The Unintelligible Body: Chomsky on Galileo and Newton

January 5th, 2010 | 2 min read

In one very important sense, the scientific revolution was over before it began. At least if Noam Chomsky is right.

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Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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The Unintelligible Body: Chomsky on Galileo and Newton

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