The Creator-Creation Distinction

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

Thank you @TedDavis. @jongarvey, relevant to this conversation…

@jongarvey

He was a deviation from the norm, but it was the correct deviation.

And this seems to imply that Bacon was the appointed apostle of the gospel of science, whose word defined all that science was to be thereafter. Crucial

@TedDavis

there is much historical evidence that Christians helped advance the notion that natural philosophy needed to restrict its inquiries to “natural” (i.e., non-supernatural) causes.

@TedDavis

The standard rule at medieval universities, namely, that natural philosophers should keep out of theology, reflects its earlier origins. For example, Galileo (who had taught at Pisa and Padua for many years) alluded to this in a letter he wrote to Fr Pietro Dini (later archbishop of Fermo) in May 1615. “Yet for all of me any discussion of the sacred Scripture might have lain dormant forever; no astronomer or scientist who remained within proper bounds has ever got into such things .” (quoted by Stillman Drake, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo , 165)

@TedDavis

A full history of MN has not yet been written, but a wide-reaching historical project is well underway: https://hps.fsu.edu/news-and-events/ron-numbers-conference

@jongarvey I’d just suggest there is a lot here to exhume to make sense of this. It is an unfinished historical project here.