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Thursday, October 24, 2013

G.K. Chesterton and Richard Dawkins


I love science.

However, it is also true that scientists regularly "lose sight of the forest for the trees."

Or, they never glimpse the forest in the first place.

Absent the forest, we tend to ignore, devalue or overlook a fact "as plain as potatoes" (as Chesterton would say): 
The Whole is always greater than the sum of the parts.

Since we cannot know the fullness of The Whole in which we are embedded, I think it best to revere The Mystery - bigger that we and on which we depend.  
(Notably, "whole" and "holy" derive from the same root.)

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, one of God's names was Magnum Mysterium.

Some people dislike religion. Some people have good reason to dislike religion. 

But everyone likes a good mystery.

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"There is less difference than people think between Research and Adoration." 
Pere Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/scientific-research-as-adoration-pierre.html








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