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THE WORLD MAKERS - WILLIAM POOLE GEBUNDEN

When educated men in the seventeenth century thought about the Earth on which they stood  they
might ask themselves the following questions. When was the world created? Why? How? Out of
what? Where did people come from? Do we all share the same origin? How were other living things
generated? Can species vary at all? What are fossils? The common answers to these questions
were rooted in the Bible. The world was made around the year 4000 BC by the direct command of
God  people all come from Adam and Eve  species do not vary and fossils are inorganic in
origin. Most people assumed that the teachings of theology and of natural philosophy (what we
would later term 'science') were both continuous and harmonious. But there were radical new
answers to these questions of origin too.This is the story of how the emerging discipline of
experimental philosophy reacted to the opening chapters of the book of Genesis to interpret the
physical origin  present status  and final destination of theEarth. The Royal Society of London
created in 1660 'for the improving of natural knowledge'  was where these bold new answers to
old questions were formulated  discussed  contested  and modified  by men such as Isaac Newton
Robert Hooke  Edmond Halley  and Thomas Burnet.

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