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What a beautiful post, betty boop! And what an engaging sidebar! Thank you so much for the sonnet, too!

betty boop: And if you have the eyes to observe what is around you in nature, and the ears to "hear" what that means, then you can rationally, "objectively verify" the dual account we have from God Himself, revealed in the Book of Scripture (revelation by Creator), and the Book of Nature (revelation by Creation). Both accounts accord beautifully.

Indeed. There is only one Truth, but there are two revelations. When a person truly believes in God, nothing in life (including "knowledge") - makes sense in any other context.

Yet, as you suggest, since Hegel it has become unfashionable to "do" science without metaphysical blinders on. And the metaphysical naturalists would have the same blinders applied universally - from schools to currency.

PatrickHenry: I'm not evading the point. I just don't get it. Perhaps the problem is that I've never received a revelation, so I have no experience of such matters. That severely limits my ability to see what you see. All that I have to go on is what people tell me, and that's not the same thing as personally experiencing what they experience.

Indeed, PatrickHenry. When the day comes that you receive the Spiritual revelation - nothing will be the same again.

The day I receive a Spiritual revelation will probably be the day I have a heart attack..

Actually, I think God might've spoken to me once. It sounded like: Don't even bother! ;^)

When the day comes that you receive the Spiritual revelation - nothing will be the same again.

For sure. But my current grumpiness is a big part of my charm.