Subj : The universe
To   : Bob Eyer
From : Frank Masingill
Date : Thu Jan 04 2001 01:13 pm

 BE> BE: -I cannot think of any scientific claim which shows
 BE> science -reconciling itself with religion.

 BE> > I believe Newton held science back quite a bit and for quite
 BE> > a long time by attempting to do PRECISELY that.

 BE> Elaboration?

        I can only refer you to Whitehead's _Science in the Modern
World_ and even more specifically, Voegelin's "The Origins of
Scientism" (Social Research 15 (1948), republished in Collected
Works 10, pp168ff)  The religious treatment of his findings, leading
to phenomenalism (rooting of ALL of the sciences in mathematics and
materialism) held sway until Einstein and others.  In the 20th
century science in general has been pretty much set free from the
fall into the Enlightenment and even at the time of Newton there
were his challengers.

Frank

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 * Origin: Maybe in 5000 years (1:396/17.2)

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