John H. Brooke - Honorary Professor of the History of Science at Lancaster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds, john.brooke@theology.ox.ac.uk The article shows how Robert Boyle's natural theology matched with his strong Christian theism. The author demonstrates how one of the founders of experimental science gave a theological interpretation to his research set, trying to banish suspicion against science from the side of religion and at the same time to provide a religious answer to atheism using natural theology. The author believes that Boyle designed a vision of the world, which, contrary to modern stereotypes, has place for both empirical and religious faith, for both mechanical universe and faith in Providence. Keywords: natural philosophy, laws of nature, experimental science, science and religion, natural theology, theism, atheism. At the END of the 17th century, a sermon on the fallacies of atheism was preached at St. Mary-le-Bow Church in London. This sermon was unusual, because it said that modern science does not support those who deny the existence of the world. This article, in its original version, was presented on February 16 at St. Mary's Church, Aldermary, London, as the "Boyle Lecture of Goy G." Published in English in the collection Science and Religion in the Twenty-First Century. The Boyle Lectures, 2004 - 2013 L.: SCM Press, 2013. The editors thank the author for permission to publish the text in Russian translation. page 12Of god. The speaker was an excellent scientist who corresponded with Isaac Newton to keep up with the latest scientific theories. Together with Newton, he argued that the creation of the universe should be attributed to divine wisdom. This self-righteous advocate of religion was called Richard Bentley. The scholar of antiquity, Bentley, delivered the first lecture of the famous and lengthy series that later became known as the Boyle Lectures. These lectures are so called because one of England's grea ... Read more