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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