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Marsch Final SSFTJocelyn Bell Burnell - answer discovered pulsar nebula
John Polkinghorne - answer The End of the World and the Ends of God: Science and
Theology of Eschatology
-Natural laws show a dying world. Yet the Bible promises a renewal & glorification of
creation. Thus your response to this reveals your world view, as either a problem or a
confirmation.
Stephen Jay Gould - answer Biologist who criticized sociobiology, offering instead
explanations based on culture rather than on genetics and evolution
Andrew Dickson White and John William Draper - answer white- history of the warfare
of science with theology in Christendom
draper- a history of the conflict between religion and science
Auguste Comte - answer Warfare model pioneer, theological/positive/metaphysical
phases, theological phase was fetishism/polytheism/monotheism
Francis Bacon and Galileo- Two Books Model - answer Two books: scripture and
creation. Doesn't work for Christianity
Anselm and Augustine (the latter several places- see origins material) -
answerharmonization model- faith seeking understanding
William Paley, Sam Butler, Jon Witherspoon- natural theology errors - answer
Kepler and Newton- design, dating earth - answerNewton laws of motion, Kepler
planetary motion
Fang Lizhi - answer
Louis Berkhof - answerReformed theologian best known for his Systematic Theology
(1932). In his work on systematic theology he followed in the line of John Calvin and
embraced the development of Reformed theology by the Dutch theologians Abraham
Kuyper and Herman Bavinck
Cal DeWitt - answer
Heraclitus and Parmenides - answerHeraclitus: change always happens (river analogy);
Parmenides: All is one, change an impossibility, and an illusion
, Thales - answerpredicted eclipse of sun, moon shines by reflected sunlight, universe
made of water
Pythagoras - answerintellectual descendant of Thales- more mystical than the other
Ionians, earth was spherical, acoustics, Pythagorean theorem, religious thought,
numerology, still influential
Aristotle and Plato - answerNeither liked excessively materialist philosophies
-the demiurge
-the transcendent form
-Plato is more top-down, Aristotle is more bottom-up
Archimedes - answergreatest mathematical physicist of ancient world
-buoyancy and density
-statics and the lever
-center of gravity
-pi estimated between ...
Chief engineer for King Heiron
Erastosthenes - answerThis ancient scholar calculated the circumference of the earth,
described it as a sphere, and predicted that ships could sail from Greece to India.
Pliny the Elder - answerwrote Natural History
died during vesuvius
Claudius Ptolemy - answerastronomer and geographer
- extended hipparchos
-star catalogs and constellations
-geocentric model
Alhazen - answerOptics
Skepticism, empiricism, inductive reasoning, Occam's Razor
Averroes - answerCrude muslim astronomer, popularized Aristotle, and was banished
for being a heretic. Believed in the Concentric view of the universe, had ideas of inertia
& force, advanced physiology with sensory organ of the retina
Avicenna - answerBook of healing; pharmocology, phsyiology, infectious diseases.
Ulugh Beg - answerbuilt an observatory; measured obliquity of ecliptic-constellations of
the zodiac.
Al-Ghazali - answerbrilliant Islamic theologian; attempted to fuse Greek and Qur'anic
traditions
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