Journey to The Matrix of Materialism The early modern scientists believed in the concept of the uniformity of natural causes in an open system. God and man were outside the cause-and-effect machine of the cosmos, and therefore they both could influence the machine. To them all that exists is not one big cosmic machine which includes everything. The shift from modern science to what I call modern modern science was a shift from the concept of the uniformity of natural causes in an open system to the concept of the uniformity of natural causes in a closed system. In the latter view nothing is outside a total cosmic machine; everything which exists is a part of it. . . .When people begin to think this way, there is no place for God or for man as man. When physchology and social science were made part of a closed cause-and-effect system, along with physics, astronomy and chemistry, it was not only God who died. Man died. And within this framework love died. There is no place for love in a totally closed cause-and-effect system. There is no place for morals in a totally closed cause-and effect system. There is no place for freedom of people in a totally closed cause-and-effect system. Man becomes a zero. People and all they do become only part of the machinery. In the humanism of the High Renaissance, flowing on to maturity through the Enlightenment, man was determined to make himself autonomous. This flow continues, and by the time we come to modern modern science man himself is devoured: Man as man is dead. Life is pointless, devoid of meaning. -- How Should We Then Live? Francis A, Schaeffer, 146-148.
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