The beautiful and the sublime in natural science. Walhout, P. K Zygon, 44(4):757–776, 2009.
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The various aesthetic phenomena found repeatedly in the scientific enterprise stem from the role of God as artist. If the Creator is an artist, how and why natural scientists study the divine art work can be understood using theological aesthetics and the philosophy of art. [....] Scholarship in theological aesthetics has recently argued that the modem and postmodern elevation of the sublime over beauty is merely a preference that reveals a bias against transcendence—against God. If doing and understanding science can show this sundering of the sublime from the beautiful to be in error, science also gives evidenceof transcendence.
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	title = {The beautiful and the sublime in natural science},
	volume = {44},
	issn = {0591-2385},
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	abstract = {The various aesthetic phenomena found repeatedly in the scientific enterprise stem from the role of God as artist. If the Creator is an artist, how and why natural scientists study the divine
art work can be understood using theological aesthetics and the philosophy
of art. [....] Scholarship in theological aesthetics has recently argued that the
modem and postmodern elevation of the sublime over beauty is merely a preference that reveals a bias against transcendence—against God. If doing and understanding science can show this sundering of the sublime from the beautiful to be in error, science also gives evidenceof transcendence.},
	number = {4},
	urldate = {2015-06-30},
	journal = {Zygon},
	author = {Walhout, Peter K},
	year = {2009},
	keywords = {Aesthetics, God -- Proof, Empirical, God -- Transcendence, Science -- Philosophy, Science and religion},
	pages = {757--776},
}

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