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SCIENCE AND RELIGION A HISTORY. JOHN OAKES, PhD. Chaos vs Cosmos God vs the “gods”. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274 ). Roger Bacon. William of Ockham. Nikolai Copernicus. Galileo Galilei. “The Bible was written to tell us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go”. Sir Isaac Newton.
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SCIENCEAND RELIGIONA HISTORY JOHN OAKES, PhD
Chaos vs Cosmos God vs the “gods”
Galileo Galilei “The Bible was written to tell us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go”
Statue of Joseph Priestley Founder of the Unitarian Church
Voltaire Creater of Modern Religious Skepticism
David Hume Says the skeptic: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”
LaPlace About God: “I have no need of that hypothesis”
How Old is the Earth? Hutton Lyell
“It is mere rubbish to think at this point of the origin of life. One might as well think of the origin of matter.” Charles Darwin
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” A. Einstein
Creationism: Bad Science!