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Chapter 4 Message: The five prevalent worldviews of today are

compared and subjected to “scientific” testing. The “Big five” are:
the Hindu, Buddhist, Judeo-Christian, Islamic, and the naturalist-

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Impact of 21 Century Science on Worldviews (Chapter 5) Error!
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Chapter 5 Message: By the time the Age of Enlightenment arrived,
scientific procedures have evolved from its early “hit or miss”

approach to the more systematic approach we call the “scientific
method”. With the arrival of the Guttenberg printing press, the

Christian Bible together with Martin Luther’s revolutionary
writings went into mass printing and were thus made accessible to
the commoners who were then able to read them over the

objections of the then autocratic Roman Catholic Church. Thus,

was triggered a dramatic shift from a monopolistic regime
whereby knowledge and teachings out of the Bible were totally
managed and controlled by the Church to a democratized regime

where any commoner could gain direct access to the Bible.
Individualized reading of the Bible opened the floodgates to new

and original textual analyses on scriptural passages that gave
birth to such new theologies as Protestantism, and generated as
well, new knowledge and scientific insights formerly inaccessible

during the Bible-reading prohibition period. Luther’s resolve to
undertake an autonomous study of Scripture despite strict

bureaucratic prohibitions was heavily influenced by the spirit of