For Galileo, Kepler, Boyle and Newton, “God-did-it” did not - TopicsExpress



          

For Galileo, Kepler, Boyle and Newton, “God-did-it” did not function as a “science stopper”, a phrase that explained away mysterious phenomena. The forerunners of science believed that theism explained why the universe was well ordered and structured. This order and structure was a necessary condition for scientific discovery. But they also knew that theistic belief alone could not tell us the exact form of the universe’s structure; it could not reveal how God had ordered the world. Observation, measurement and experiment were necessary for a thorough understanding of His creation. saintsandsceptics.org/science-history-and-the-myths-of-new-atheism/
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:36:02 +0000

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