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Laws of nature, laws of God? : proceedings of the Science and Religion Forum Conference, 2014 / edited by Neil Spurway.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Conversations in Science and Religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science--Congresses.
- Religion and science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- Up until the time of Newton, scientists regarded the understandings of the physical world, at which they were arriving, as glimpses of the working of the Creator's mind. Thus, the generalisations being formulated about the behaviour of matter - the "Laws of Nature" - were seen as the Creator's injunctions, to created matter, as to how it was to act. They were "laws" in the same sense as laws, Divine or human, about how people should behave: that is why the same word was used for both. And even now, scientific laws are occasionally spoken of as being "obeyed"!However, it is doubtful whether any
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8303-4
- OCLC:
- 954254703
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