CBIO-101 Naturalism To Theism

Aristotle

384-322 BC

Hellenistic Period

323-50 BC

Destruction of Israeli Temple

70 AD

Roman Empire

Between Greeks and Mohammed

Emperor Constantine

306-337 AD

Constantinople

330-1453 AD

Nestorians

After Constantine, Before Mohammed

Thomas Aquinas

1225-1274 AD

Greek Thinking expands from Arabic into European World

1000-1200 AD

Scholasticism

1200-1500 AD

Middle Age Church

1250-1550 AD

Galileo

1563-1642 AD

Sir Isaac Newton

1642-1727 AD

Carolus Linnaeus

1707-1778 AD

Charles Darwin

1809-1882 AD

Origin of Species

1859 AD

Order of Scientists

Aristotle, Aquinas, Galileo, Newton, Linnaeus, Darwin

Greek Thinking

Polytheism, rules of the universe, logic to explain the rules

Greek Premise

Earth is logical, rule-governed, and perfect

Aristotle’s Paradigm

Universe can be explained naturally, “man was at his best when using his rational mind”

Areas Romans Conquered

Egypt, Turkey, Palestine, Greece, Israel

Constantine

Forced Rome to become Christian with him

Nestorians

Flee Roman Empire as Heretics and move to Persia

Why were the Nestorians called heretics?

They didn’t believe in the divinity of god

Mohammed and the Middle East

Conquers and unites the Arab world - Islam is begun

Battle of Tours

Charles “The Hammer” Martel drives Muslims to Northern Spain, exchange of Greek and European ideas

1000-1200

Scholars travel from Arabic world to European, take Aristotle and other Greek and Roman writings

Scholasticism

scripture + greek writings (truths of nature and revealed truth)

Middle Age takes in Aristotelian teachings

Thanks to Aquinas

The Hammer

The epistemology of science is influenced by its own worldview, when deciding what is true about the natural world

Newton

Codified Galileo’s findings into the laws of motion

Linnaeus

Swedish botanist, designed the taxonomic classification system we use today

Darwin

Published Origin of Species, natural selection, naturalistic way of explaining how life got here logically