Re: Scientism, faith, & knowledge

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Thu, 26 Jun 1997 19:14:30 -0400

Gene: I'm sorry, I wasn't meaning to attack you and am sorry if I appeared
to be
doing so. I was trying to be wry (and obviously failing!) I am only
trying to get at the root of your faith. While I will admit that faith
goes beyond reason, I think that you can give reasons for the faith that
you hold. I certainly think I have good reasons for having faith in
Christ and in the suitability of the scientific method. As I mentioned in
a previous post, they both have the same foundation.

Perhaps they have a similar foundation but the scientific method does not
assert that it is the ultimate truth or that its underlying assumptions
are correct. It is not an all or nothing. So I believe there is a
different faith involved in religion and in science.

Gene: I was trying (and am still trying) to discover where you think the
ultimate grounding for your being rests. Not so that I can disparage it,
but only so that I can understand where you are coming from.

I do not know where the ultimate grounding for my being rest. I know the
physical origin of my being but that is as far as my observations run.