Exorcist

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 23 06:34:37 PDT 2000



>I don't see why science has to presuppose that the
>world is intelligible to our finite understandings and imaginations, just
>that there is order there that we can find by empirical investigation.
>
>--jks
>
>--jks

Certainly religion's prime competitive strength vis-a-vis science is that it does claim to make the world wholly intelligible. That's obviously a key reason why modern secular society creates such enormous psychic stresses despite the abundant material comforts afforded by advanced technology. I recall that as being a central argument of a book I read many years ago, Cornell historian Carl Becker's classic The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers.

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