You’ve known me for a long time, PatrickHenry, so I hope by now you realize that I am epistemologically zealous when it comes to math and science. I am infinitely more zealous when it comes to the Word. But I have never had a problem reconciling the two.
With regard to science, my worldview can be summarized by these quotes from Einstein:
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.
And my favorite…
"The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is."
True. But I sense that this student/professor issue is a bit of a muddle for you at the moment.
With regard to science, my worldview can be summarized by these quotes from Einstein: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
Did he really say that?
And my favorite…
"The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavour in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind. To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is."Yup, that's a good one.
We have a common goal in finding answers to great questions. IMHO, our difference is perspective.
Agreed.