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Up until the time of Newton, scientists regarded the understandings of the physical world, at which they were arriving, as glimpses of the working of the Creator's mind. Thus, the generalisations being formulated about the behaviour of matter - the "Laws of Nature" - were seen as the Creator's injunctions, to created matter, as to how it was to act. They were "laws" in the same sense as laws, Divine or human, about how people should behave: that is why the same word was used for both. And even now, scientific laws are occasionally spoken of as being "obeyed"!However, it is doubtful whether any

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Comment la croyance peut-elle aller à l'encontre de ce que l'on sait ? Derrière cette question, volontairement provocante, Pascal Picq interroge les origines de l'Univers, de la Vie, et de l'Homme sur la Terre. S'appuyant sur la longue histoire des sciences, il montre en creux la résistance de nos esprits modernes à comprendre le monde hors des sentiers sacrés. Les questions sur les commencements, nous dit-il, importent autant que leurs réponses, variées et riches. Car la curiosité humaine ne se tarit jamais. Au cours des derniers siècles, Charles Darwin puis Albert Einstein ont repoussé les limites du monde. Visionnaires conscients - et inquiets aussi - de briser des tabous, ils ont ouvert des voies essentielles à la recherche moderne. On sait depuis que rien n'est éternel, que tout évolue : l'Univers, la Vie et l'Homme.

Cosmogony --- Creationism --- Religion and science --- Anthropic principle

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Religion and science --- Catholic Church --- Doctrines.

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Ethnology --- Religion and science --- Faith and reason --- Religious aspects