http://www.grace.edu/newsandevents/?p=3535 Grace College and Theological Seminary Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.grace.edu/newsandevents/?p=3535&cpage=1#comment-46817 BelvaPis Fri, 09 Mar 2012 09:05:00 +0000 http://www.grace.edu/newsandevents/?p=3535#comment-46817 people of course had been making predictions about the future since the beginnings of civilization, but what was different about Laplace's boast was that it wasn't based on any claim to magical powers or even special insight that he possessed himself.  Rather, it depended only on the existence of scientific laws that in principle anyone could master.  Thus prediction, once the realm of oracles and mystics, was brought within the objective, rational sphere of modern science. people of course had been making predictions about the future since the beginnings of civilization, but what was different about Laplace’s boast was that it wasn’t based on any claim to magical powers or even special insight that he possessed himself.  Rather, it depended only on the existence of scientific laws that in principle anyone could master.  Thus prediction, once the realm of oracles and mystics, was brought within the objective, rational sphere of modern science.

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