Friday, February 29, 2008

The epistemologies of science versus faith are indeed extremely controversial when pinned against one another. Science requires evidence. Faith requires solid belief. Science can be (physically) proven. Faith is basically just cognitive; it can defy logic, nature, and science. But is faith just what science can’t explain naturally (YET)? Perhaps the world as it truly is is actually very different than the world as we are capable of knowing it. Not to say that science is behind, but is it inconceivable that we just don’t have the technology to prove faith-based ideas of knowledge and reality. If evolution and natural processes have taken billions of years and comprehending these processes has taken even longer, perhaps the supernatural IS natural and possible. There’s always a loophole in science. There can be exceptions. Nothing is certain in either faith or science. The search is the same. The pathways are just different. And is there a destination; a final spot where we have acquired knowledge of all the possible, impossible, natural, supernatural, real, and "fake"? If so and we can take strides towards it, does it really matter how or what we call it?

1 comment:

David K. Braden-Johnson said...

The supernatural cannot be natural: if what we currently take as supernatural is in fact part of the natural order, then we are simply wrong.