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Wheaton IL: Crossway, c1994, 298 pp
Description
This Turning Pointbook surveys the development of science and its historic and present relationship to Christianity, and re-introduces believers to their rich intellectual heritage.
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LibraryThing member delenburg
This is one of the Top 10 books I've ever read. It changed my thinking dramatically in helping unwind the Darwinist indoctrination I received in my liberal arts education at Austin College where I graduated in 1989 with a degree in Physics. I've given away my copy and repurchased it more than once.
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In fact, I can't seem to find a copy of it now and have tagged it as lost. I'd like to get another copy and read it again. It is just that good. Show Less
LibraryThing member jkepler
This excellent book traces the history of the philosophy of science as it relates to the Christian faith, and it makes the case that modern science developed in western culture because the biblical view of the cosmos--that it is (1) orderly, and (2) contingent (i.e., it could have been
If the world doesn't have an order than can be understood by people, then why bother with science?
If the way the cosmos exists is the only possible was things could be, then experiments are not needed - just sit in your armchair, think logically, and you'll figure it all out.
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otherwise)--is the only foundation strong enough to allow scientific enterprise to flourish.If the world doesn't have an order than can be understood by people, then why bother with science?
If the way the cosmos exists is the only possible was things could be, then experiments are not needed - just sit in your armchair, think logically, and you'll figure it all out.
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Physical description
298 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
0891077669 / 9780891077664
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