Methodological Atheism & Our Contingent World

"The 'methodological atheism' of modern science has been part of the clue to its dazzling success. It was and is part of the recognition of contingency in the nature of things. As long as scientific thought was controlled by the idea of perfect numbers and perfect circles, or by the concept of the purposeful organism (and both of these were legacies of Greek science) - in other words, as long as it was controlled by the idea of a completely immanent rationality - the breakthrough to modern science could not occur."


Leslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks, p. 72