ECOLOGY AND ESCHATOLOGY - SCIENCE AND THEOLOGICAL MODELING

The possibility of in-breakings of God in science is discussed. A real ist philosophy of science is used as a framework in which new paradigm s are seen as providing ever better approximations to the true underly ing structure of nature, which will be revealed in the eschaton. It is argued that ecology-the study of the earth as a whole-cannot be treat ed as a natural science because there can be no paradigms for understa nding the earth as a whole. Instead technology is used as a means for interacting with God through nature.