Rearrangement Of Sentence Test 71

A. If at one time, one knew the positions and velocities of all the particles in the universe, the laws of science should enable us to calculate their positions and velocities at any other time, past or future.
B. These laws may or may not have been ordained by God, but scientific determinism asserts that he does not intervene to break them.
C. But it was Newton’s Principia Mathematica in 1687, containing his theory of universal gravitation that made the laws quantitative and precise.
D. A qualitative understanding of the laws has been the aim of philosophers and scientists, from Aristotle onwards.
E. This led to the idea of scientific determinism, which seems first to have been expressed by Laplace.