Science has been built up all along on the basis of this principle of the 'uniformity of nature,'and the principle is one which science itself has no means of demonstrating. No one could possibly prove its truth to an opponent who seriously disputed it. For all attempts to produce 'evidence'for the 'uniformity of nature'themselves presuppose the very principle they are intended to prove.' Our argument as over against this would be that the existence of the God of Christian theism and the conception of his counsel as controlling all things in the universe is the only presupposition which can account for the uniformity of nature which the scientist needs.
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