Faith and Science

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The Internet, apart from the fact that it allows the reader to search for valuable texts – even in pdf format – is also a temptation to take intellectual ease. texts that try to portray believers as stupider than “believers in science.”

Quite a large group of undervalued people leaning on the authority of science, which they most often have not even rubbed against, thus heal their complexes resulting from spiritual neglect, combined with the lack of consent to the mediocrity of their own IQ – as if it had be any criterion of humanity.

In fact, their worldview is not scientific (there is no such worldview – just as there is no “grinding”, “drilling” or “telescopic” worldview), only “science” (read: being an ideological distortion of the proper learning).

By being more kind and calm, we can reach the following conclusions:

1. Scientific cognition (episteme) is only and exclusively a tool helping humanity to organize knowledge about the material world and to create effective tools to facilitate life. Science also helps to present the fascinating complexity of the natural world, although of course it is not a substitute for ordinary human fantasy. If science becomes something other than science, it becomes ideology.

2. In the philosophical sense, scientific cognition is based on truth (veritatis – compliance of description with facts).

3. Man’s identity (his Truth – Veritas), as well as the Universe as a certain Whole, are in no way reducible to scientific truth (veritatis).

4. Attempts to establish instrumental reason as the foundation of human identity (and the Truth about the Whole) lead to a catastrophe, presented in the Scriptures as sin (instrumentalisation of man, impoverishment of the mystery of the existence of the world, reduction to bodily affects and, as a result – the destruction of identity, the loss of reason which falls into self-denial ).

5. The correct identity of a man as a being of consciousness of a certain Whole is already what is mystical (irreducible to philosophical and scientific categories, inexpressible in terms).

6. There is no contradiction between man’s scientific knowledge and mystical faith.

7. There is a contradiction between ideological reductionisms – attempts to impoverish human life with a mystical element – and an attitude that respects both the scientific achievements and the faith of other people (or one’s own).

8. A person at peace with the world and not looking for a feud is closer to the latter attitude.

9. There are people who are wise internally and in life who do not have any scientific knowledge (which does not mean that they disregard it: they simply engage in other trades instead of science).

10. There are also literal, cut off intellectual fools who try to prove to believers the superiority of science over faith.

Maintaining the balance between faith, reason and practice, perhaps we do not contribute to perpetuating an effective vision of a man fighting in the Darwinian ring for Promethean reasons, but we effectively embody in our own existence respect for the immeasurable dignity of the human person.