For my perspective, even if you understand God to be the creator of the world, I don't think that means that God is causing a certain natural event to happen at certain time.

从我的角度来说，即使你明白,上帝是世界的创造者，但这并不意味着上帝,导致了某个自然界的现象在特定的时间发生。

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He is part of his own phantasmagoria and we adore him because nature has grown intelligible, and by doing so a part of our creative power.

他是自己幻影中的一部分,我们崇拜他因为自然而变得易懂，我们也理解自己的创造力。

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Reason, science, art is the capacity to transform nature by making it, imposing on it, a method that will produce like effects after similar consequences.

理性，科学，艺术是一种能力,是通过创造，施加影响力改变自然的能力，是一种在类似的结果发生后,产生类似结果的能力。

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But for Hobbes, think of this by contrast, art does not so much imitate nature, rather art can create a new kind of nature, an artificial nature, an artificial person, as it were.

但是霍布斯不一样，他认为艺术并不是自然的模仿物，不如说艺术可以创造一种新式的自然，人造的自然，就像人的创造。

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