From: jan@dekoning.ca
Date: Mon Sep 02 2002 - 16:42:06 EDT
John Burgeson writes:
> Jan wrote: "in my first year's
> basic philosophy course I learned to divide "science"= (German
> "Wissenschaft") in 14 categories, from Theology to Arithmetic, but all
> bound
> together by our relation or nob-relation to God: "From the heart are the
> issues of life.""
>
> What I see here is simply a different definition of the word "science."
> Using the word "science" to encompass all knowledge is OK, but then we
> need a word for the part that has to do only with methodological
> naturalistic investigations of the material world.
Why? "naturalistic investigations" are based on a philosophy as well, a
philosophy which is not Christian and has its own rules, rules which have
pre-suppositions as well, only they are very much hidden. For example, the
discusions on the age of the earth have several bases, depending on who you
take as your pre-decesessor. Several take Aristotle, or Plato, or .... but
all have pre-suppositions. "Naturalism" as such has a foundation as well,
but now I get into a discussion for which I do not have the time at the
moment. The closest description (in English) I know of, is Dooyeweerd's A
New Critique. If you read Dutch, read Vollenhoven or any of his followers.
Jan
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