Religion and Science
1. The Method of Argument
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refuse to acknowledge that religious phenomena
may be judged by the same intellectual procedures?
Moreover, broader-based studies have shown that
this third criterion is far from being the final one.
The truths ‘established’ by these means are mostly,
as scientists would put it, ‘technical truths’; whereas
the magnitude and complexity of the universe goes
far and beyond this. To be precise, the most
significant truths begin from the point where the
technical truths end. For instance, biological and
physiological studies of the human body certainly
reveal a large number of truths, which are
profoundly meaningful, but uppermost in the
hierarchy of truths are those, which relate to the
beginning and end of human existence, and here
our traditional studies of biology and physiology do
not help us. As a western scientist has so aptly put
it: “The knowable is unimportant and the important
is unknowable.”
To the list of criteria for acceptability, the modern
mind has added that of there being no other
explanation available, except that suggested by
whatever aspects of the given phenomenon have
