Noesis Noeseos
2010-08-26 13:28:30
“Modern science” is not a person and does not point to anything beyond a congeries of data. Its subject matter is the contingent, things conceived as objects (bodies and/or forces operating in space). To reveal the character and pathos of humans as subjects is quite beyond the competence of the experimental method and the assumptions of naturalism. The hypotheses of empirical science are always questioning, disputing, analyzing minutely and then more minutely. Religious faith is a subjective commitment rooted in a cultural tradition directed to the beginning and the end, an infinite circle in eternity, not time and space. Some people believe; others do not; but in neither case has this anything do do with the study of the contingent.
