follow that the inductive or experimental method should be universally applied.52 Taking a method that is sufficient for the practical use of humankind’s natural environment and extending it to biblical doctrines is equally disastrous. Doctrines are not based in the data or phenomena of Scripture; they are based in the teaching of Scripture and understood in the light of the phenomena of Scripture. Second, Bacon (and Hobbes as well) radically disjoins the realms of religion and reason, the spheres
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