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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. This rejection of faith and revelation and the paradigm shift towards the modern evidence based secular science involving methodological naturalism correlated with a rapid acceleration in scientific discovery that is responsible for the shift from alchemy to chemistry and from astrology to astronomy and developed our comparatively vast knowledge base about that natural word.<ref>Butterfield, Herbert. The Origins of Modern Science, 1300–1800, p. viii</ref>

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