Galileo was a student of the Bible who presented an interpretation
essentially Protestant in his "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina."
Kepler was a devout Lutheran, so serious about his faith that he refused
the professorship at Bologna because he would have to go to mass at least
once. I grant that he was refused the sacrament because the local pastor
thought him a crypto-Calvinist. Wasn't it Kepler who said he was thinking
God's thoughts after him?
Dave
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 08:46:31 -0600 James Mahaffy <mahaffy@mtcnet.net>
writes:
> 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?
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