Notes to Accompany "A History of Science and Christianity" The ancient world: Chaos vs Cosmos 1. Thales (585 BC) Predicted a Solar Eclipse: Nature is predictable. Cosmos and the human mind. Melvin Calvin (atheist expert on the chemical origin of life): ?The fundamental conviction that the universe is ordered [cosmos] is the first and strongest tenet [of scientists]. As I try to discern the origin of that conviction, I seem to find it in a basic notion discovered 2000 or 3000 years ago, and enunciated first in the Western world by the ancient Hebrews: namely that the universe is governed by a single God, and is not the product of the whims of many gods, each governing his own province, according to his own laws. This monotheistic view seems to be the historical foundation of modern science.?...

1. Science and Christian
Apologetics
JOHN OAKES, PhD

2. Chaos vs Cosmos
God vs the “gods”

3. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274 )

4. Roger Bacon

5. William of Ockham

6. Nikolai Copernicus

7. Galileo Galilei
“The Bible was
written to tell us
how to go to
heaven, not how
the heavens go”

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Photo Researchers

9. Sir Isaac
Newton

10. Statue of Joseph Priestley
Founder of the Unitarian Church

11. Voltaire
Creater of
Modern
Religious
Skepticism

12. David Hume
Says the skeptic:
“Extraordinary
claims require
extraordinary
proof.”

13. LaPlace
About God:
“I have no
need of that
hypothesis”

14. Hutton Lyell
How Old is the Earth?

15. Charles Darwin
“It is mere rubbish
to think at this
point of the origin
of life. One might
as well think of the
origin of matter.”

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All rights reserved. (C) Hulton/Archive
“Science
without religion
is lame.
Religion
without science
is blind.”
A. Einstein

17. Creationism:
Bad Science!

20. table 1
Gene sequence
that
codes for protein
Random DNA
segment
between genes
Chimpanzee 100% 98%
Dog 99% 52%
Mouse 99% 40%
Chicken 75% 4%
Fruitfly 60% ~0%
Roundworm 35% ~0%