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Section focuses on Newton and how he argued that there must be an immaterial force to explain how Gravity could work, not a purely mechanical one. He even clarified this with his interactions with Liebniz. Something must have set everything on its course and keeps the universe orderly, and Newton along with other contemporaries used this to infer God, in contrast to many scientists today who try to explain away God.
— Jan 01, 2025 10:52PM
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It gets fairly technical with science and equations but mostly to demonstrate how naturalistic explanations can't explain how the universe came to be, and theories that try to either just push the can down the road a bit (such as panspermia), or are so speculative as to be unsupportive. He also gets a little into the philosophy behind it.
— Jul 11, 2025 05:10PM
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Talks about how the rival theories to the Big Bang fell apart and the last issue with the big bang was resolved, but then when scientists looked more into it, it leaned more and more in the direction of a creator of some sort. It wasn't definitive proof, but it made more sense than energy and matter creating themselves.
— Mar 08, 2025 04:35PM
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Talks about the origins of the Big Bang theory, starting with Einstein's theory of relativity ands how space and time are connected, and how that effects light and hoe speed and distance seem to the related. The Catholic scientist that proposed what would become the big bang, but Einstein originally dismissed, said was based on Christian creation view, but started seeing evidence for.
— Feb 22, 2025 06:36PM
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Goes into the theories and observations about light, in being able to tell how far away stars and galaxies are (ie Red shift) and if the universe was finite or infinite. Says Poe beat astronomers to the idea of a spatially finite universe. Hubble then plays a big part in the debate.
— Feb 22, 2025 06:34PM
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Scientific materialism, and he includes, Darwin, Freud and Marx in this as their theories were based on the assumption. The lead to the idea that science and faith were incompatible.
— Feb 22, 2025 06:31PM
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Kant particularly opposed the Kalam argument as he disputed the universe had a beginning. While Newton believed in God, he also believed the universe was infinite, and that stars kept equilibrium against each other, but secularists picked up on this. Design argument attacked by Hume as he said organisms differed from machines, they could reproduce. Paley defended design.
— Jan 04, 2025 11:08AM
Benjamin
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Scientists started rejecting the idea of God during the enlightenment. IN particular the author blames such Hume, Kant , and Comte. They may not have rejected Goe entirely, but accepted a more deistic God, but rejected God as a cause and continued interaction in the world. Talks about the Kalam argument originated from Muslims.
— Jan 04, 2025 10:56AM
Benjamin
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Talks about three views of nature. One is like a book which is how early Christians saw it. Another is like a clock, as proposed by Robrt Boyle, that God was the one to wind up the clock of nature. Third the one he gets most into is as laws. He said early civilizations didn't see it this way and treated nature as necessary axiom, until monotheistic view that a single law giver could explain, led to modern science
— Dec 28, 2024 11:58AM
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Says when scientists stated using Christianity, they realize that we could reason things but also that human reason was fallible. Talks about Ockham's Razor a little bit (parsimony) and how he was critical of using Aristotelian methods which relied on defining the nature of something by its effect.
— Dec 12, 2024 07:31PM
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Claimed that "Natural Philosophy" (what we today call science) only really took off when they got past the Greek ideas of first principles, and looked at things more systematically, and deduced there must be a creator.
— Dec 01, 2024 09:18PM
