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Does science make us wise? Mankind has learned by many experiences that sciences helps to understand | Does science make us wise? Mankind has learned by many experiences that sciences helps to understand | ||
- | particular points of nature. Perhaps more, we gain a quite broad image of how parts of nature work. We do | + | particular points of nature. Perhaps more, we gain a quite broad image of how important |
+ | parts of nature work. We do | ||
not yet understand many things, but we have a concept for understanding which worked in many cases in | not yet understand many things, but we have a concept for understanding which worked in many cases in | ||
the past - and we expect it to help us to gain further insight. | the past - and we expect it to help us to gain further insight. | ||
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1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: 2 To know wisdom and instruction, | 1 The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: 2 To know wisdom and instruction, | ||
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+ | The text talks about words of wisdom - the words written in the proverbs of Solomon, son of David. He is | ||
+ | the wise king who reigned from about 970 BC. Here, one of his key points is that the fear of the Lord is | ||
+ | the beginning of knowledge, and that fools despise wisdom and instruction. | ||
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+ | How does this fit to our modern understanding? | ||
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- | ** Righteousness and Equity | + | ** Fear of the Lord ... ** |
+ | Is the experiment the beginning of knowledge? Is the ability of humans to search and to think | ||
+ | the beginning of knowledge? Where does knowledge start? Or does the author just talk about knowledge | ||
+ | of a particular kind, of ethical knowledge perhaps? | ||
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+ | From the list of points given to us in the text above, the word " | ||
+ | It is about a man or woman learning, growing in understanding. It is about both wisdom of the mind and | ||
+ | wisdom of life. It is not a purely mental knowledge, not just one element of the human mind. It talks | ||
+ | about the whole human, about our whole life with all its parts and layers! | ||
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+ | I do not see any point of constructing a contradiction of the above passage with science or our | ||
+ | understanding of nature. It strongly integrates our human ability to listen to each other and take | ||
+ | up the knowledge gained by other people - to receive wisdom and instruction. That has become a major | ||
+ | part of our scientific development. Of course, the wisdom Solomon talks about is much wider and | ||
+ | addresses our whole life. Here, it is good to listen, to the author of the proverbs as well as to | ||
+ | Jesus and his disciples in the New Testament. There is a lot to gain! It is important to start to | ||
+ | realize that there is God, who wants to talk to you and to me. We should start to listen to him! | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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