Science in history -- Spring on Mount Olympus: science and Greek thought : Greek origins of science ; The Greek approach to science ; The absorption of Greek science -- The Copernican watershed : Reception of Copernicanism ; Copernicanism and the church ; Copernicanism and scripture ; Copernicanism and the plight of man -- Converging streams: science and biblical ideology : Removing the myth from nature ; The laws of nature ; The experimental method ; Controlling the earth ; To the glory of God -- Deepening waters: the Scientific Revolution : The new philosophers in seventeenth-century England ; Carving a new channel: the Newtonian universe ; Dangerous currents: nature and God -- Harnessing the river: making use of science : Practical uses of science: Nonconformists and technology ; Ideological uses of science: natural theology -- Temporary flood warning: a geological interlude : The rise of ‘flood geology’ ; The ebbing of the waters -- Troubled waters: the evolution controversy : ‘The troubled waters of evolution’ ; Theological issues at stake ; Scientific doubts ; Bridge over troubled waters -- Sacred stream: Romanticism and scientific naturalism : The worship of nature ; The worship of science -- Powerful currents: crisis in Newtonian physics : The new scientific revolution in the physical sciences ; Ideological imperatives ; Some theological impacts -- Polluting effluent: science and the environment : The case for the prosecution ; The case for the defence ; A provisional judgment -- Floodtide : Nuclear shadows ; The dignity of man ; The enduring Word.