References:

(1) Early in the Christian era, theologians began referring to nature as a book.

(2) Leading scientists — like Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, and others — began to referring to nature as a clock or more generally as a machine.

(3) Also some began to characterize the natural world as a law-governed realm and sought to discover the “laws of nature.”

(4) “Science and the Modern World” by Alfred North Whitehead.

(5) The article “DNA and other designs” by Stephen C. Meyers in the journal First Things.

(6) The information revolution officially began in 1953 when James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA and solved one of the great scientific mysteries of the ages.

This is Episode 109.