Profound truth, indeed!
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I recently ran across my senior-year [1955, if you must ask... <grin>] high school yearbook, and found this recorded for posterity as my "Philosophy of Life":
"As man increases the radius
of the circle of his knowledge,
he expands by a factor of 2Pi
the circumference upon which
he touches his ignorance..."
As a physical scientist, who never tires of the thrill of discovery, I have often reveled in that relationship as "the joy of scientific exploration".
As a Christian, with personal, experiential knowledge of God the Creator, I observe that far too many of my brethren -- at the very deepest core of their belief systems -- fear that selfsame relationship as "the sin of reaching for too much worldly knowledge".
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And, it is that profound diffence in viewpoints, I despair, that fuels many of these "CREVO" threads...
Indeed.. A life of discovery then produces a dumber individual the older it gets.. When I was twenty I was quite intelligent almost a genuis, I thought.. But I have also become much dumber over the years.. and am relishing the retardation..
Quite a freeing experience I would say..
Knowledge increases my sense of "awe" over the whole thing.
Indeed, some of our Christian brothers may be troubled by the reach of science. That position is wrong insofar as science speaks only to what can be said about the physical realm - and right when scientists abuse the scientific method by broaching the metaphysical declaring that the success of methodological naturalism "proves" metaphysical naturalism.
My two cents...
