In the Reverend John Ray's natural philosophy:
A) the world was fixed at creation and has not changed substantially since
B) the world changed through natural processes of evolution
C) the world is stable for long periods and then changes drastically as the result of catastrophes caused directly by God
D) the world has been decaying steadily since creation

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Reverend John Ray, a 17th-century naturalist, believed in the fixity of species, meaning he thought the world and its species were created by God in their current form and have not changed substantially since. This view aligns with the idea that the world was fixed at creation.

In the Reverend John Ray's Natural Philosophy