Hello Gentlemen,

I think Puritan Lad gave a good answer.

It is not so much that Christian Natural Philosophers, like Newton, so much made explicit God's actions in their theories, but rather they assumed that nature was governed by God such that it makes sense to look for uniformity in nature. In other words, Newton's worldview was such that it made sense to think that there existed laws like F=ma. Because God governers the universe, and God is a God of order, then there would be such laws that would characterize how things in the universe relate to each other.

The sad thing about this is that many scientists forgot the foundation for this type of inductive reasoning. They started with this foundation, and then at some point decided they no longer needed it - but rather kept what was already built from this foundation. This is what I like about presuppositionalism. It does not allow atheists to have the structure without the foundation. It points out that the structure they want to operate under is not supported with their presuppositions.

Brian

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Brian Bosse
Faith Community Church
Tucson, Arizona
Scientiam Dei