The Method for the Discovery of God

The Method for the Discovery of God It would be right to say that just as Newton’s discovery of the gravitational force happened after his moment of ‘apple shock’, similarly Galileo’s discovery of the heliocentric theory began after the ‘tele-shock’. This incident led to the beginning of modern science. In other words, it can be said that the invention of the telescope helped in bringing science to a new age. The potential utility of the telescope in gaining knowledge about the universe was first employed by Galileo. Galileo is called the father of modern science because he was able to delink one thing from the other. In this matter, the French biologist Dr Alexis Carrel writes: “Galileo, as is well known, distinguished the primary qualities of things, dimensions and weight, which are easily measurable, from their secondary qualities, form, color, odor, which cannot be measured. The quantitative was separated from the qualitative. The quantitative, expressed in mathematical language, brought science to humanity. The qualitative was neglected.” (Man, the Unknown, New York, 1939, p. 278) Although Dr Alexis Carrel has portrayed the distinction between the quantitative and qualitative aspects of things as a negative occurrence, in reality this was the reason why the scientific revolution could at all be ushered in. This delinking opened up the doors of scientific research which until now had been closed due to the influence of philosophy. After this differentiation between the quantitative and the qualitative, all scientific disciplines such as Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy started developing further. The findings in these scientific fields were not directly related to religion, but indirectly they had a very important bearing on religion. Now all disciplines of science began to be studied freely and independently. Research in these areas indirectly helped in proving God’s existence. Scientifically speaking, the above methodology of Galileo’s meant that the observable aspect of things