The Soul of Science, ch. 6

Pearcey and Thaxton continue to show the trend in human knowledge to build a foundation on principles that require God's existence, grow confident in that knowledge, and then slowly decline from trusting the very foundation, namely God. This is true in mathematics. Thinkers nearly ascribed theological status to math. This led to a view of the world so ordered that it operates in mechanistic and necessarily ordered ways (and so do es God). In short order, there becomes no need for God at worst, or God is the order (pantheism) at best (if we can call it a "best"). The results are tragic.