Past authority in the natural sciences gave way to present use of reason in interpreting the data. (religion-online.org)
One consequence of this recognition of the «image of God» in human faculties, was the belief that by use of reason man could learn the natural order of things. (faith.org.uk)
Scientists and philosophers at the beginning of the modern era, to be sure, repudiated traditional metaphysics as authoritarian ideology, but they in turn fell victim to an equally insidious use of reason as technique, the manipulation of nature and other human beings for basically self - centered purposes and desires. (religion-online.org)