Can the truth defend itself in the fight against error?

 Can the truth defend itself in the fight against error?


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If the Bible isn't all literal truth, which part is divinely inspired and which part is wrongly human?


How can the Bible be the ultimate guide to ethics and morals, even if it is a significant advance from the standpoint of science?


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What do we want from philosophy and religion?


palliative? cure? comfort?


Want a fictional story that will reassure us?


Do you want to understand the real world?


It's childish to get frustrated because the universe doesn't suit your taste. Shouldn't adults be ashamed to publish these disappointments? The fashionable way to deal with this is not to blame the universe, but rather the way we perceive the universe: science.


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"Science has taken away our religion."


- Bryan Appleyard


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What religion does he long for?


It is a religion in which 'humanity is the point, the core, the ultimate cause of the whole system, and places us clearly on the map of the universe'. He longs for 'the universe of Catholic Orthodoxy'.


What Appleyard means is that the disobedience of a woman and a man eating an apple one day after breaking an absolute taboo has turned the universe into a device that always regulates their distant descendants.


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In contrast, modern science 'presents us humans as the product of chance'. Man was created by the universe, not by man. Modern man is nothing of the ultimate and has no part in creation.


Science corrodes the mind and burns the ancient authority and tradition. In fact, he cannot coexist with anything.


Science quietly and secretly whispers to us that we give up ourselves, our true selves.


Science peels off 'the silent and strange scenery of nature'.


Humans cannot survive these revelations. The only surviving morality is a lie that soothes the heart.


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What is the obstinate disguise of certainty in an uncertain world?


Can we ascertain which of the thousands of human belief systems is problematic, universal, and essential?


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These things reveal our frustrations in the face of a vast, grandiose, especially indifferent universe.


The lesson that science has taught us is that, because of the craft of self-deception, our subjectivity does not spread its wings freely.


Science is often overly reasoned, measured, and inhumane.


The conclusions of science are obtained by interrogating nature, and are in no case designed to satisfy human needs.


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Appleyard laments moderation. He longs for infallible principles, freedom from the use of judgment, and the duty of faith rather than questioning. He did not understand the gullible nature of man. He does not recognize the need to institutionalize a mechanism for correcting errors in social institutions or cosmic views.


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Appleyard's dissatisfaction lies in the fact that in the age of science, 'the only thing we will pass on to our posterity is the conviction that nothing is true, final and lasting'.


The meager, unfounded certainty of the legacy we will leave behind.


Science has left many people in a state where they 'cannot have faith, and cannot rest without faith.'


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It is comfortable to have a unified worldview, but conflicts of opinion make us anxious and demand more of us. Unless we insist that our ancestors were perfect in spite of all the evidence, the development of knowledge requires us to unravel and re-stitch the unified worldview they had achieved.


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"The meaningless absurdity of life is the only certain knowledge allowed by man."


- Leo Tolstoy

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