Comments on Crash Landing: More Catholic Than the Pope

Gene - Pick up a copy of Scientific American and w...

2006-07-26T15:21:00.000-04:00

Gene - Pick up a copy of Scientific American and witness the rank speculation and wild outlandish theories. It certainly has left the realm of verifiable science.

On a philosophical note: what is really the difference between what is beyond our comprehension and the supernatural? It seems that science, by "excluding the supernatural" is excluding anything that "can't be understood by the methods of science". Then of course it claims to be an authority of truth superior to that of religious revelation. What?

Seems like science is making a knowledge claim that it cannot support: science (natural causes or "what we can comprehend of nature") is the best apriori path to knowledge. However that claim is not subject to empirical verification. The claims of science fail even it's own standard.

It also seems to me what we hold as true or false is profoundly affected by our own moral living (witness the "science" of eugenics). "Science" is as arbitrary and capricious as any other field of knowledge, selecting evidence to believe and evidence to ignore. Man is the weak link, unfortunately. I think we need a lot more humility and perhaps (imagine that!) more religion.

Well, Araglin, you walk a fine line there -- if th...

2006-07-18T00:59:00.000-04:00

Well, Araglin, you walk a fine line there -- if the Pope says Mass should be said in the vernacular, the Church implements this, and 40 years later you still are resisting this, I'd say you're a Protestant.

Thanks, Andy, fixed the link.Gene

2006-07-18T00:55:00.000-04:00

Thanks, Andy, fixed the link.

Gene

"They are trying to be more Catholic than anyone e...

2006-07-17T11:50:00.000-04:00

"They are trying to be more Catholic than anyone else, but, in the process, wind up dismissing the decrees of the Pope, and so, in fact, have become Protestants! Weird."

Mr. Callahan,
I appreciate the humorous point which the above sentence tries to cash out, but the seeming paradox resolves itself (more or less) the moment one draws the appropriate distinction between Catholic orthodoxy on the one hand and Papal-positivism on the other. Proper respect for the (in some ways unique) teaching authority of the Petrine Office does not consist of blind submission of the intellect to whatever the current pope happens to "decree" on a given topic.

Cheers,
Araglin

Your link just goes to this blog, Gene.

2006-07-17T11:06:00.000-04:00

Your link just goes to this blog, Gene.