At 08:46 AM 12/28/2000 -0600, James Mahaffy wrote:
>Folks,
>
>In a recent post Moorad Alexanian said,
>"The foundation of modern science was laid down by devout Christians
>(Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Maxwell, Planck, etc.) who studied nature to
>know more about its Creator."
>
>Maybe a philosopher of science can help me - but I was under the
>impression that this was the time of British natural theology when the
>paradigm was that the world cam into being by a God and you were finding
>and his laws etc. in your investigation. Even non Christians worked in
>that framework. Weren't some of these chaps more deists than folks that
>believed in Christ as their Savior?
Newton certainly was no deist. He wrote commentaries on Daniel and
Revelation that are still awesome in their insights.
Art
http://geology.swau.edu
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