KNOWLEDGE, SCIENCE & fAITH
- From: "g" <gillawton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:51:50 -0500 (EST)
Your intuition may, or may not, concur with the following (my own)
concerning knowledge, science and faith. You are welcome to concur or
disagree.
KNOWLEDGE consists not much in accumulation of facts, but much in making the
acquaintance of many battle scarred suppositions -- left wounded but
undispatched by the contestations of many and great minds -- together with
much by way of acquisition of skills wherewith one might undertake against
those pitiable wounded veterans a contestation now and then of one's own.
SCIENCE consists in dealing with probablies, improbablies, uncertainties
and -- rarely but occasionally
-- certainties not. The one thing it never has the good fortune to deal
with is a certainty.
FAITH consists in trust, hope and the salving of conscience, and hence deals
only with what lies beyond reach of knowledge or science. No leap of faith
can be based upon knowledge or science; for if it were then it would BE a
leap of knowledge, or a leap of science.
Knowledge, science and faith come as near to one another as do the three
vertical axes of space, yet pass through one another only where they do not
exist (at zero). And from thence each diverges, forever in search of its
own unique infinity.
No point anywhere in the whole of human experience can be located, for any
of us, except by virtue of its falling as a coordinate among all three of
these perpendiculars. Yet measurement along any one of the three axes is
separate and independent of its measure along either of the other two. And
any attempt by us to substitute the measurement along the one for a
measurement along another, is a vain exercise in error and self-delusion.
g
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