Question #4

Term Paper Title	Question #4
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Question #4

11/20/02

period 1

With the work of Newton, the natural universe became a realm of law and regularity. Beliefs in spirits and divinities were no longer necessary to explain its operation. Thus, the Scientific Revolution liberated human beings from the fear of a chaotic or haphazard universe. Most of the scientists were very devout people. They saw in the new picture of physical nature a new picture also of God. The Creator of this rational, lawful nature must also be rational. To study nature was to come to a better understanding of that Creator. Science and religious faith were not only compatible but mutually supporting. As Newton wrote, �The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypothesis, and to deduce Cause from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical. This reconciliation of faith and science allowed the new physics and astronomy to spread rapidly. At the very time when Europeans were finally tiring of the wars or religion, the new...

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