Clark and Jain on Teaching Science

Clark and Jain write,

While we do not wish to cultivate skepticism in our students, neither do we wish to cultivate dogmatic scientism. We can make better sense of all this by recovering the language of formal cause and Causa Exemplaris. It will allow us to return to a natural science which both affirms God's covenantal presence and seeks to think his thoughts after him. It avoids the scientific determinism so prominent in the way science is conceived today. It is in this manner that a return to discussion of the four causes can lead to many profound and important conversations in biblical theology and ultimately culminate in worship.

Clark, Kevin and Ravi Scott Jain. The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education. Revised ed. Camp Hill, PA: Classical Academic Press, 2019. pg. 121