C4.1 science

• Copernicus, Galileo: Sun at centre of universe, not earth

  >> Church: contradicts Bible + questions Church’s authority

  - Censured writing challenging trad Bible interpretation in Prot Ref
• Swinburne: patterns in universe point to God’s existence
• Polkinghorne, Tennant: fine-tuning + anthropic principle evidence of design
• give a criticism of this view:

  Swinburne: patterns in universe point to God’s existence

  Dawkins: meaningless to ask why patterns exist: evolut - no purpose/creator
• William James: RE still valid even though can’t be proven empirically
• Polkinghorne: relig knowledge complementary to empirical scientific knowledge – diff insights
• Polkinghorne: science also relies on leaps of faith - arg that universe brute fact + arg that God is creator both assumed
• give a criticism of this arg:

  Polkinghorne: science also relies on leaps of faith - arg that universe brute fact + arg that God is creator both assumed

  Ockham's razor
• Robert Boyle, John Ray: scientific work brings closer to God
• Newton: relig in harmony with reason - can critically examine Christianity
• synoptic strength of scientific arg against relig (philosophy)

  Ayer, Flew: relig lang unverifiable/unfalsifiable => meaningless