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Dudt SSFT Mid-TermJohannes Kepler - answer(1571-1630)
- Evangelical Lutherian
Found mathematical laws
Issac Newton - answer(1643-1727)
- f=ma
- Momentum laws and gravity
- Thinking God's thought after
Karl Linnaeus - answer(1707)
- Biologist
- Not easy to get an equation
- Quantified- what is the likelyhood of this outcome
- Class systems
Asa Grey - answer(1810-1888)
- Communicator with Darwin
- Self proclaimer adherent to the Nicene Creed
- Embraced Darwinism theory
- Appeals to Darwin to add design
Francis Collins - answer(21st century)
- Theistic Darwinistic Christian
- Human Genome Project
Warner Von Bran - answer- Head of NASA
- German scientists
David Hume - answer-Opposed Cosmological Argument for God because though a
divine being maay have started the Big Banng, it wasn't the Christian God
John Polkinghorn - answer(1930-) on nature
- World could have been Chaotic and Unknowable
Rational/Ordered but Inscrutable or what we have today *** ordered/rational AND
understandable to the human mind
Paul Dirac - answer(1902-1984) on math
- structure of pure math reveals deep congruence between rationality of human mind
and orderliness of the universe
, Pre-socratics - answer- Looked for underlying physical causes for physical events
- Basically Materialists
- Thales, Anaximenes, Empedocles, Leucippus. Democritus
Thales - answer(624-546)
- 1st of the 7 wisest Greeks
- Held that water was the fundamental substance
- Predicted the eclipse of the sun
- Moon shines by reflected sunlight
Anaximander - answer(610-546)
- Universe is a formless mass- "aperiron" or infinite
- The sundial
- Celestial sphere
Democritus and Leucippus - answer(450-370)
- Geometry (volume of a cone vs. a Cylinder
- Astronomy- milkyway made of stars
Pythagoras - answer(582-497)
- Numbers underline all reality
- Fundamental rational principle that explains the order of things
- Developed a kind of religion of number
Plato - answer(427-347)
- Student of Socrates
- Influenced by Pythagorian views of reality
- Problem of order and change
- Imperfect representations of their ideal nature (change is explained as movement
away from or toward this ideal.
- Teleological conception of reality
*each thing has a proper function determined by ideal nature
*functions fit together to form the ordered kosmos
*Organism metaphor
- Those who focus on the natural world alone are unable to really understand what they
see, even if it seems like they understand it perfectly
Aristotle - answer(384-322)
- Student of Plato
- Most powerful thinker of the ancient world
- Great concern with chage and explanation through form within a thing
- On Change: All change is a reduction from potentiality to actuality
- Froms: explains what a thing is and its function- by its structure
- Biology: observationally grounded (explains purpose through form)
Motion: required explanation (natural motion and forced motion)
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