The world is unable to provide any account of its own actuality, and yet there it is all the same. David Bentley Hart More Quotes by David Bentley Hart More Quotes From David Bentley Hart Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat. David Bentley Hart revolution christian believe The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim. David Bentley Hart atheism fashion littles Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy. David Bentley Hart therapy atheism philosophy Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. David Bentley Hart latter method philosophy
