The great early modern defenders of science (men like Baruch Spinoza, Thomas Hobbes, and David Hume) understood that the belief in miracles was an obstacle to the advance of human knowledge, keeping alive the possibility that the findings of scientific investigation are at most provisionally true — true only so long as God doesnt act within the world in a way that contravenes natural necessity. Thats why these and other partisans of the Enlightenment actively sought to explain (or rather, to explain away) miracles and undermine popular belief in them. They recognized that a universe in which miracles are possible is a world in which science, strictly understood, is impossible. Eg eri ósamdur við Spinoza, Hobbes og Hume har. Um undur eru undantøk ella brot onkursvegna á vanligu náttúrulógirnar, so eru undur eisini ein sterk viðurkenning av júst hesum vanligu náttúrulógum. Og tað undirgrevur á ongan hátt vísindaliga projektið at kanna vanligu náttúrulógirnar og koma at kenna tær betri. Áhugaverd grein tó.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 00:15:02 +0000
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