TACKER:  avoyager (Avo Yager)
SUBJECT: credulity
DATE:    05-Dec-07 04:49:04
HOST:    sverige

"It may be unwise to reject the sources of wisdom that have been 
traditionally found in history, philosophy, and the arts. These disciplines 
do not give us mathematical knowledge or knowledge acquired in the 
laboratory, but to say that for these reasons what they give us is not 
knowledge in any sense is to disregard the facts and to put the world of 
knowable things in a dogmatic straight jacket."

--Mortimer Adler, "The Great Conversation"

The fact that "science" cannot answer "the question", does not invalidate 
the question, or the need for an answer.

Some, and only some, essential matters can be answered and understood by 
the sciences.

Those who don't see beyond the laboratory ("there is no God") are as blind 
as those who don't see beyond faith ("there is no science/evolution") or 
who don't acknowledge either beyond their own personal limits of 
imagination and experience.

Respectfully submitted,

avo
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