1) The 'discovery' that there was a 'moment of creation' (aka big bang) by a Vatican astronomer.
2) The fact that a particle's state is indeterminate, and physics inability to precisely define what is an observation ( in the collapsing wave sense )
Not that you're not mostly correct, but it's tough to deny that the 20th century hasn't yielded surprises to the scientists that believed the universe was static and unchanging and was capable of being described, at least in principle, by a set of natural laws.
Science has not only failed to explain, but actually proven, that it is impossible for humans to perfectly model even the smallest subset of the universe. A theist could just as easily construe this as 'proof' of a god, as an atheist could say it shows the opposite.
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1) The 'discovery' that there was a 'moment of creation' (aka big bang) by a Vatican astronomer.
2) The fact that a particle's state is indeterminate, and physics inability to precisely define what is an observation ( in the collapsing wave sense )
Not that you're not mostly correct, but it's tough to deny that the 20th century hasn't yielded surprises to the scientists that believed the universe was static and unchanging and was capable of being described, at least in principle, by a set of natural laws.
Science has not only failed to explain, but actually proven, that it is impossible for humans to perfectly model even the smallest subset of the universe. A theist could just as easily construe this as 'proof' of a god, as an atheist could say it shows the opposite.