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PARADIGM SHIFTS
A paradigm is a world view that controls the way we understand the world in which we live. A paradigm shift occurs when the dominant paradigm is replaced by a new paradigm. Some examples of paradigm shifts are given below. One of the most significant paradigm shifts occurred in science when the paradigm that united all truth into one was replaced by a paradigm that separated the revealed truth of the Bible from scientific truth. Newton wrote that, "He was thinking God's thoughts after him.", because he saw scientific investigation as a branch of Biblical truth. This paradigm has been replaced by today's methodological naturalism. The problem with today's paradigm is that science has become the only means of determining truth. There is no way to evaluate the claims of modern science. However, we believe that there is a need to evaluate the conclusions of scientists by measuring them against absolute truth as revealed to us in God's word, the Bible.
Geocentrism to Heliocentrism
In 1610 Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter and observed the orbits of four of its moons. He believed that there was a force (which we now call gravity) that keeps the moons of Jupiter in their orbits and the same force could keep the Earth's moon going around it as the Earth moved around the Sun. His observations convinced him that the Earth orbits the Sun along with the other planets. Thus Galileo refuted those who believed that the Sun and all the planets orbited the Earth. On the basis of his scientific observations Galileo became a heliocentrist.
However the consequences of this paradigm shift were even went far beyond astronomy; not so much because of the change that occurred but why it occurred and who opposed it.
The Church opposed this scientific change not because it had a biblical position but because it defended an Aristotelian system of science that stated that the Earth was the centre of the universe. Galileo and others believed that science
A paradigm is a world view that controls the way we understand the world in which we live. A paradigm shift occurs when the dominant paradigm is replaced by a new paradigm. Some examples of paradigm shifts are given below. One of the most significant paradigm shifts occurred in science when the paradigm that united all truth into one was replaced by a paradigm that separated the revealed truth of the Bible from scientific truth. Newton wrote that, "He was thinking God's thoughts after him.", because he saw scientific investigation as a branch of Biblical truth. This paradigm has been replaced by today's methodological naturalism. The problem with today's paradigm is that science has become the only means of determining truth. There is no way to evaluate the claims of modern science. However, we believe that there is a need to evaluate the conclusions of scientists by measuring them against absolute truth as revealed to us in God's word, the Bible.
Geocentrism to Heliocentrism
In 1610 Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter and observed the orbits of four of its moons. He believed that there was a force (which we now call gravity) that keeps the moons of Jupiter in their orbits and the same force could keep the Earth's moon going around it as the Earth moved around the Sun. His observations convinced him that the Earth orbits the Sun along with the other planets. Thus Galileo refuted those who believed that the Sun and all the planets orbited the Earth. On the basis of his scientific observations Galileo became a heliocentrist.
However the consequences of this paradigm shift were even went far beyond astronomy; not so much because of the change that occurred but why it occurred and who opposed it.
The Church opposed this scientific change not because it had a biblical position but because it defended an Aristotelian system of science that stated that the Earth was the centre of the universe. Galileo and others believed that science