It is the humility of the believing scientist, who respects the way God has made nature, studies its laws, and thereby gains the power over it that God intends humanity to have (Richard Bauckham, Living With Other Creatures: Green Exegesis and Theology [Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2011], 51).
Though he had a humble outlook in scientific empiricism, Bacon’s vision of the goal for science lacked a proper respect for God’s creation reflecting God’s glory in its own right. He studied the world in order to better understand it so that he could exploit it, not to glory in and glorify God.
Brian P. Baucom 