Christianity and Science (AQA A-Level Religious Studies): Flashcards

16th-18th centuries

Knowledge starts from sense experience

Knowledge starts with processes of human thought

Deriving conclusions from an initial proposition

Method based on observation and testing

View that only science can give true knowledge of reality

Belief in intelligent but impersonal creator

Humans create own reality through choices they make

Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton

Systematic doubt to establish certain knowledge