"The direction in which science will move is set by the philosophic world view of the scientists."
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Philosophers from the United StatesPresbyterians from the United StatesClergy from the United StatesTheologians from Philadelphia
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How Should We Then Live : The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture (1976), Chapter 1, Ancient Rome
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Francis Schaeffer
Francis August Schaeffer (30 January 1912 – 15 May 1984) was an American Evangelical Christian theologian, philosopher, and Presbyterian pastor.
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