'''Modern science''' developed in the [[Christian West]] on the basis of the [[Medieval Christian]] conception of [[God]] as a [[rational]] creator, and author of the [[universe]], whose rules would accordingly also be rational and predictable, and which we human beings, as rationas [[creatures]], would be able to discover by use of our God-given intellectual abilities. | '''Modern science''' developed in the [[Christian West]] on the basis of the [[Medieval Christian]] conception of [[God]] as a [[rational]] creator, and author of the [[universe]], whose rules would accordingly also be rational and predictable, and which we human beings, as rationas [[creatures]], would be able to discover by use of our God-given intellectual abilities. |