https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Templeton_Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy via a career as a contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in religious and spiritual knowledge, especially at the intersection of religion and science.[3] He also sought to fund research on methods to promote and develop moral character, intelligence, and creativity in people, and to promote free markets.[4] In 2008, the foundation was awarded the National Humanities Medal.[5] In 2016, Inside Philanthropy called it "the oddest—or most interesting—big foundation around."
The John Templeton Foundation (Templeton Foundation) is a philanthropic organization that reflects the ideas of its founder, John Templeton, who became wealthy via a career as a contrarian investor, and wanted to support progress in religious and spiritual knowledge, especially at the intersection of religion and science.[3] He also sought to fund research on methods to promote and develop moral character, intelligence, and creativity in people, and to promote free markets.[4] In 2008, the foundation was awarded the National Humanities Medal.[5] In 2016, Inside Philanthropy called it "the oddest—or most interesting—big foundation around."
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As early as the 16th century, natural philosophers such as Bruno, Dee[117] and Francis Bacon[7] were attempting to rehabilitate Bacon's reputation and to portray him as a scientific pioneer who had avoided the petty bickering of his contemporaries to attempt a rational understanding of nature. By the 19th century, commenters following Whewell[118][7] considered that "Bacon ... was not appreciated in his age because he was so completely in advance of it; he is a 16th- or 17th-century philosopher, whose lot has been by some accident cast in the 13th century".[14] His assertions in the Opus Majus that "theories supplied by reason should be verified by sensory data, aided by instruments, and corroborated by trustworthy witnesses"[119] were (and still are) considered "one of the first important formulations of the scientific method on record".[73]
This idea that Bacon was a modern experimental scientist reflected two views of the period: that the principal form of scientific activity is experimentation and that 13th-century Europe still represented the "Dark Ages".[120] This view, which is still reflected in some 21st-century popular science books,[123] portrays Bacon as an advocate of modern experimental science who emerged as a solitary genius in an age hostile to his ideas.[124] Based on Bacon's apocrypha, he is also portrayed as a visionary who predicted the invention of the submarine, aircraft, and automobile.[125] Consistent with this view of Bacon as a man ahead of his time, H. G. Wells's Outline of History attributes this prescient passage to him:
This idea that Bacon was a modern experimental scientist reflected two views of the period: that the principal form of scientific activity is experimentation and that 13th-century Europe still represented the "Dark Ages".[120] This view, which is still reflected in some 21st-century popular science books,[123] portrays Bacon as an advocate of modern experimental science who emerged as a solitary genius in an age hostile to his ideas.[124] Based on Bacon's apocrypha, he is also portrayed as a visionary who predicted the invention of the submarine, aircraft, and automobile.[125] Consistent with this view of Bacon as a man ahead of his time, H. G. Wells's Outline of History attributes this prescient passage to him:
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“These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.”“And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.”“And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.”“Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.”“And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.” “Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.”“And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.”“But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.”“And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.”“And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.”“And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.”“Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.”“Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.”“For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”“For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.”
“This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:”“To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.” -Leviticus 11:31-47
“This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:”“To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.” -Leviticus 11:31-47
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“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,”
-Romans 1:22
-Romans 1:22
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