(February 16, 2014 at 8:48 am)Tonus Wrote: One wonders how the Jews managed to survive without a method for testing claims and experimenting in order to refine certain processes and methods. Oh, right: god made it rain food, campfires, clothes, and wheels.
They rejected the kinds of gods science would eventually disprove beyond a doubt in favour of a God that is scientifically unfalsifiable and this was 3000 years before the invention of modern science. What they did have an understanding of universe as a self sustained natural order, even if their scientific details of this order were way off. The Biblical God still fits into the picture of a complex naturally ordered rationally understandable universe that science can study. There is no Zeus or Thor up there in the sky if there had been we would be able to see them with telescopes.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
