Ken Dillers (he teaches a course at UT called Science and the Bible) visit to BfA today reminded me of this article I read a week ago: thenewatlantis/publications/the-genius-and-faith-of-faraday-and-maxwell The strict separation we commonly observe between a researcher’s scientific ideas and his or her “personal beliefs” is a modern, and even recent, norm. From antiquity through the Scientific Revolution, science was viewed as a form of philosophy, and many of the thinkers we have retroactively dubbed “scientists” freely intermingled their speculation about the natural world with theological, philosophical, and mathematical writings, often expending a great deal of their scholarly time and energy on religious study. Kepler’s seventeenth-century laws of planetary motion, for example, seem to his modern readers like needles of scientific inspiration buried in a haystack of theological speculation. Newton and Boyle likewise intermingled physics and philosophical theology without apparent hesitation.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 00:59:10 +0000
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