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SSFT Marsch final - peopleJocelyn Bell Burnell - answer discovery of Pulsars, role of curiosity
John Polkinghorne - answer Prominent leading voice in the explanation of the
relationship between science and religion. Wrote Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of
Science and Religion.
Natural laws show a dying world, but the Bible promises renewal and glorification of
creation.
Stephen Jay Gould – answer NOMA model
NOMA - answer on-Overlapping Magisteria
White and Draper - answer Warfare (conflict) Model
Auguste Comte - answerWarfare model.
Historical positivism (scientific reasoning is highest society can get)
3 phases (theological, metaphysical, positive [science])
Theological phase - answerphase one under warfare model - fetishism, polytheism,
monotheism
Francis Bacon and Galileo - answerTwo books model.
Book of Nature and Book of Law.
Two Books Model - answerGeneral and special revelation
Anselm and Augustine - answerHarmonization model. Reason can be coupled with
scripture, we are dependent but true knowers.
William Paley - answerNatural theology errors. General revelations in a fallen world.
Johannes Kepler - answerCreated the laws of planetary motion (confirmed copernican
theory) Dated earth at 3993 BC
Isaac Newton - answerDefined the laws of motion and gravity. Tried to explain motion of
the universe. Seen as Mechanist, but more Platonist. Dated earth at 3998 BC. Anglican.
Fang Lizhi - answerUniverse is the work of a single creator. Chinese cosmologist,
dissident, and atheist
, Louis Berkhof - answerReformed theologian best known for his Systematic Theology
(1932). Communicable and incommunicable traits. Humanity reflects aspects of God.
Trinity, spiritual, immortal, righteous/holy, will, spirit + body, dominion
Calvin DeWitt - answer4 Creation mandates. Earth-keeping, sabbath, fruitfulness,
fulfillment/limits principles.
Creation Mandates - answer1. Earth-keeping principle
2. Sabbath principle
3. Fruitfulness principle
4. Fulfillment and limits principle
Heraclitus and Parmenides - answerHeraclitus: change always happens - river analogy.
Parmenides: change is an illusion/impossible. the infinite number of steps needed to get
somewhere paradox.
Dichotomy Paradox - answerThere are an infinite number of steps needed to get
somewhere, so motion is impossible. Halfway, halfway, halfway, etc.
Thales - answerFather of philosophy. Thought Universe was made of water.
Pythagoras - answerGreek philosopher and mathematician who proved the
Pythagorean theorem. studied acoustics. mathematical mysticism.
Plato - answerShadowy realities point to transcendent Forms which point to
Transcendent realities, beloved of many mathematicians
Aristotle - answerA Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, studied with Plato.
Better for biology + meds. Causes and Forms. Starts with senses, empirical/inductive
Aristotle's causes - answermaterial (underlying the form), formal (form received by the
thing), efficient (agency bringing about change), final (purpose served by change.
teleology, function)
Archimedes - answer(287-212 BCE) Greek mathematician and inventor. He wrote
works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. He is best known for the
lever and pulley.
Erastosthenes - answerCalculated the circumference of the earth, described it as a
sphere
Pliny the Elder - answerwrote Natural History
Ptolemy - answerAlexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of
astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD)
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