The extrinsic image of God goes hand in hand with an extrinsic relation of science to theology and metaphysics. For example, Spitzer considers that “God is not an object or phenomenon or regularity within the physical universe; so science cannot say anything about God.”605 He is unable to realize that science always tacitly presupposes an image of God, since the world’s intrinsic relation to God is reflected in science’s intrinsic relation to theology and metaphysics, as previously discussed in the first chapter. An extrinsicist scholar, whether a theologian or a scientist, defends a science
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