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The Christian Character of Michael Faraday

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The Christian Character of Michael Faraday as Revealed in His Personal Life and Recorded Sermons
http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1991/PSCF6-91Eichman.html

>>During his lifetime, he was offered a knighthood in recognition for his services to science, which he turned down on religious grounds, believing it was against the word of the Bible to accumulate riches and pursue worldly reward, stating he preferred to remain “plain Mr Faraday to the end”.[18]<<
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday#Later_life

>>two of the most important physicists of the 19th century—Faraday and Maxwell—were extremely pious, and the formulator of the Big Bang theory was a priest! <<
http://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/the-myth-of-the-war-between-science-and-religion/331/

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>>Philosophy does not give us the certainty that math or experimental science can (but even then — as many philosophers would point out — these fields do not give us as much certainty as is sometimes claimed). But that doesn’t mean that philosophy is worthless, or that it doesn’t have rigor. Indeed, in a sense, philosophy is inescapable. To argue that philosophy is useless is to do philosophy. Moreover, some existential questions simply can’t be escaped, and philosophy is one of the best, or at least least bad, ways we’ve come up with to address those questions.<<
http://theweek.com/articles/610948/why-many-scientists-are-ignorant

‘The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science,’ by Armand Marie Leroi

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a book review 😉
in the official telling of modern science’s origins, Aristotle is hardly regarded as heroic. Instead he’s portrayed as the obstacle over which the early heroes of the scientific revolution — Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo — had to leap in order to impose a genuinely explanatory methodology over the often deceptive input of sense perception. 

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As I contemplate the elaborate tapestry of his [Aristotle's] science, and compare it to ours, I conclude that we can now see his intentions and accomplishment more clearly than any previous age has seen them and that, if this is so, it is because we have caught up with him.