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God VS Science?

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English: Freeman Dyson (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Major revolutions in science are somewhat rare and frequently ignored by the nonscientist. A new book titled The New Story of Science hopes to make the most recent revolution more understandable. The book is the culmination of five years of collaborative effort by theoretical physicist George Stanciu and philosopher Robert Augros. They believe they hear the creak of masts and timbers as the ship of science alters the course plotted for it in earlier centuries. Every civilization has a cosmic worldview, or story. The scientific story that was gradually built up by research in physics and biology during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries was progressively materialistic. But now, argue these authors, science is shifting from this old story to a new story due to the startling discoveries of Einstein, Heisenberg, Sherrington, Eccles, and Penfield. In the early phases of modern science, theism was still dominant. Newto