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science. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (5015 words) |
 | Mathematics, while not a science, is closely allied to the sciences because of their extensive use of it. |
| The physical sciences include physics, chemistry, and astronomy; the earth sciences (sometimes considered a part of the physical sciences) include geology, paleontology, oceanography, and meteorology; and the life sciences include all the branches of biology such as botany, zoology, genetics, and medicine. |
| Science, in the modern sense of the term, came into being in the 16th and 17th cent., with the merging of the craft tradition with scientific theory and the evolution of the scientific method. |
| Theistic Evolution: The Fallacy of the Middle Ground (3869 words) |
| Science does not count any explanation that appeals to God or to supernatural phenomena as a scientific explanation (thus it is committed to methodological naturalism). |
| Such sciences as physics, chemistry, geology, physiology, and neurobiology, exactly like evolutionary biology, admit no supernatural causes for the actions of atoms, the sun's energy, the health or ills of the human body, or the powers of the human brain. |
| In the case of theistic evolution, the magisterium of religion is overlapping the magisterium of science. |
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