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The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book surveys the development of science so that Christians may gain an understanding of its historical progression in light of their faith. It looks at science in its formative stages when Christianity was the backdrop to virtually all scientific discussion and then explores the key controversies that over the years have changed the face of science, including past revolutions in math and...

expression, in terms of natural science, of the Christian belief that nature is the creation of an omnipotent God.”32 The Spitting Image Belief in a rational order in nature would have no practical benefit for science were it not accompanied by the belief that humans can discover that order. Historically, Eiseley says, science stemmed from “the sheer act of faith that the universe possessed order and could be interpreted by rational minds.”33 The latter is just as important as the former. It
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