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February 1971
can find "ought knowledge," if wc are
willing to apply the scientific method in
a new, differeot and exciting way -
and to
ABIDE
by the laws we discover.
To do so, science must step into a
field it has refused to have anything to
do with. In order to solve the grave
social issucs confronting us,
SCTENCE
MUST BE WJLL!NG TO STEP JNTO
THEOLOGY.
"Stepping l oto Theology"
Let us explain by backing up to a
previous sectioo quoted from philoso·
pher Mortimer Adler. In that quote,
onc scction ...vas left out. lt here is
printcd in italics:
"lf u•e exclNde from
consideration the claim of
~·evealerl
1'e!i–
gion lo offer
liS
s¡¡pemclftmd gllirlctllíe
[in
the
form
of God-given
!all'.r]
...
philosophy alone, of all branches
of
knowledge, can tcll us what we ought
to scc:k
as
well as both why and how
wc ought to seek it."
But why disregard the possibility of
such supcrnatural guidance - without
putting it
to
a scientific test? Unfortu·
natcly, Dr. Adler and scientists in gen–
eral have gencrally disregarded this
possibility.
This "no-consideration" attitude is
seen C\'Cn in the natural and physical
sciences.
For example, how docs
a
scientist
answcr the questions of
\'\'HERF
matter,
energy and Jaws governing various
aspects of the physical realm carne
from?
He doesn't.
Lincoln Barnett, writer of science
books for the layman tells us: "( osmol–
ogists - (those who
try
to answcr why
the universe •s as it is and where it came
from]
for the most pan
MAINTAIN
SILENCE
on the questions of the ulti·
mate origins, leaving that issuc to the
philosophers and theology"
(The Ulli·
t'er.re
tiJUI.
Dr.
Einstei11,
p.
lOS).
James
A.
Coleman, profcssor of
H. Armslrong
Roberts
(topl
6ulovo Wolch Pholo
lbolloml
A QUESTION OF BEGINNINGS
- No one seriousfy woufd cfoim
thot o watch come together of
itseff without o human buifder.
Yet, mony iffo gicoffy cfoim the
universe, infinitefy more compfex,
come into being without o Cre·
olor.
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