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Chapter 11
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What does Paine argue about the origin of scientific principles like those governing the triangle and the lever?
A
That man invented them freely, the same way he invents stories
B
That such principles were directly dictated in the Bible
C
That man cannot make principles, only discover them — the properties of a triangle or the physics of a lever existed before any human drew or used them, making science itself a form of "true theology"
D
That mathematics has no connection to the study of God
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