ABSTRACT
The previous chapter has set out to demonstrate the congruity between belief in the God of the Christian faith and the emerging scientific enterprise in Europe. The case has been argued that not only are science and faith compatible, but the birth of a truly modern scientific programme was dependent upon the conviction that the world owed its origin, form and continuing existence to a personal divine being. With some exceptions, this was the overwhelming consensus of the early scientists in the second half of the seventeenth century.
