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SSFT Marsch MidtermJocelyn Bell Burnell - answer- discovered first radio pulsars (LGM)
- people thought it was aliens
- shows the role of curiosity
Andrew Dickson White - answer-"A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in
Christendom"
- Warfare Model proponent
John William Draper - answer19th century American philosopher/historian whose
influential History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science skews and fabricates
historical data in order to popularize the myth of the fundamental historical conflict
between Christianity and scientific progress
Auguste Comte - answer Pioneered the Warfare Model
theological/metaphysical/positive phases
theological phase was fetishism/polytheism/monotheism
Stephen Jay Gould - answer- Big NOMA guy
- Was an atheist, but understood that faith was not an enemy.
- He sees faith as another way of knowing
Galileo - answer- Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a
telescope to study the stars
- Two Books Model: book of the word (special revelation) and the book of nature
(general revelation)
- The interaction of science and nature
Francis Bacon - answer- (1561-1626) English politician, writer. Formalized the empirical
method. Inductive reasoning.
- Two Books Model: book of the word (special revelation) and the book of nature
(general revelation)
Fang Lizhi - answer- Chinese cosmologist, dissident, and atheist
- "Judeo-Christian doctrines affirmed that the entire universe was the work of a single
Creator. Such a view may have fostered the theory that the heavens were uniform."
Louis Berkhof - answerExplained love as "the perfection of God by which He is moved
to self-communication eternally"
John Polkinghorne - answer- The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and
Theology of Eschatology
, - Natural laws show a dying world. Yet the Bible promises a renewal & glorification of
creation. Thus your response to this reveals your world view, as either a problem or a
confirmation.
- "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in uncovering the structure of the
physical world- a hint of the presence of the creator. We are made in his image."
C. S. Lewis - answer- "The Abolition of Man"
- Final stage of man's "conquest of nature" is the subjugation of humanity.
- "Human nature will be the last part of nature to surrender to man."
Calvin DeWitt - answerCreation Mandates Four Principles
- "Earth-Keeping Principle"
- "Sabbath Principle"
- "Fruitfulness Principle"
- "Fulfillment and Limits Principle"
Thales - answerwas an Ionian, the 1st of the "7 wisest Greeks". He said Universe made
of water.
Pythagoras - answer• Mathematician
• More mystical than any other Ionians
• Earth was spherical
• Acoustics- relationship of string length and tension with frequency
• Pythagorean theorem
• Religious thought, numerology
• Still influential
Plato - answer- student of Socrates, believed physical objects were imperfect
representations of their ideal nature (form), teleological conception of reality
a. Neither Plato or Aristotle liked excessively materialist philosophies.
b. The Demiurge
c. Relationship to matter
d. The Transcendent Forms
e. Changeless, perfect Ideas
f. But the "shadows" can change
g. The senses not good guides, but detect real changes
h. The Demiurge is benevolent and rational
i. Many Christians use Plato's philosophy, and mathematicians often like it too
.j. But it's a "top-down" way of knowing: deductive
Aristotle - answer- Student of Plato. More grounded in the real world than Plato.
Important in the medieval era.• Starts with the senses
- Starts with individual things to learn general properties of that kind of thing: excellent
zoologist.
- He's organic.
- Creation has a purpose- things were made for a reason
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