Going all the way back to the famous philosopher Thales of Miletus, Naturalism became one of the first philosophies ever to explain natural phenomenons and miracles without using celestial or metaphysical causes as reasons. L. Russ Bush defined naturalism as, “the belief that in the final analysis, nature is all that there is, and that ‘nature’ is essentially unmodified by anything other than itself” (Bush, 2003). So in other words, he basically was saying man viewed nature as thought it was the ultimate reality. Despite the fact that it was very similar to the proposition of the Enlightenment. Naturalism put nature over God, rather than scientific reasoning. Furthermore, Naturalism was introduced into a time period and to a culture that was
