The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2015\u00a0Richard C. Lewontin (1929-, American evolutionary biologist, mathematician, and geneticist, Harvard University), \u201c<\/span>Billions and Billions of Demons\u201d (9 January 1997)<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
By recognizing our universe as one of law, order, and intelligence, science has driven fear from the hearts of men. Intelligence acts in intelligent ways. The intelligence at the head of all things may be trusted to act intelligently. There arises therefrom a trust in the things about us. The age-old horror, called fear, which has so long distracted humanity, vanishes. Superstition is laid low. Men come to understand better the love of God, and his offerings of goodness. Certainly, in so doing, science has contributed to religious faith.\u00a0<\/strong>\u2015 John A. Widtsoe (1872-1952, Norwegian-American biochemist and agronomist, educated at Harvard University and the Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen in Germany, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints),\u00a0Evidences and Reconciliations<\/i>, Bookcraft, 171<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Here are four quotations about science, representing quite distinct points of view, that caught my attention and that seemed to me worthy of sharing: \u00a0 \u201cThe public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not […]<\/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":[7914,17368,909,2595,2601,17288,677,2631,222,255,6231,2195,743,17365,243,117,7881],"class_list":["post-88391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david","tag-david-bentley-hart","tag-faith","tag-freeman-dyson","tag-god","tag-hart","tag-intelligence","tag-law","tag-materialism","tag-naturalism","tag-order","tag-physics","tag-religion","tag-richard-lewontin","tag-science","tag-scientism","tag-widtsoe"],"yoast_head":"\n
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