FAITH AND SIGHT/SCIENCE

FAITH AND SIGHT/SCIENCE

 

Virgil Warren, PhD

 

           

            Science deals with the experience of recurrent natural processes in the present. The technology science uses enhances the degree and kinds of sense perception in the natural realm.

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KNOWING BY FAITH

KNOWING BY FAITH

 

Virgil Warren, PhD

 

           

Limitations of science

 

            Science has three major limitations. First, (1) science cannot deal with universals, or absolutes. It is subject to “the plague of particularity” because it is limited to the inductive approach. Science can form and test hypotheses, which are mental deductions from previous particulars; but these hypotheses are approximate, since they are based on limited previous experience. Since science cannot deal with the absolutes of universal space or eternal time, science cannot lead to an adequate understanding of “the big picture.” In short, science cannot produce a worldview. It deals more with particulars than with systematics.

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