Priest-Cosmologist Wins $1.6 Million Templeton Prize

New York Times ^ | 03/13/2008 | Brenda Goodman

[betty boop]

Thanks MHGinTN! Will check it out!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for your outstanding essay-post, dearest sister in Christ!

But Bacon misses something that Aristotle saw: that observation is limited precisely because we cannot see the whole, the context in which the visible/phenomenal things occur. As such, the scientific method as presently constituted is a very limited tool. I'm not saying it's not an important tool for the acquisition of human knowledge. But it is limited in the kinds of knowledge it can acquire, and therefore needs to be supplemented by other knowledge disciplines, preeminently philosophy and theology.

So very true and well said.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the recommendation!

[bezelbub]

Many scientists today claim that science can explain everything; which is in effect to say that the human mind, human reason is unlimited. But we know this isn't so.

Many? More than five? There is this Dawkins fellow...

But of course, most scientists never listen to philosophers telling them what they can do - and what they cannot.