Modernity: A Rebellion Against God

By |2023-07-31T19:51:59-05:00July 31st, 2023|Categories: Christianity, Existence of God, Francis Bacon, George Stanciu, Modernity, Science|

Francis Bacon imagined a glorious future for us once our ancestors made themselves the masters and possessors of Nature; however, the ever-ascending arc of science and technology turned out to be not under human control. Physicists, neuroscientists, and computer and genetic engineers are the new sorcerer’s apprentices, having summoned great forces they can now not [...]

Francis Bacon’s “New Atlantis”

By |2019-09-03T14:27:45-05:00January 12th, 2018|Categories: Books, Christianity, Francis Bacon, Imagination, Literature, Religion, Science|

The New Atlantis is at once a fable, a work of political philosophy, and a religious text. The god that it preaches on behalf of is the humanistic god of the Enlightenment— with reason, knowledge, science, and progress as its sacred values… The spirit of the Enlightenment is vividly captured in Francis Bacon’s unfinished fable, [...]

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