{"id":16895,"date":"2015-01-13T18:29:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T01:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=16895"},"modified":"2015-01-13T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T01:29:02","slug":"scientific-expertise-doesnt-always-guarantee-clear-thinking-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/scientific-expertise-doesnt-always-guarantee-clear-thinking-elsewhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Scientific expertise doesn&#8217;t always guarantee clear thinking elsewhere."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16896\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/1024px-Aerial_St.Pauls_Cathedral.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16896\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/01\/1024px-Aerial_St.Pauls_Cathedral-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"St. Paul's from the air\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in London<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>\u201cIn praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.\u201d<\/strong> \u00a0(W. R. Inge [1860-1954], Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, Dean of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral, famous expert on Neoplatonism and Christian mysticism)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Compare <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/01\/a-laypersons-guide-to-the-writings-of-richard-dawkins.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u201cIn praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.\u201d \u00a0(W. R. Inge [1860-1954], Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge, Dean of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral, famous expert on Neoplatonism and Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scientific expertise doesn&#039;t always guarantee clear thinking elsewhere.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; &quot;In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. 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