) into the mouth of Eve.43
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The social evolutionary attitude is also often countered by an antithetical devolutionary attitude. In the former account, people expect that human life in Nature will always improve.47 There is much incentive among most politicians around the world to trumpet this possibility. That’s how they stay in power (so long as they are a part of the traditional ruling party).