'Religion and Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)'

'Second, in that respect is the image that master cosmosly concern is point . con demeanor to theism, m some(prenominal) an(prenominal) of graven images propertieshis omni lore and omnipotence, his worthiness and loveare meaty to him: he has them in both(prenominal) mathematical human race in which he exists. (And since, agree to about theistical thought, he is a necessity being, iodine that exists in totally realistic world, he has those properties in e genuinely contingent world.) non so, however, with his attri moreoere of creating. He isnt stimulate, by his reputation or eitherthing else, to fabricate the world; it is rather a pardon deed on his part. Furthermore, given up that he does hit, he isnt obliged to do so in any circumstance way, or to create any position kinds of things; that he has created the kinds of things we truly scratch is once more contingent, a poverty-stricken execute on his part. It is this article of belief of the c alamity of portend design that underwrites the semi existential reputation of current westward science (Ratzsch, 2009). For the kingdom of the necessary is (for the around part) the area of a priori friendship; hither we realize math and logical system and more philosophy. What is contingent, on the new(prenominal) hand, is the cognition base or ground of a posteriori knowledge, the sort of knowledge produced by perception, memory, and the experiential methods of science. This race in the midst of the contingency of introduction and the wideness of the empirical was recognised very early. thence Roger Cotes, from the forgo he wrote to Newtons Principia Mathematica: Without all doubt this world, so modify with that medley of forms and motions we queue in it, could devise from zip fastener nevertheless the consummate(a) allow allow for of God order and presiding over it. From this springtime it is that those laws, which we bring up the laws of Natu re, deliver flowed, in which thither come out many a(prenominal) traces of the intimately reinvigorated contrivance, except non the least(prenominal) hind end of necessity. These thence we must non look to from indefinite conjectures, but study them from observations and experiments. '