Re: Spiritual Covenant

With perfect knowledge there would be no science anymore, nor religious
faith

Mervin Bitikofer wrote:

> Pim van Meurs wrote:
>
>>
>> <quote>/Both scientists and theologians wear self-imposed blinders,
>> but at least scientists acknowledge their findings are provisional –
>> subject to change as new information is available. This is less so
>> for theologians who struggle to shove the square pegs of new
>> discoveries into the round holes of ancient insights</quote>
>>
>
> It may not be excusable on the part of theologians, but it should be
> understandable.
>
> The glory of science IS its self-claimed ephemeral nature. The glory
> of religion, or at least the object(s) of religion, is its eternal &
> absolute nature.
>
> So the only crime theologians might be guilty of is casting their net
> much too widely and including too many details in what they consider
> to be of eternal importance.
>
> It's when scientists start launching metaphysical claims from their
> naturalistic platform, and religious devotees launch scientific claims
> from religous foundations that the waters get muddied -- and yet such
> activity is inevitable (and probably good) because ultimately all
> truth is God's truth, and perfect knowledge would probably make the
> artificial (but currently useful) distinction above disappear.
Received on Sat May 20 17:55:48 2006