Do scientists recognise the Judaeo-Christian roots of the scientific law concept?
Science, properly understood, and emerging from a Baconian sense of experimentation for productive ends, was practised by Sir Isaac Newton in parallel with his practise of alchemy which has pre-Judeao-Christian roots of course, in Chaldean and Babylonian practise. It is highly significant that he, Boyle and others emerge after a religious and political revolution that saw God’s supposed representative in the temporal arena, the King Charles I executed for betraying religion, leading to an emancipation of expression and printing opportunities.Ideas derived from ancient practises such as Alchemy were part of a mix that were tested alongside pragmatic scientific practise, against a background of a religious atmosphere that emphasised the gifts God gave people if they should so discover them.
