think about great intellectual coincidences of earlier periods.

人类早期智慧出现交集时的情景
Think about the seventeenth century.

想一想十七世纪的事
In the seventeenth century people figured out that

在十七世纪时人们发现了
the mechanical laws that governed the rotation of the planets

影响植物向地性的力学法则
were at least approximately the same as those that governed a clock.

竟然和影响钟摆的规则是一样的
The basic laws of Newtonian Physics were the same,

牛顿物理学的基本法则是相同的
and they thought this was a wonderful thing.

人们就觉得这是件好事儿呀
They have these completely different areas of intellectual pursuit

这些完全属于不同的学科范畴
and they turned out to be the same.

却得出了相同的结果
In the scientific revolution, it turned out they were the same.

随着科学的进步这二者得到了统一
For those people who chose to continue believing in God at that point,

当时还一直信仰上帝的人们
they thought of God now as being what?

认为上帝是谁呢