Science must be taken seriously, first, on account of our doctrine of creation. This means that, for the Christian, inquiry starts not from “science,” but from the Christian tradition in its understanding of nature in its creatureliness. Of course, until the modern era, there was no need for navigating science-theology relations, since science, philosophy and religion composed the same vocation, proceeded from the same intellectual impulses and focused on the same subject matter. On account of the
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