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SCIENCE ISN'T EVERYTHING

Science gulls us into trusting it as the only explanation we need of the world because that part which it does explain, it explains brilliantly.  So brilliantly in fact that we have come to ignore the rest of the world that science cannot explain.  Or if we can't quite ignore it, we dismiss it as either nonsense that only the ill-educated or feeble-minded take seriously or a black hole of subjectivity that permits only opinion and no knowledge.

The_real_physicist_2The Real Physicist, Lawrence Gage, argues in this essay for us to remove the blinkers that we have let our love affair with science blind us to the full realm of causation in the universe.  He points out how by common sense we should recognize that the ancient Aristotelian four-fold scheme of causation more completely explains our world than modern science's reduction of everything to matter and mechanics.

Gage concludes with this sound advice:

"It strikes me that today's Christians shouldn't fall into the trap of letting the secular world dictate the terms of discussion. Instead of letting God be boxed into the Enlightenment's one-dimensional notion of causation, modern Christians should reclaim their ancient patrimony in which God (through Jesus Christ) is the atemporal cause of all that is temporal, the reason by which anything is intelligible, by which everything is, and for which it exists."

Indeed.

DOMESTIC LIFE

First thing this morning ...

The wife: "Did it rain last night?"

Me: "Yes."

The wife: "Are you sure?"

Me: "Yes."

The wife: "It doesn't look like it rained."

Me: "Look at the sidewalk and the driveway.  They're still wet."

The wife: "How do you know they're wet from rain?"

Me: "Starting at a quarter-to-four this morning about a half-inch of rain fell over the next hour or so."

The wife: "I don't think it rained last night."

Translation: "Be sure to water the lawn this weekend instead of goofing around."

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