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|author=Christine Dao
|author=Christine Dao
|publisher=Institute for Creation Research
|publisher=Institute for Creation Research
|url=http://www.icr.org/article/3751/313/
|url=https://www.icr.org/article/3751/313/
|access date=02.02.2014
|access date=02.02.2014
}}</ref>|group=note}}, [[Isaac Newton]]{{#tag:ref|cf."This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being....This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God "''pantokrator''," or Universal Ruler...Since every particle of space is always, and every indivisible moment of duration is every where, certainly the Maker and Lord of all things cannot be never and no where....God is the same God, always and every where. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance.…It is allowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily; and by the same necessity he exists always and every where....And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearance of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy." ''Newton, I.: General Scholium. Translated by Motte, A. 1825. Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy''<ref>{{cite web
}}</ref>|group=note}}, [[Isaac Newton]]{{#tag:ref|cf."This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being....This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all; and on account of his dominion he is wont to be called Lord God "''pantokrator''," or Universal Ruler...Since every particle of space is always, and every indivisible moment of duration is every where, certainly the Maker and Lord of all things cannot be never and no where....God is the same God, always and every where. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance.…It is allowed by all that the Supreme God exists necessarily; and by the same necessity he exists always and every where....And thus much concerning God; to discourse of whom from the appearance of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy." ''Newton, I.: General Scholium. Translated by Motte, A. 1825. Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy''<ref>{{cite web
|author=Christine Dao
|author=Christine Dao
|publisher=Institute for Creation Research
|publisher=Institute for Creation Research
|url=http://www.icr.org/article/newton/
|url=https://www.icr.org/article/newton/
|access date=22.04.2012
|access date=22.04.2012
}}</ref>|group=note}}, and [[Lord Kelvin|William Kelvin]] distinguished between primary and [[Natural causes|secondary (''natural'') causes]].{{#tag:ref|Adherents of [[methodological naturalism]] such as E.J.Larson often mistakenly portray these scientists from their position as "freely mix[ing] matters of supernatural and natural causation" without recognizing the real difference they made between primary and secondary (natural) causes.<ref>{{cite book
}}</ref>|group=note}}, and [[Lord Kelvin|William Kelvin]] distinguished between primary and [[Natural causes|secondary (''natural'') causes]].{{#tag:ref|Adherents of [[methodological naturalism]] such as E.J.Larson often mistakenly portray these scientists from their position as "freely mix[ing] matters of supernatural and natural causation" without recognizing the real difference they made between primary and secondary (natural) causes.<ref>{{cite book
|pages=350
|pages=350
|isbn=0-8129-6849-2
|isbn=0-8129-6849-2
|url=http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Remarkable-History-Scientific-Chronicles/dp/0679642889
|url=https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Remarkable-History-Scientific-Chronicles/dp/0679642889
|quote=Indeed, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, William Gilbert, John Ray, and many other prior scientific luminaries freely mixed matters of supernatural and natural causation.}}</ref> Adam Sedgwick's review of the [[The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection|''Origin'']] published in the Spectator on 24 March 1860 criticised [[Darwin]]'s theory for unflinching materialism and for utterly repudiating final causes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles [24 Mar – 3 Apr 1860]|publisher=the University of Cambridge Darwin Correspondence Project |accessdate=17-Mar-2013|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2734#back-mark-2734.f5|quote=C.Darwin referes to a passage in Sedgwick's review ([Sedgwick] 1860, p. 286): But I cannot conclude without expressing my detestation of the theory, because of its unflinching materialism; … because it utterly repudiates final causes, and thereby indicates a demoralised understanding on the part of its advocates.}}</ref>|group=note}} A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''[[First Cause|first cause]]'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book
|quote=Indeed, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, William Gilbert, John Ray, and many other prior scientific luminaries freely mixed matters of supernatural and natural causation.}}</ref> Adam Sedgwick's review of the [[The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection|''Origin'']] published in the Spectator on 24 March 1860 criticised [[Darwin]]'s theory for unflinching materialism and for utterly repudiating final causes.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles [24 Mar – 3 Apr 1860]|publisher=the University of Cambridge Darwin Correspondence Project |accessdate=17-Mar-2013|url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2734#back-mark-2734.f5|quote=C.Darwin referes to a passage in Sedgwick's review ([Sedgwick] 1860, p. 286): But I cannot conclude without expressing my detestation of the theory, because of its unflinching materialism; … because it utterly repudiates final causes, and thereby indicates a demoralised understanding on the part of its advocates.}}</ref>|group=note}} A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''[[First Cause|first cause]]'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book
| author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks
| author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks
|publisher= JOURNAL OF CREATION 23(3) creation.com
|publisher= JOURNAL OF CREATION 23(3) creation.com
|date = 2009
|date = 2009
|url= http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j23_3/j23_3_103-109.pdf
|url= https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j23_3/j23_3_103-109.pdf
|access date=27.09.2012
|access date=27.09.2012
}}</ref> or in 'An interview with creationist physicist/cosmologist John Hartnett'.<ref>{{cite web
}}</ref> or in 'An interview with creationist physicist/cosmologist John Hartnett'.<ref>{{cite web
|publisher= Creation 25(4):37–39
|publisher= Creation 25(4):37–39
|date = September 2003
|date = September 2003
|url= http://creation.com/exploding-the-big-bang
|url= https://creation.com/exploding-the-big-bang
|access date=27.09.2012
|access date=27.09.2012
}}</ref>|group=note}} are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."<ref name="WhomadeGod"/> The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] object to God as a final explanation for ''ultimate cause'', yet they themselves have no explanation for the existence of the mass/energy of which the universe is formed and thus must regard it essentially as a ''brute fact''. Due to the [[law of causality]], [[explanation in science]], if it is to avoid [[infinite regress]], always leads to certain things that are regarded as ''ultimate''.<ref name="LENNOX"/> American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist Robert Jastrow closes his book ''God and the Astronomers'' with these words: "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the ''power of reason'', the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."<ref name="Jastrow">{{cite book
}}</ref>|group=note}} are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."<ref name="WhomadeGod"/> The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] object to God as a final explanation for ''ultimate cause'', yet they themselves have no explanation for the existence of the mass/energy of which the universe is formed and thus must regard it essentially as a ''brute fact''. Due to the [[law of causality]], [[explanation in science]], if it is to avoid [[infinite regress]], always leads to certain things that are regarded as ''ultimate''.<ref name="LENNOX"/> American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist Robert Jastrow closes his book ''God and the Astronomers'' with these words: "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the ''power of reason'', the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."<ref name="Jastrow">{{cite book
== External links ==
== External links ==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pP8ENlWfRk&feature=related ''The Case for a Creator'']: [[Lee Strobel]] & [[William Lane Craig]] on the [[Big Bang]] and the [[Cosmological argument#Cosmological arguments|Kalam Cosmological Argument]]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pP8ENlWfRk&feature=related ''The Case for a Creator'']: [[Lee Strobel]] & [[William Lane Craig]] on the [[Big Bang]] and the [[Cosmological argument#Cosmological arguments|Kalam Cosmological Argument]]
*[http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j18_2/j18_2_13-14.pdf Daniel Schmidt: [[String theory]] and the origin of the universe—new idea, old problem]
*[https://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j18_2/j18_2_13-14.pdf Daniel Schmidt: [[String theory]] and the origin of the universe—new idea, old problem]
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