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Until the end of the Middle Ages there was no distinction between [[theology]] and [[science]]. Knowledge was deduced from self-evident principles received from [[God]] so science and theology were essentially the same thing. After the Middle Ages the increasingly [[Atheism|atheistic]] rejection of God by scientists<ref>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0.html</ref> led to the creation of [[Materialism|materialist]] secular science where scientists will continue to search for a natural explanation for a phenomenon based on the expectation that they will find one, instead of settling on a supernatural explanation.

Until the end of the Middle Ages there was no distinction between [[theology]] and [[science]]. Knowledge was deduced from self-evident principles received from [[God]] so science and theology were essentially the same thing. After the Middle Ages the increasingly [[Atheism|atheistic]] rejection of God by scientists<ref>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v394/n6691/full/394313a0.html</ref> led to the creation of [[Materialism|materialist]] secular science where scientists will continue to search for a natural explanation for a phenomenon based on the expectation that they will find one, instead of settling on a supernatural explanation.

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